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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 minikomi »

thedufer wrote: post #21
mopatches wrote: post #13

The chart is based on relative percentage, not absolute counts. So it's useless - if more gardeners look for jobs on Indeed.com then the engineer/developer/etc lines in this chart drop off. The chart doesn't mean anything in isolation.

This seems like a reasonable explanation, given that "manager", "plumber", and "electrician" all show similar drop-offs . I wonder what is increasing enough to have such a visible effect, though. You can't see them on the same graph since they're magnitudes are so different, so this isn't easy to see/I may be imagining things.

"Tax" is one which seems to be increasing.

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

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Post by justizin »

justizin wrote: post #29
jzf wrote: post #14

this chart does not empirically prove this. It only proves that less people are trafficking in these jobs through Indeed. These kinds of jobs are increasingly being found through other channels.

Right. It could actually show a downturn in the market for job posting sites like monster. When I worked for Simply Hired, I thought it was really odd that I found the job through Craigslist, but the White House was calling us for hard numbers indicating demand for skills in the job market.

I mean, CL jobs would end up on Simply Hired as well, I just felt like we only had a slice, even if a big one, and we didn't know enough about the sample.

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

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Post by joezydeco »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #24
svachalek wrote: post #10

I think you're just not using modern terminology: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=rock+star&l=

Cute, but that graph ranges from 0 to 0.04 percent -- it would be just a blip on the other graph, which ranges from 0 to 10 percent.

FTFY: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=engineer%2C+programming%2C...

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

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Post by notatoad »

rpwilcox wrote: post #12

I have seen a lot of freelancers on Twitter tweeting that they have availability. So, another potentially interesting data point.

I'm fairly certain that your subjective opinion of things you've seen on twitter doesn't count as "data".

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

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Post by thaumaturgy »

joezydeco wrote: post #33
thaumaturgy wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cute, but that graph ranges from 0 to 0.04 percent -- it would be just a blip on the other graph, which ranges from 0 to 10 percent.

FTFY: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=engineer%2C+programming%2C...

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

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

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Post by joezydeco »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #36
joezydeco wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FTFY: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=engineer%2C+programming%2C...

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

Totally serious. I changed the graph to "relative" to show growth of the term over the period.

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

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Post by 0x0 »

john_b wrote: post #20
0x0 wrote: post #11

This is a chart of searches for jobs, not listings of available jobs, right? And it's at the top around 2008-2009 which was just around the time of the latest financial crisis? Wouldn't this be more a sign of just the opposite, then? People have jobs and aren't searching for new ones?

From the page: "This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms." Sounds like they're crawling sites like Monster.com and counting keywords.

Ah, you're right. I misread.

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

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Post by jussij »

dwg wrote: post #25

another take on it from SimplyHired: http://www.simplyhired.com/a/trends/aoccupation?ocp=Computer...

So their figures concur, indicating a marked slow in computer engineering last year.

I know personally 2012 was a very bad year for I.T. here in Australia. But it has seem to be picking up a little since the start of 2013.

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