{"id":1649,"date":"2008-07-07T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/online-ads-down-again\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:03:54","slug":"online-ads-down-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/online-ads-down-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Ads Down Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure the implications of this information, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/07\/jobs-online.html?partner=rss\">Inc.com reported<\/a> that the sheer number of online ads has decreased from last month and last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>Some 3.8 million job openings were advertised online last month, or about 2.5 vacancies for every 100 persons in the labor force, according to data compiled from 1,200 Web-based job boards. That&#8217;s down from 2.9 vacancies per 100 persons in May, and 11.2 percent below a year ago, the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain what data is used in compiling the number, but I have to think Craig&#8217;s List, LinkedIn and Facebook are having some effect on the overall numbers.\u00a0 Many niche boards are also sprouting up.\u00a0 Whatever the factors, the hiring pace has slowed down.\u00a0 Remember, hiring is a trailing indicator so the economy may be rebounding while the hiring numbers show decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 reported this week. Some 3.8 million job openings were advertised online last month, or about 2.5 vacancies for every 100 persons in the labor force, according to data compiled from 1,200 Web-based job boards. That&#8217;s down from 2.9 vacancies per 100 persons in May, and 11.2 percent below a year ago, the report said. I&#8217;m not certain what data is&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/online-ads-down-again\/\">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":[49,2,5],"tags":[840,50,839],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-hiring","category-trends","tag-conference-board","tag-hiring-trend","tag-online-job-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-qB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1217,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/online-job-postings-continue-to-rise\/","url_meta":{"origin":1649,"position":0},"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":1494,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/online-job-ads-decrease\/","url_meta":{"origin":1649,"position":1},"title":"Online Job Ads Decrease","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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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":880,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/where-the-ads-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":1649,"position":3},"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":1046,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/summer-is-here-ads-are-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":1649,"position":4},"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. One word - summer.\u00a0 The\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":1552,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/online-job-movement\/","url_meta":{"origin":1649,"position":5},"title":"Online Job Movement","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The online job posting statistics provide a look at general hiring trends...I think.\u00a0 My question is always in regards to which online boards are being tracked.\u00a0 We are seeing a marked migration away from the big boards to the still-developing niche boards. 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