“Help Wanted” Ads Surge 438K

• Posted by ToddSullivan
• on January 31st, 2011

“Davidson” submits:

The Conference Board released the Jan 2011 Help Wanted Online Index with an improvement of 438,000. In the report June Shelp, Vice President at The Conference Board, said,

“The very strong seasonal gain to start 2011 is welcome news following seven months of essentially flat U.S. labor demand. Last year, after a promising start (up about 350,000 in January 2010), labor demand fizzled, and the last half of 2010 was actually flat with no appreciable gains in job demand.

Hopefully the January 2011 increase suggests that employers are seeing a pickup in their businesses and labor demand will continue to improve throughout this year.”

I continue to view this as positive for further economic improvement.

The press release is available at the link: http://www.conference-board.org/pdf_free/princessi.pdf

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