Online Job Postings Up 255,000 in December
Posted by Katrina Paglierani on Thu, Jan 07, 2010 @ 09:04 AM
Well, it is nice to post something positive in 2010 about potential return to work possibilities. National Job Finders does not use online job postings to find open positions for injured workers, but I watch this as an indicator of hiring overall. This bodes well for the potential openings we can locate for injured workers with restrictions as well. Afterall, only a very few open positions are actually advertised anywhere, over 80% are not.
If you would like to look into this information in more detail, please visit the link below to see information on a particular state or industry. I note that Michigan, the state where we do much of our workers compensation job finding is still struggling. Though the postings are up, they have not caught up with the loss they suffered in Nov. Despite these discouraging numbers, we have consistently been able to successfully find open, suitable, and acceptable positions for the injured worker cases in Michigan and elsewhere.
Also available at this link is a specific look at the posted jobs in relation to the number of unemployed in that industry. Here we see that there are more jobs posted than unemployed in the healthcare industry and computer & mathematical science. In all others, this is not the case.
The transportation and material moving industry shows the highest ratio of unemployed to open positions at 13 unemployed per posted position. This is one of the industries from which we see most of our job finding cases. Others are manufacturing and construction.
www.conference-board.org/economics/helpwantedOnline.cfm.