Demand for recruiters has decreased by 30% from a peak in the fall of 2010. Based on jobs aggregated and analysed by NimbleCat, recruiter hiring increased by almost 30% from April to September of last year. It has declined since November to April, 2010 levels. This may well indicate that many companies have completed the expansion of their staffing teams for the moment.
An article in the Wall Street Journal confirmed the increase in hiring last fall based on interviews with recruiters and an analyis of the titles of jobs aggregated by Indeed. Skip to the end of this post for my plug on why NimbleCat's numbers are more accurate and timely than those from Indeed :-)
IT professionals, project managers and product managers were in high demand in January, as they have been in previous months. In contrast, human resources and marketing professionals continue to be in the top ranks of job seekers. To reinforce the opening paragraph of this post, 10% of all resumes and social profiles aggregated by NimbleCat in January were for recruiters.
So, why are NimbleCat's numbers likely to be more reliable than those supplied by Indeed for the WSJ article?
Indeed gets numbers like those reported in the WSJ by looking for keywords in job titles. NimbleCat identifies and analyses the relevant parts of the job description, omitting boiler plate text and ads. Our scoring engine then classifies jobs into one of the many job categories that it is trained to recognize. And we analyse and aggregate jobs in real time so we can report what happened yesterday, last week or last month.
NimbleCat aggregates jobs, resumes and social profiles to provide its people and job search services. All this functionality is available from Facebook apps, so you access it easily from the one place that so many of us frequent every day.
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