JobsInTheUS.com Second Quarter Employment Index Dips Four Percent in Job Openings; Web Site Visits Show Significant Increase
06 Agosto 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
WESTBROOK, Maine, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- JobsInTheUS.com (JIUS)
Employment Index for the second quarter 2007 showed job openings
dipped four percent, reflecting the softness in the housing, auto,
and wider service sectors, as compared to the Second Quarter of
2006. Despite the Index's slight decline in job openings, JIUS Web
site visits increased significantly to 22 percent over last year's
Index for the same time period. Healthcare continued to be the
leading industry for recruitment postings along with customer
support, followed by manufacturing, sales and clerical,
respectively. 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
JobsInTheUS.com is the largest Internet job site in the Northeast
and fastest growing recruiting sites in the South. With nearly
35,418 job openings posted this quarter and more than 1.5 million
searches being done, the Company is in a unique position to monitor
and report the employment trends within the state. The
JobsInTheUS.com Employment 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
the Northeast. Job Trends: The following are the significant trends
for Second Quarter 2007: -- The number of job openings posted this
quarter, 35,418, is down four percent from second quarter 2006. --
Job openings activity covered a number of job types: -- Healthcare
positions accounted for 16.8% of all job openings -- Customer
Support, 7.9% -- Manufacturing, 6.9% -- Sales, 5.8% -- Clerical,
4.6% -- Companies with 50 or fewer employees posted 41.8 percent of
the jobs. -- Companies with 101-250 employees accounted for 16.8%.
-- Companies with 251-500 employees accounted for 13.9%. -- Job
openings for full-time positions were 73.1 percent of all job
openings. -- Part-time positions were 20.7% -- Per diem positions
were 6.3% 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 1,590,675. -- The top job categories searched by job
seekers were: -- Healthcare, 8.5% of qualified searches --
Clerical, 5.9% -- Accounting, 4.8 % -- Banking/Finance, 3.6% --
IT/Computers, 4.0% -- 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 56.5% -- 31-40 miles
18.7% -- > 40 miles 24.8% Web Site Trends: JobsInTheUS.com had
1,534,201 visits for the quarter, a 22 percent increase from
1,258,657 in the second quarter 2006. The average time spent per
visit was 8 minutes and 1 second. During an average visit, a job
seeker will download 5.5 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). * The
JobsInTheUS.com combined index includes; JobInME.com, JobsInNH.com,
JobsInVT.com, JobsInRI.com, JobsInMA.com, JobsInCT.com and
JobsInDE.com. * 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
intended to be covered by the safe harbor for forward-looking
statements provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not
historical facts. These statements can be identified by the use of
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"will," "should," "project," "plan," "seek," "intend," or
"anticipate" or the negative thereof or comparable terminology, and
include discussions of strategy, financial projections and
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: JobsInTheUS.com CONTACT: Angie Helton of
Northeast Media Associates, +1-207-653-0365, , for JobsInTheUS.com
Web site: http://www.jobsintheus.com/
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