New Tool Reveals Job Trends for Your Search Terms

Simply Hired is a vertical job search aggregator that takes your search terms and gives you results that are pooled from various job banks on the internet. Their philosophy is to be the central hub for job listings online and today they announced a new tool that measures job trends over time. From July 2006 to January 2008, you can view trends related to any keyword of interest, such as “marketing” or “finance.” You get to choose which graphs you want the data shown in, such as a line or bar graph. My favorite part is that you can compare trends from different keywords. As you will notice below, the main business functions are decreasing in job opportunities (economic recession), but social media jobs are abundant and growing, and IT jobs have increased 3% from last year (not pictured).
This graph displays the percentage of jobs that contain your search terms. Since July 2006, the following has occurred:

Picture of Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin’s Press) and the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing), which combined have been translated into 15 languages.

TRENDING AROUND THE WEB

The best communicators are not the most detailed but the most selective about which details their audience will use

The best communicators are not the most detailed but the most selective about which details their audience will use

Global English Editing

A study that tracked how couples split their time between texting, calls, and being in the same room found that face-to-face time — and, more surprisingly, even brief phone calls — predicted how understood a partner felt, while hours of texting moved satisfaction not at all

A study that tracked how couples split their time between texting, calls, and being in the same room found that face-to-face time — and, more surprisingly, even brief phone calls — predicted how understood a partner felt, while hours of texting moved satisfaction not at all

The Blog Herald

As AI-generated content floods search results and social feeds, a growing number of companies now exist just to certify that a human made the thing you’re looking at

As AI-generated content floods search results and social feeds, a growing number of companies now exist just to certify that a human made the thing you’re looking at

Global English Editing

Researchers asked people to reconnect with an old friend either by phone or by email, and the people who predicted the phone call would feel awkward were wrong — it left them significantly more connected than email did, with no extra awkwardness at all

Researchers asked people to reconnect with an old friend either by phone or by email, and the people who predicted the phone call would feel awkward were wrong — it left them significantly more connected than email did, with no extra awkwardness at all

The Blog Herald

People leaving a conversation with someone new consistently underestimate how much that person actually liked them, and the effect held up even when researchers followed college roommates for months after they first met

People leaving a conversation with someone new consistently underestimate how much that person actually liked them, and the effect held up even when researchers followed college roommates for months after they first met

The Blog Herald

Psychology says people who reach their 60s without a large circle of friends aren’t lonely — they’re the ones who figured out the one relationship truth that emotionally intelligent people swear by, which is that one person who truly sees you is worth more than a hundred people who only know your name

Psychology says people who reach their 60s without a large circle of friends aren’t lonely — they’re the ones who figured out the one relationship truth that emotionally intelligent people swear by, which is that one person who truly sees you is worth more than a hundred people who only know your name

The Blog Herald