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Recent Posts
Employment Services Industry Data Signals December Employment Growth
The Employment Services industry has been growing over the past 4 months, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is important because over the past 20 years, the Employment Services industry has lead the rest of the economy both ...
Those Pesky Revisions – The Effect of BLS Revisions on NonFarm Forecasts
There were two important pieces of information in this month's BLS Employment Situation Summary. First, Nonfarm Employment dropped by only 11,000 – much better than Consensus Estimate that sat at -100,000 and our forecast of -155,000. Second, e...
Advertiser Watch – UPS, 1-800-Flowers, LaBarge, Wells Fargo, Oracle
Every week, WANTED Technologies produces what's called a "Gazelles Report". The Gazelles Report list companies who have triggered a Gazelles alert. A Gazelle alert is triggered when a company has posted significantly more jobs in the past 4 weeks tha...
Preliminary report from BLS shows decline of 11,000 jobs in November (Updated)
Employment fell by a mere 11,000 jobs in November, according to today's preliminary report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a much smaller loss than consensus estimates. The largest job losses were in construction, manufacturing, and information...
UI Claims Improving on Steady Hiring Demand Trend
The Department of Labor announced this morning another drop in the number of new UI claimants. This week, there were 5,000 fewer claims on a SA basis (seasonally adjusted). This comes after last week's impressive (or surprising) drop of 39,000 claima...
Forbes List of "America\'s Fastest-Recovering Cities" – Not a Good List for Job Seekers
Forbes Magazine released an article of "America's Fastest-Recovering Cities" on November 19th, also producing a ranked list of America's 100 fastest recovering cities. Unfortunately for Forbes readers, the list contains methodological issues which li...

