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Dayton
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Ohio sees
sharpest drop in online job
ads
December 5, 2011
DAYTON
— Online job advertisements in
Ohio last month decreased by the largest amount of any state in the
country,
suggesting the state’s job market remains weak, according to a new
report.
Between
October and November, the
number of online job postings in Ohio fell by more than 6 percent to
147,300
from 157,600, according to the Conference Board, a New York-based
research
organization. Since June, the job postings advertised online in the
state
decreased by 22,300.
But
Ben Johnson, spokesman with the
Ohio Department of Job & Family Services, said some job
postings are
disappearing because the openings are being filled.
“A
little more than 40,000 jobs were
added since January,” he said. “Those are positions that were posted
somewhere,
but have now been filled.”
The
U.S. Department of Labor reported
Friday that the country added about 120,000 jobs in November, and the
national
unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, the lowest level in more than
two years.
Ann
Stevens, spokeswoman with the
Montgomery County Department of Job & Family Services, said the
economy and
job market are improving, but slowly.
A
search of OhioMeansJobs.com found
that there were about 13,524 full-time job postings within 50 miles of
Dayton.
The top positions advertised were registered nurses (909 jobs) and
retail sales
people (671).
Stevens
said one of the biggest issues
with the employment market is that many jobs-seekers are not qualified
for the
open positions. She noted, for example, that positions in the health
care
industry typically require training and certification.
Nationally,
online job postings fell
by 76,200 in November to 3.857 million, according to the board’s report.
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