Totaljobs.com, one of the UK’s leading recruitment websites, announced the launch of its ‘Totaljobs Barometer’

This new tool will provide recruiters and journalists with a range of data about the UK online recruitment market, across 33 sectors and 8 regions. The ‘Totaljobs Barometer’ data can be filtered so that users can focus in on a particular region or sector, meaning that patterns specific to those areas can be identified and analysed.

John Salt, website director of totaljobs, comments: “We have access to a wide range of insightful information about the online recruitment market, and the ‘Totaljobs Barometer’ is a way for us to share this information with our users. Being able to investigate the data in more detail also allows recruiters to find out about the current state of the market in their area, allowing them to work out the best times to recruit to find the best quality candidates, for example.”

The Jobs Barometer will perform searches presenting the relationship between the supply of jobs, measured by the amount of jobs posted to an industry or location, and the demand generated by UK jobseekers, measured by job application figures and job search details.

Key Findings from the most recent report:

• Searches for Customer Services positions have increased by a 25% since March 2009
• Demand for jobs outstripped supply by nearly 10 to 1, the highest it has been since July 2008
• Engineering, Manufacturing and Utilities, Sales and IT and Internet Sectors showed the greatest number of jobs posted between April and June
• The number of applications has increased on 18 out of the 33 sectors on totaljobs

In addition, the information available on the ‘Totaljobs Barometer’ will be used to produce quarterly whitepapers, examining the trends in the relationship between the number of jobs available and the demand for positions from UK jobseekers. The reports will also provide those in the recruitment market with first hand insight into the signs of uplift in a sector or region.

All data from the ‘Totaljobs Barometer’ is sourced from the totaljobs.com website where over 3,500 recruiters advertise positions to more than 2.3 million monthly UK jobseekers. The totaljobs.com audience is fully reflective of the wider UK working population (with the exception of a stronger representation of females, ethnic minorities, from Totaljobs.com User Profile Survey) which ensures the jobseekers reflect the true activity of the broader recruitment industry.

Last update : 17-09-2009 08:44

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