Managerial Jobs Online Improve in June

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Although the rising unemployment rate would leave one to believe that job listings were down, some reports saw differently. According to a recent press release, the number of jobs online for managerial positions increased for the second month in a row in June.

The CareerCast.com/ JobSerf Employment Index measures managerial recruitment activity throughout the United States. The latest report showed that job listings for C-level, vice president, director and managerial positions increased by 3.8 points. This follows a 15.2 point rise in May.

According to the Index, the number of executive and management level of positions announced on the Internet rated at a value of 60.4 during June. In May it stood at 56.6 points, following an index value of 41.1 points in April. Despite the fact that there has been an increase showing a positive trend over the course of the last few months, it still has a lot of ground to cover before it is back at where it stood a year ago. In June of 2008 the Index value for these upper level positions was 102.6 points.

"It's very promising that the demand for managers and executives has risen two months in a row," said Tony Lee, a publisher with CareerCast.com, in the recent release. "White-collar candidates who visited job boards in June saw more opportunities than they've seen in quite some time, which is a great sign."

All different levels of management positions announced online increased during the month, but C-level jobs saw a particularly strong increase. These positions rose from 65 to 74 points. As far as these jobs go, this is the highest level reported since September of 2008.

All regions reported small increases during the month, but the strongest occurred in the Midwest area of the country. These positions rose from 53.1 to 60.9 points, according to the Index. This rise brought the area back to comparable levels with the rest of the country. Over the last few months there have been some modest gains in the Western region of the nation, but June saw this area falling behind other areas. Currently it is 5 points below the rest of the country.

"With a June Index score 40 points lower than it was a year ago and unemployment doubling last year, the end result is that locating a job online may be almost three times as competitive," said JobSerf’s chairman Jay Martin. "Now that the index has begun to rise and online job listings become more plentiful, managers and executives will have an easier time finding new employment."

In order to determine the index for CareerCast.com and JobSerf a team of researchers gather the information about job listings from the web. This index gives valuable information about the state of different areas of employment, which makes it easier to understand different trends and forecast what will happen next.