Mountain View, Calif. (PRWEB) April 28, 2009 -- Simply Hired, the largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network, today released a trend report on active job listings in Q1 2009. Aggregating job content from more than three million job listings per month from January 1 to March 31, 2009, Simply Hired outlined job trends by geography, industry and demand among job seekers.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment continued to decline sharply last month, with the nationwide unemployment rate rising from 8.1 to 8.5 percent. This means that an increasing number of job seekers are looking for a limited number of positions. Simply Hired’s Q1 2009 report reveals that:
Simply Hired also found that the top active job listings included keywords such as “part-time,” “sales,” “accounting” or “finance.” Available jobs in Washington D.C. were up by 14 percent, with a smaller, yet still positive five percent upswing of available jobs in Boston and San Diego. Among the active jobs in these areas were health diagnosis and treatment practitioners, sales representatives and engineers. Truck driver, sales representative and business analyst jobs became more available -- as denoted by an increase in related listings by 45 percent, 12 percent and eight percent, respectively -- to job seekers, while cashier and administrative assistant jobs dwindled, marked by a corresponding five percent and three percent drop in listings.
About Simply Hired:
With more than 5 million job listings worldwide and more than 5,000 job search partners, Simply Hired (SimplyHired.com) is the largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network. The company has exclusive partnerships with MySpace and LinkedIn as well as the largest set of professional applications on Facebook. The company has international sites in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Germany, Spain and France. Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the “50 Coolest Websites” by Time magazine and declared “Best of the Web” by Business Week. Simply Hired has raised $17.7M in funding from News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media, Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures and individual investors. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.