{"id":1494,"date":"2008-04-02T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/online-job-ads-decrease\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:28:02","slug":"online-job-ads-decrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/online-job-ads-decrease\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Job Ads Decrease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No question the economy is slowing down so <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/leadership\/careers\/2008\/03\/31\/conference-board-vacancies-lead-careers-cx_sm_0331jobs.html?feed=rss_leadership_careers\">this article from Forbes.com<\/a> is not surprising:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Conference Board found there was a total of 3,733,200 online-advertised job vacancies, a 0.6% decline from March 2007 and the first year-on-year fall in total numbers since the index began in 2005. The Board said the decline reflects a slowing in annual growth in 42 states, with 14 states showing negative growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I know, the index is only a few years old, but there is enough data to show the present-day trend.\u00a0 Here is some anecdotal information from the survey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The online-ad volume in California dropped 118,000, or 19%, below its March 2007 level. The volume of online-advertised vacancies in Florida (217,100) was 15% lower than the March 2007 level, while the volume in Texas (336,900) was up 8% and ads in New York (275,800) were up slightly (1.4%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would still caution against buying into the media hype about the &#8220;plummeting economy.&#8221;\u00a0 The economy is dynamic so there are always going to be down cycles like the one we are in now.\u00a0 However, some of the discussions are borderline ridiculous.\u00a0 I read part of an article the other day stating that we are heading into another 1930&#8217;s era depression.\u00a0 The hyperbole that surrounds economic reporting stills astounds me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No question the economy is slowing down so this article from Forbes.com is not surprising: The Conference Board found there was a total of 3,733,200 online-advertised job vacancies, a 0.6% decline from March 2007 and the first year-on-year fall in total numbers since the index began in 2005. The Board said the decline reflects a slowing in annual growth in 42 states, with 14 states showing negative growth. Yes, I know, the index is only a few years old, but there is enough data to show the present-day trend.\u00a0 Here is some anecdotal information from the survey: The online-ad volume in California dropped 118,000, or 19%, below its March 2007&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/online-job-ads-decrease\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[49,26,1748,336,485],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends","tag-economy","tag-employment-ads","tag-hiring","tag-job-boards","tag-online-ads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-o6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1005,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/advertised-vacancies-up-29-in-past-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":1494,"position":0},"title":"Advertised Vacancies Up 29% In Past Year","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"June 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"As I was searching the web this morning came across an interesting site for The Conference Board. The company is \"the world's preeminent business membership and research organization.\" They have been around for 90 years and are best known for the Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1649,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/online-ads-down-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":1494,"position":1},"title":"Online Ads Down Again","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure the implications of this information, but Inc.com reported that the sheer number of online ads has decreased from last month and last year. The number of new jobs posted online in June was unchanged from May, marking the fourth straight month of year-over-year declines, the Conference Board\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/where-the-ads-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":1494,"position":2},"title":"Where The Ads Are","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Newspaper circulation continues its precipitous decline.\u00a0 However, online employment ads have increased 24% from last April according to this Inc.com article.\u00a0 Surprisingly, I talked to a company last month that did not believe online job ads were the way to go.\u00a0 Their plan - post sales ads in the printed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1217,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/online-job-postings-continue-to-rise\/","url_meta":{"origin":1494,"position":3},"title":"Online Job Postings Continue To Rise","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Career News newsletter (sorry, no link): In September 2007 there were 4,270,000 online advertised vacancies, an increase of 165,200 or 4 percent from the August 2007 level, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series released October 1, 2007. In September, 2,934,100 of the 4,270,000 unduplicated online\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1819,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/online-job-ads-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":1494,"position":4},"title":"Online Job Ads Down","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"December 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently\u00a0Cheezhead mentioned that online job ads are down again in November.\u00a0 According to the Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series online job postings declined 70,200 to 4,369,200 in November.\u00a0 Job postings for the September to November period\u00a0were down\u00a0264,000. The data they collected shows declines in the Northeast, the South and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1046,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/summer-is-here-ads-are-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":1494,"position":5},"title":"Summer Is Here &#8211; Ads Are Down","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From Inc.com's Online Job Ads Down: The number of new job ads posted online fell by 94,000 to 4,280,400 in June, the Conference Board reported on Monday. Despite the decline, online job ads were up 24 percent in the past 12 months, the report said. 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