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Monster Local Employment Index
Fourteen of 28 U.S. Metro Markets See Decline in Online Job Demand in July,

Individual Monster Local Employment Index reports containing July data for each of the 28 metro markets, as well as additional information on occupational demand in each area, are now available.

The Detroit metro area saw the greatest month-to-month increase in online job availability in July, rising three points and continuing a two-month growth trend. White-collar jobs within management; business and financial operations; and computer and mathematical occupations all saw strong growth in online job demand in the Detroit market, while production occupations remained flat.

Eight other markets edged higher in July, with four of them - Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Seattle and Washington, D.C. - seeing a rise in online job demand for the second consecutive month. Five markets - Boston, Chicago, Houston, Portland and St. Louis - remained unchanged in July from their June levels, while fourteen other markets saw declines of varying degrees during the month. Miami and Orlando experienced the sharpest declines in July, coming off sharp increases in June. Only Indianapolis showed a downward trend, declining for the second straight month.

Online demand for military specific occupations trended higher across most of the 28 markets tracked by the Index, reflecting stepped-up recruitment efforts on the part of the U.S. Army, Army National Guard, and U.S. Army Reserve to secure new enlistees.

In contrast, online demand for production occupations was down across most markets, reflecting continued weak demand for manufacturing workers. Construction and extraction occupation saw uneven demand across the 28 markets, suggesting that the strong pace of demand for construction workers during the first six months of 2005 may be beginning to slow down. Lastly, community and social services occupations saw growing online job availability in most markets, reflecting strong online recruitment within the non-profit sector.

Overall results for the top 28 U.S. metro markets over the past three months are as follows:

Market	July 05	June 05	May 05
Atlanta	101	100	100
Baltimore	100	101	99
Boston	100	100	100
Chicago	99	99	101
Cincinnati	102	101	99
Cleveland	99	100	100
Dallas	99	100	100
Denver	101	102	98
Detroit	104	101	99
Houston	100	100	100
Indianapolis	98	99	101
Kansas City	101	100	100
Los Angeles	100	101	99
Miami	98	102	98
Minneapolis	102	101	99
New York City	99	100	100
Orlando	99	104	96
Philadelphia	100	101	99
Phoenix	101	100	100
Pittsburgh	101	100	100
Portland	100	100	100
Sacramento	99	101	99
San Diego	100	101	99
San Francisco	100	101	99
Seattle	102	101	99
St.Louis	100	100	100
Tampa Bay	99	100	100
Washington D.C.	102	101	99

The August results of the Monster Local Employment Index will be released on September 15, 2005.

You Should Know

Africa:

• Service delivery in small and rural municipalities is unlikely to improve in the immediate future, as government grapples with an acute shortage of managerial, professional and technical skills. (AllAfrica)

Australia:

•  Research is to be conducted to find out why there is a shortage of labour in remote and regional areas. The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), in Alice Springs, will study why it is difficult for employers to attract and maintain staff. (ABCAustralia)

Global:

• Demographic matching -- even 'psychographic' matching -- is increasingly likely to be used to connect customers with a compatible agent when they speak to call centre personnel. The idea behind demographic matching is that contact centers either recruit staff from the same age group as their customers, or they route calls at least in part according to demographic criteria. The assumption is that a mature person calling a health insurance fund would prefer to talk to someone of similar age, for example. (ZDNet)

• Monster.com may grow up to be a dinosaur. That was my first thought upon seeing a new breed of online job sites shaking up the recruitment industry.  Simply Hired and Indeed, upstarts less than a year old, are getting attention for their Google-like approach to helping people find jobs. They do for job listings what Google does for general information -- crawl or "scrape" listings from thousands of sites and create a free, searchable index in one spot. (Washington Post)

• Says Disgruntled Recruiter "I went from being connected to 2.2 million people to 600,000 overnight. "...Linkedin's Director of Sales..... explained rather clearly that there is NO way to ever access the names of people in your 4th degree or beyond, regardless of whether you choose to become a paid subscriber or continue to use their free service. "Each paid level is merely an inflation of the number of emails you can send to people you won't be able to identify by name and only by title. Read the rest on Researchzilla. (Recruiting.com)

• Jobster runs on an application service provider (ASP) model, and is sold to corporate recruiters, who then get software dashboards that let them reach out to passive candidates in various ways. For example, Boeing has about 100 recruiters and 59,000 employees. With that number of employees, personal contacts become a promising way to identify passive candidates. So employees targeted because they know lots of people get job ads and other content pushed to them regularly from the recruiters' dashboards. The targeted employees can also choose how they want to receive such information and make it available to outsiders. They can view jobs on Web pages that Jobster hosts and recommend people on those pages. Or they can automatically send postings to people in their Outlook address books, with Jobster keeping track of the contacts made. (PCMagazine)

• Besides Adecco backpedaling on its aggressive gross margin expansion, CSFB says most disappointing part of management call is lack of clear strategic message or unifying theme tying individual regions together. (CSFB)

• Automating the Mining of the Deep Web. Mike Bazeley's article: Diving deep into the Web, profiles a Bay Area start-up named Glenbrook Networks that is developing technology to crawl material that's hidden in deep/invisible web databases. ...It's worth noting that although Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com don't extract job listings from corportate "databases" THEY DO crawl job listings posted directly to company web sites. SearchEngineWatch)

India:

• Many a time when confronting a complex system, we are required to define it through a quantitative model with a need to communicate it to a narrative world; and in the same breath, obliged to convert a narrative based system into a quantitative model. Consequently, mathematical modelling and simulation need to be embedded within a narrative context. When any system is described as a narrative, within a contextual framework (or paradigm) it is called a narradigm. By identifying and understanding the set of narradigms which describe a manpower flow system in a dynamic environment, it is possible to quantify uncertainties and complexities in the system and arrive at a solution set which is both quantifiable and credible. (Business Standard)

Malaysia:

• Employers who wish to recruit foreign workers will have their applications processed on-the-spot, instead of having to wait three to four weeks. (New Straits Times)

Netherlands:

• Amsterdam shares lower midday led down by recruitment agency Share prices traded lower in midday trade led down by recruitment agency stocks following disappointing Adecco results. (Forbes)

UK:

• Wage pressures in the UK economy appeared to have been relatively well-contained in June as employment levels fell for the second consecutive month. (Forbes)

USA:

• Single-adult households have displaced two-parent families with children as the most common kind of U.S. household, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.  The change demonstrates "the growing complexity" of American households, researchers said in a new report, "Examining American Household Composition: 1990 and 2000." "It's breathtaking how many people still think that the 'mom, pop and two kids' is the majority of households," said Peter Francese, the founder of American Demographics magazine (World Peace Herald)

• About two-thirds of American workers expect to work full or part time after retiring from their main job, according to a newly conducted survey that found rising anxiety about retirement income. (CNN)

• For all the editorials that argue for or against granting amnesty to low-wage workers, very few address the issue of high-wage, high-skilled immigration. For all the television pundits who link illegal immigration to national security, none discusses the implications to our economic security of keeping the best and brightest minds on the planet out of the United States. (Merc)

• Managing the Talent Pool. In most companies the most valuable commodity, the most essential element of success in your industry, is the small pool of really talented people. Before you can hire them, before you can steal them away for someone else, before you can tempt them with exciting challenges and tantalizing compensation packages, you have to find them....(About.com)

Washington:

• Washington's economy surged forward in July with employers adding 12,800 jobs, more than half created in the Seattle metro area. The statewide jobless rate also edged up to 5.7 percent in July from 5.5 percent the previous month as the unemployed resumed their job search and were once again counted in the labor force. (Seattle Times)

   

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