JobsInTheUS.com Third Quarter 2007 Employment Index Results Show Growth Trend Continues
JobsInTheUS.com (JIUS) combined Employment Index for Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island reported 35,163 job openings, an increase of 16.7 percent, for the Third Quarter 2007. Healthcare continued to be the leading industry for recruitment postings along with customer support, followed by manufacturing, sales and clerical, respectively.
Journal Register Company (NYSE: JRC), parent company of JobsInTheUS.com, owns and operates 19 JIUS Web sites including JobsInMS.com (Mississippi), JobsInAL.com (Alabama), JobsInME.com (Maine), JobsInNH.com (New Hampshire), JobsInVT.com (Vermont), and JobsInRI.com (Rhode Island), to name a few.
All results are year-over-year comparisons of Third Quarter 2007 versus Third Quarter 2006 in the four northeastern states of Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Third Quarter 2007 Summary
JobsInTheUS.com is the largest internet job site in these states. With 35,163 job openings this Quarter and approximately 1.5 million searches conducted, the Company is in a unique position to monitor and report employment trends in the Northeast. The JobsInTheUS.com Jobs Index is a statistical summary of the data compiled for the Third Quarter and identifies key trends based on job openings posted, searches performed and key metrics from the Web site.
Healthcare continues to be the leading industry with 12,084 job openings, up 182 percent from Third Quarter 2006. Customer support was the second highest category with an increase of 58 percent.
Significant Job Trends for Third Quarter 2007:
-- Healthcare positions accounted for 16.6 percent of all job openings
-- Customer Support tallied 7.6 percent
-- Manufacturing reached 7.0 percent
-- Sales were 5.3 percent
-- Clerical was 4.6 percent
-- Companies with 50 or fewer employees posted 41.9 percent of the job
openings
-- Companies with 101-250 employees accounted for 16.5 percent
-- Companies with 51-100 employees posted 13.8 percent
-- Full time positions reported 73.9 percent of job openings, with part-
time positions amounting to 19.2 percent of job openings and contract or
per diem openings at 6.9 percent
