Comments on: Indeed’s New Industry Trends Point To Where The Jobs Are

By: sue

sue — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:53:20 +0000

SUPER interesting article. We hear all the time that IT and HEALTHCARE are the two ‘bullet-proof’ jobs. That being said, unfortunately most people are taking pay cuts or working part time in almost all fields now, whether it’s a true company-in-trouble downsize or a fake one where the company decides to USE the recession to shed workers just because they can. Make sure you have plan B in place. Check out http://www.iget2work.com for professions lists, humor and stories about finding all kinds of work. Work takes up 80% of our lives … so make it good! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

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Find Jobs in Canada in this Economic Climate « High Quality Job Resources — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:34:14 +0000

[...] Techcrunch Looking at the above chart, all industries are hiring lesser staff, some less than others. IT job [...]

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:58:53 +0000

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By: Andrew Mulvenna

Andrew Mulvenna — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:32:07 +0000

Here in the UK, employers looking to recruit have few places to advertise and often become slaves to expensive recruitment consultants.

Where do you think we should post?? (In addition to the UK TechCruch job board, of course)

Looking for entrepreneurial programmers to work on seriously brilliant SaaS stuff http://rurl.org/18g2

By: Mikey T

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By: Where are the jobs? « New England Malayalee Association’s blog

Where are the jobs? « New England Malayalee Association’s blog — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:21:02 +0000

[...] Even so, IT job listings are down 43 percent from a year ago. Again, healthcare is holding up the best with only an 8 percent decline. Job postings in banking and financial services are down 48 percent (to 144,569), and media and newspaper job listings are down 47 percent (with only 24,104 postings)[Read the whole article in TechCrunch]. [...]

By: Fiz

Fiz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:58:35 +0000

Correction. An engine is rather misleading. We are more of a repository, a universal one.

Regarding your comment about Indeed’s “What” box, the disadvantage of that approach is that sometimes users do not know what to search for.

Valnur, on the hand, allows structured filters and in some way guides the users as they refine their search.

Here’s a link to an example ‘filteration’:

http://tinyurl.com/d8zr46

By: Fiz

Fiz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:36:19 +0000

If you read our “About” page, we are a bottom-up engine ala Wikipedia.

By: Fiz

Fiz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:22:17 +0000

Here is a more accurate link to the feature of my website that I am referring to whereby users can specify unlimited number of filters made up from non-predefined categories:

http://tinyurl.com/d8zr46

Eventually as the index grows using the filters would easily assist users in finding exactly what they want.

By: Where are all the jobs? Indeed Knows.

Where are all the jobs? Indeed Knows. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:14:32 +0000

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By: tom

tom — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:26:16 +0000

Stupid people claim that outsourcing technology work is cheap and saves the company money.
The pitfalls are numerous: Angry dissatisfied customers, lots of rework on work that needed to be completed by the overseas talent, communication issues (language), timezone differences, intellectual property theft from employees stealing all your ideas and going into business for themselves, cultural differences, etc. It’s a HUGE minefield that ends up being more expensive in goodwill and money than your original “expensive” employees.
The reality is these outsourcing companies compete on cost not quality so when these morons run your business into the ground with their shoddy work did you really save any money?

By: Where the Jobs Are In 2009…02.18.09 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:17:53 +0000

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Morning Edition - Feb 18, 2009 « Sazbean — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:03:22 +0000

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By: Spaggie

Spaggie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:40:35 +0000

wow, that’s cool

By: Analytics

Analytics — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:21:37 +0000

What kind of fool considers “clicks” to be a valuable metric?

I’m no analytics expert but that’s just stoopid!

By: JobSearcher

JobSearcher — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:05:47 +0000

Counties, states and federal government post jobs, but when you go to actually apply, they are for a standing register. They are taking resumes now in case any jobs open up later.

By: Jobseeker

Jobseeker — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:13:47 +0000

You bring up a good point, Chris, but I think that Indeed takes care of this. They seem to be able identify duplicate jobs. I just did a search (http://www.inde...pringfield%2Cma) and they only show 1 result but they let me know that there were similar job postings that they had removed. One of these was another posting for the same job in a different city and the others were duplicates like you mentioned.

If they can do that during a search, they can probably do the same for their metrics.

By: Jobsearch

Jobsearch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:24:04 +0000

“Like for instance, a user wants to find a Software Developer… C#, PHP, Java, knowledge in Linux OS…”

Just thought I would point out, this is what the “What” box if for on Indeed. You can add endless criteria to narrow a search, or use the more simplified advanced search option. Interesting comment from “Friz”, from Valnur. That “engine” doesn’t seem to have anything in it’s index.

By: Fiz

Fiz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:18:22 +0000

Hover over my name for the link

By: Indeed、求人状況を掲載するIndustry Trendsページを開設

Indeed、求人状況を掲載するIndustry Trendsページを開設 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:09:42 +0000

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By: Mort

Mort — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:41:05 +0000

“Like for instance, a user wants to find a Software Developer job in Banking industry where the job requires certifications in ABC and XYZ, programming skills proficiency such as C#, PHP, Java, knowledge in Linux OS, and so on and so forth up to an UNLIMITED number of criteria.”

That’s where we are, of course. Tech fields are so glutted with immigrants due to the business lobby/Congress complex that it is meaningless to say employers are looking for IT people, or programmers. They are looking for people with “programming skills proficiency such as C#, PHP, Java, knowledge in Linux OS, and so on and so forth up to an UNLIMITED number of criteria.”

Healthcare is a good field because if you get sick they got you by the nuts. Mortician and embalming is steady work, but apparently somewhat glutted according to a co-worker who has the education, but can’t find a job in his field.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:37:03 +0000

Yes, I’m sorry. In trying to clear up one confusion, I totally created another one. By “jobs,” I definitely meant “job postings.”

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:52:18 +0000

That is what the data shows. If you know different, why don’t you back up your BS claim?

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:49:34 +0000

No, it says there are 395,629 job postings in the IT industry. The actual number of existing jobs in the IT industry is in the millions.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:00:11 +0000

PGP is right. These numbers can be misleading if you confuse “industry” for “job type.” This isn’t saying that there are 395,629 jobs for IT workers — it’s saying that there are 395,629 jobs in the IT industry. Big difference. IT workers work in all those industries.