NEW YORK – About 4,457,200 online job postings appeared on leading Internet job boards in November, up 47,400 from October, The Conference Board reported today.
“In November, demand for workers continued to be positive, albeit moving at a disappointingly slow pace for the last few months,” said June Shelp, vice president at The Conference Board. “November was a surprisingly quiet month throughout the nation, with most states posting small gains / losses in advertised vacancies. In this weak U.S. economic recovery, office help, construction jobs, and positions in business and finance continue to show very sluggish growth."
The gap between the number of unemployed and advertised vacancies (supply/demand rate) was 3.37 unemployed for every advertised vacancy in October (the last available unemployment data), down from a peak of 4.73 in October 2009.
