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Is there some kind of tech crash happening right now?

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Re: Is there some kind of tech crash happening right now?

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Post by yajoe »

dmor wrote: post #43

Maybe at Microsoft http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=google%2C+microsoft%2C+app...

You may be on to something. Of the companies in your query, only Microsoft has results on the same scale as the 'engineer' query (6-8% of jobs posting). And, Microsoft has a downturn that is visually similar as the 'engineering' query. So, it could be that another big player or major deal recently landed and increased the job mix. Or, it could be an effect of Microsoft's recent recruiter layoff (I only know about this because a friend was affected -- no idea how widespread, etc.).

I don't know, but your data has a reasonable narrative.

Re: Is there some kind of tech crash happening right now?

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Post by minikomi »

seregine wrote: post #55
dragonwriter wrote: post #53

Since they appear to search some set of available online job listing sites, its clearly a change in the mix of listings at those sites -- but it doesn't even necessarily mean a change in relative number of tech jobs to other jobs available (much less a tech crash). Simply a burst in non-tech jobs being more widely posted to different job sites (or new job sites that are non-tech oriented being added to indeed.com's d…

In fact there's a corresponding uptick in "health" jobs: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=software%2C+health&l=

Also "work from home". I'm guessing something flooded the job boards in the last month with a single term (think something spammy!), combined with a seasonal downturn .

Re: Is there some kind of tech crash happening right now?

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

arbuge wrote: post #44

Fascinating tool. Some other interesting ones: financial crisis in effect: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=repo+&l= no idea about this one: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=terrorist&l= no idea about this one either: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=escort&l=

Second one was Obama's first election. Jobs having "terrorist" in the name are not jobs for blowing up buildings, they're jobs beating the drum for Republicans. Then in 2010 the Republicans failed to take the Senate and in so doing realized that terrorism rhetoric wasn't having the same effect as it did a decade ago, so they started focusing on other things.
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