JobsInNH.com Employment Index Climbs 30 percent in Online Recruitment; Web Site Visits Increase 55 percent in Second Quarter 200
06 Agosto 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
WESTBROOK, Maine, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- JobsInTheUS.com (JIUS)
Employment Index for New Hampshire (JobsinNH) showed a year over
year job growth rate increase of 30 percent and Web site visits
increased 55 percent for the second quarter of 2007. The Index
revealed that manufacturing continues to be the leading industry
for online recruitment on this site. Journal Register Company
(NYSE:JRC), parent company of JobsInTheUS.com owns and operates 19
JIUS Web sites including JobsInMS.com (Mississippi), JobsInAL.com
(Alabama), JobsInME.com (Maine), JobsInNH.com (New Hampshire),
JobsInVT.com (Vermont), JobsInRI.com (Rhode Island) and more.
Second Quarter 2007 Summary Background: JobsInNH.com is the largest
Internet job site in the state. With nearly 8,532, job openings
this quarter and more than 350,000 searches being done, we are in a
unique position to monitor and report on the employment trends
within the state with data available on a county level. The
JobsInNH.com Jobs Index is a statistical summary of the data
compiled for the quarter by month. The Index identifies key trends
based on job openings posted, searches performed by job seekers and
key metrics from the Web site. Taken together they offer a unique
perspective into the key trends for employment in New Hampshire.
Job Trends: The following are the significant trends for Second
Quarter 2007: -- The number of job openings this quarter (8,532) is
up 21 percent from second quarter 2006. There is general strength
in many areas of the state and across many industries. -- A
majority of the new job openings were in Rockingham County (25.2%
of all job openings posted), Hillsborough County (23.7%) and
Merrimack County (9.6%). -- Job openings activity covered a number
of job types: - Manufacturing, 13.1% of all job openings - Customer
Service, 7.2% - Sales, 7.2% - Healthcare, 7.8% (up 88 % from second
quarter 2006) - Clerical, 4.5% -- Companies with less than 50
employees posted 44.4 percent of all job openings. -- Companies
with 51-100 employees accounted for 16.5 percent of the total. --
Companies with 101-250 employees accounted for 17.4 percent of the
total. -- Full-time positions made up 82.4 percent of the quarter's
job openings -- Part-time made up 14.6% of the job openings Job
Search Trends: The following are the significant trends for Second
Quarter 2007: -- The number of qualified (job seeker used specific
parameters to search for a position) searches for the quarter was
358,254. -- The top job categories searched by job seekers were
(essentially the same as last quarter): - Clerical, 6.9% -
Healthcare, 8.1% - Accounting, 6.2% - Manufacturing, 4.1% -
IT/Computers, 3.7% -- Qualified searches also contained a
geographic preference of 30.9 percent. - Rockingham County, 25.3%
of qualified searches - Hillsborough County, 28.7% - Strafford,
13.4% -- A majority of the job seekers prefer to look for positions
within close proximity to their home. The commuting preference for
job seekers was: - 1-30 miles 56.2% - 31-40 miles 18.7% - > 40
miles 25.1% Web Site Trends: JobsInNH.com had a total of 1,188,282
unique visits for the quarter, up 56% from second quarter 2006.
Average time spent per visit increased slightly to 10 minutes, 23
seconds. During an average visit, a job seeker will download 6.8
pages. * New Web stats package, Omniture, implemented April 2007. *
New link added to the site "Browse by Category/City" to optimize
job seeker experience (may cause a decrease in the number of site
search counts per month). * For more information and complete data
breakdown please call (888) 883-1294. About JobsInTheUS Founded in
1999, JobsInTheUS is one of the fastest-growing local job Internet
sites -- both in terms of unique visits to the Web sites and jobs
posted. Headquartered in Westbrook, Maine, the company specializes
in state- specific job Internet sites where qualified candidates
who want to work in a particular state find a match with local
employers at a lower cost for employers than other recruiting
methods. JobsInTheUS operates JobsInME.com, JobsInNH.com,
JobsInVT.com, JobsInRI.com, JobsInMA.com, JobsInCT.com,
JobsInPA.com, JobsInNewYork.com, JobsInNJ.com, JobsInDE.com,
JobsInAL.com, JobsInLouisiana.com, JobsInMS.com, JobsInKS.com,
JobsInMD.com, JobsInDC.com, JobsInVA.com, JobsInWV.com, and
JobsInAK.com. About Journal Register Company Journal Register
Company is a leading U.S. media company. Journal Register Company
owns 22 daily newspapers and 346 non-daily publications. Journal
Register Company currently operates 226 individual Web sites that
are affiliated with the Company's daily newspapers, non-daily
publications and its network of employment Web sites. These Web
sites can be accessed at http://www.journalregister.com/. All of
the Company's operations are strategically clustered in six
geographic areas: Greater Philadelphia; Michigan; Connecticut;
Greater Cleveland; and the Capital-Saratoga and Mid-Hudson regions
of New York. The Company owns JobsInTheUS, a network of 19 premier
employment Web sites. Safe-Harbor This release contains
forward-looking information about Journal Register Company that is
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of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not
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estimates and their underlying assumptions, the extent or timing of
cost savings, charges, the extent of employees impacted, and
statements about the future performance, operations, products and
services of the Company. These forward-looking statements involve a
number of risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results
to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but
are not limited to, the success of the Company's acquisition
strategy, dispositions, the ability of the Company to achieve cost
reductions and integrate acquisitions, competitive pressures
including competition from non- newspaper forms of media, general
or regional economic conditions and advertising trends, the
unavailability or a material increase in the price of newsprint and
increases in interest rates, changes in performance that affect
financial covenant compliance or funds available for borrowing,
technological changes, the adoption of new accounting standards or
changes in accounting standards. These and additional risk factors
are outlined in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form
10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company
undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future events,
or otherwise. DATASOURCE: JobsInNH.com CONTACT: Angie Helton,
Northeast Media Associates, +1-207-653-0365, Web site:
http://jobsinnh.com/ http://www.jobsintheus.com/
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