online help wanted ads up 28% from last year
November 30th, 2006
EMarketer has published a must-read for the Internet recruiting crowd, entitled “Help Wanted Online.”
… there were 2.5 million new help wanted ads posted on job search sites or through online newspaper ads [in Oct.], up 28% from a year earlier.
According to comScore Networks, one in four (24%) visitors to career Web sites (including job hunting sites) have annual household incomes over $100,000 and over half (55%) have household incomes of at least $60,000.
Click here for the entire article.
December 4th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
This data is always helpful, but the difficulty is, yet again, in the metrics. Companies can measure yield (somewhat well) from sources, but can we understand in the aggregate what the proliferation on online ads does does to the industry?