JobsInNH.com’s State Employment Index: Job Growth Strengthens in 3rd Quarter

Every month the web site release an employment index based on the traffic on the site. This reveals employment trends within the state and the industries experiencing growth.

WESTBROOK, ME (PRWEB) October 18, 2005 -- JobsInNH.com is the largest Internet job site in the state. With over 3,700 jobs being posted each month and more than 100,000 searches being done, we are in an advantageous position to monitor and report on the employment trends within the state with data available on a county level. The JobsInNH.com Jobs Index is a monthly statistical summary of the data compiled. The Index identifies key trends based on job openings posted, searches performed by job seekers and key metrics from the web site. Taken together they offer a unique perspective into the key trends for employment in New Hampshire.

Job Trends:

The following are the significant trends for the month of September 2005:

- The number of job openings during this month (2,460) is down slightly (4%) from August, but up both 26% from July and 50% from the 2nd Quarter’s average.

- A majority of the new job openings during September were in Rockingham County (32% of all jobs posted), Hillsborough County (24%) and Strafford County (21%).

- Job openings activity covered a number of job types:

- Manufacturing (21.9% of all jobs posted)

- Construction (6.7%)

- Sales (6.4%)

- Healthcare (5.8%)

- Customer Support (5.7%)

- Banking/Finance (4.7%)

- Clerical (4.4%)

- Fifty-five percent of the job openings posted were from companies with fewer than 50 employees – more than 5% above last month.

- Seventy-eight percent of the job openings during September were for full-time positions, down slightly from 83% in August.

- 17% were part-time

- 5 % were contract or per diem

Job Search Trends:

The following are the significant trends for the month of September 2005:

- The number of qualified searches (job seeker used specific parameters to search for a position) was 90,781--up slightly from the 2nd quarter average

- The top job categories searched by job seekers were:

- Healthcare (9.1% of all qualified searches)

- Clerical (8.6%)

- Accounting (7.5%)

- IT positions (5.4%)

- Manufacturing (4.8%)

- Banking/Finance (4.6%)

- Thirty-nine percent of the qualified searches also contained a geographic preference:

- Rockingham County (30.3% of qualified searches)

- Hillsborough (20.3%)

- Strafford (16.8%)

- A majority of the job seekers prefer to look for positions within close proximity to their homes. The commuting preference for job seekers was:

- 1-30 miles - 56%

- 31-40 miles - 19%

- > 40 miles - 25%

Web Site Trends:

JobsInNH.com had 181,057 unique visits for the month. The 3rd quarter average was 185,327 unique visits. Time per visit increased slightly at 10 minutes, 3 seconds per visit. During an average visit, a job seeker will download 9.4 pages.

About JobsInTheUS.com

Founded in 1999 and privately owned, JobsInTheUS.com is the parent company of the fastest-growing local job Internet sites – both in terms of unique visits to the Web sites and number of jobs posted: JobsinME.com with more than 340,000 unique visits monthly and more than 7,000 job postings in Maine; JobsinNH.com with more than 180,000 unique visits monthly and over 3,700 job postings in New Hampshire; JobsinVT.com with close to 80,000 unique visits monthly and over 1,300 job openings in Vermont; and JobsInRI.com with nearly 95,000 unique visits monthly and nearly 800 job postings in Rhode Island. Headquartered in Westbrook, Maine, the company specializes in state-specific job Internet sites where qualified candidates who want to work in a particular region find a match with local employers at a lower cost for employers than other recruiting methods.

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