Tuesday 7 October 2008

More evidence of tightening labour markets

I think we can see a clear trend in the number of unfilled vacancies. Since the beginning of the year, the trend is definitely downwards. It is more evidence of an approaching recession.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excuse the predictable question, but what happens when you subtract all those worthless public sector jobs.

For a long time the US BLS numbers have been massaged by creating makework government jobs and we know Brown isn't above that.

Nick

AC said...

I always use this site to check the state of the IT jobs market. It's very boom and bust and seems to follow the FTSE100:

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/