The number of online job postings appears to have stabilized, according to a new report.
The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series found that during July, advertised vacancies increased by 700 to 3,295,500. Following large declines during December 2008 and January of this year, online job demand has remained relatively flat. Overall, there were more than four unemployment people for every online advertised vacancy.
“Online job demand has held relatively steady at around 3.3 million advertised vacancies per month for the last six months,” Gad Levanon, senior economist at The Conference Board, said. “While we are not seeing declines, the sluggish nature of labor demand is another indication that the path to recovery is likely to remain a long haul.”
The South showed the most positive development in advertised job postings, while most places in the Northeast and Midwest remained mostly unchanged, and openings in the West continued to decline.
When it comes to occupations, sales and related occupations and management experienced the largest increases in advertised vacancies, with increases of 11,700 and 9,400, respectively.
Among the top 10 occupations with online advertised vacancies were arts, design, entertainment, sports and media, which increased by 4,400 to 102,600; healthcare support, which increased by 3,300 to 101,100; and computer and mathematical occupations, which increased by 1,100 to 387,800.
The top 10 occupations with decreases in job demand included healthcare practitioner and technical, which decreased by 3,700 to 518,400; business and financial, which decreased by 5,100 to 177,600; architecture and engineering, which dropped by 4,000 to 117,700; and administrative support, which declined by 1,700 to 339,,600.
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