New Tool Reveals Job Trends for Your Search Terms - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

New Tool Reveals Job Trends for Your Search Terms - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career 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: Marketing jobs decreased 25% Finance jobs decreased 33% Accounting jobs decreased 38% HR jobs decreased 48% Social Media jobs increased 42% With Employment Trends, you can compare the frequency of job titles, companies, skills and industries in the US employment market. This marketing, finance, accounting, hr, social media trend data is derived from millions of jobs indexed by Simply Hired.