Online Labor Declines

The demand for online labor in the United States has decreased during the month of December. However, while there was a decrease, the demand is still higher than it was approximately one year ago. This information was provided by a private research group who released the results on Friday.

Overall, from month to month, the entire index fell about 5.0 percent by December. It seems as though public administration has had the largest decline, having dropped 11 percent each year. In the meantime, the transportation sector seems to be doing very well and has had reported some job growth instead of declines.

Many of the metropolitan markets have had a lot of growth within the year, especially Cincinnati, having done very well and showing the highest growth for the month of December out of all of the other metro markets.

Monster Employment Index for the United States provides information on the demand for online jobs with a bunch of different employment opportunities that are provided on different websites and online listing for jobs and employment. Most people who are looking for online employment can search for these online jobs through the Monster Index, which can be very useful for finding employment, both online and offline.

Jesse Harriott, the senior vice president and chief knowledge officer for Monster Worldwide, has said, “The Index maintained a positive year-on-year growth trend, despite easing from November to December due to the typical slowdown in recruitment activity associated with the end of the calendar year.” She also says, “Although indicators of economic activity within the trade and commerce sectors suggest economic growth continued in Q4, 2012 hiring plans in the context of the global economic uncertainty remain cautious.”

The index has monitored twenty different industries and of those twenty industries, at least fifteen of them have shown positive yearly growth. The top growing sectors seem to be agriculture, fish and hunting, and forestry, which have all grown by the month of December.

Aside from these sectors, the transportation and warehouse sector has had much success with robust yearly growth. The activity of job growth has proven to be very strong for the ending of the year of 2011. In the meantime, retail trade seems to have made much improvement when it came to growth for the year.

Unfortunately, both utilities and public administration had declines during the year. Public administration had the steepest decline during the month of December.

While there was a decline, the 28 different metro markets have reported some overall positive yearly growth for the month of December. Cincinnati is up by 27 percent and is at the top of the leaderboard for having the top growth market during the month of December.