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April 2012: The 10 Best (and Worst) Cities for Finding a Job
By: CareerCast.com
Springing in to a new career was a challenge for most job seekers in April as hiring levels sank in most cities across the U.S. Only three cities saw an increase in hiring, including Louisville (+6%), Nashville (+3%), and Seattle (+3%). The cities that saw the greatest hiring losses in April were in the East, including Washington, D.C., which was the big loser with a drop of 8%, followed by Baltimore and Cleveland (-6%) and Hartford (-5%).
Read MoreApril 2012: Hiring Activity Falls Sharply
By: CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index
After two months of positive employment gains, hiring across the U.S. fell hard in April, according to the CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index. Employment activity plunged 15.3-points last month to end at 101.3. The overall index didn’t fare well year-over-year either, with a 9-point drop from April 2011. Fortunately, employment activity has still come a long way since April 2009.
Read MoreMarch 2012: The 10 Best (and Worst) Cities for Finding a Job
By: CareerCast.com
The start of spring has heated up some job markets more quickly than others. Memphis (+14%), St. Louis (+13%) and Tampa (+12%) were the hiring activity winners for March with Los Angeles, Miami , San Diego , and Nashville all posting gains of +10% as well. Only three cities saw a loss in managerial hiring in March, Detroit (-7%), Milwaukee(-5%) and Cleveland (-3%), and all of them had had double-digit gains in February.
Read MoreMarch 2012: Hiring Continues to Improve
By: CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index
As the nation welcomes spring and warmer weather, job seekers are welcoming the uptick in hiring numbers in March. According to the CareerCast.com/JobSerf, the U.S. hiring activity jumped 9.9 points during March to a total score of 116.9 and its highest peak since the Index launched in 2008. This is the second month of a hiring surge and encouraging news for the long-term recovery in the job market.
Read MoreFebruary 2012: The 10 Best (and Worst) Cities for Finding a Job
By: CareerCast.com
Cities across the country are finally seeing some positive gains in job activity. In February, only a handful of cities had a decline in hiring activity. Los Angeles (-7%), San Francisco (-5%) and Riverside (-5%) and Baltimore (-5%) had a loss of hiring activity, while Detroit (+19%), Cleveland (+16%), Louisville (+16%) Milwaukee (+15%), Houston (+11%), Philadelphia (+12%) and Washington, D.C. (+10%) had double-digit gains.
Read MoreFebruary 2012: Employment Activity Picks Up
By: CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index
Job seekers were feeling the love in February as hiring jumped 12-points to 107, according to the CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment index. The February 2012 Index, which measures managerial hiring activity online, also showed a sizeable gain over the past two years, with an increase of 23.7 points from the February 2010 Index.
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