Thursday, May 17, 2012

Online job postings continue to rise in Texas - Austin Business Journal:

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The nonprofit business information firmfounfd 11,300 additional online job postings in Texas last monthg compared with April. That brings the total number of ads to There wereabout 3.7 unemployed Texans for every job ad, less than the 4.4 rati for the country as a whole. Californi had the most new job ads inMay (31,000) for a totalk of 384,000 ads. New York had 20,000 new ads for a totakl of 208,000. Only four states had more new job ads than Texaalast month. In Austin there were 26,200 total online job ads last upfrom 23,200 in April. But the number of ads remainws less than half of the total forMay 2008. Accordinyg to the Conference Board data, there are 2.
5 unemployed Austinite s for everyavailable job. online advertised vacancies rose 250,000 to 3.4 million last month. It was the firsgt increase in postings since the financiaol crisis explodedin October. Job postings don’tr necessarily imply increasedemployment — the reporg doesn’t include information on whether the availabls work force is qualified to fill the open

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