August Online Job Vacancies See Little Change

In August there were 4,104,800 online advertised job openings, an increase of 20,600 or 0.5 percent from the July level, according to the Conference Board help-Wanted Online Data Series.

"While there are occupations and industries, like healthcare, where demand for labor remains high, August was a month when The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index also indicated that Americans were feeling the softening of general business conditions and the labor market."

In August, 2,780,400 of the 4,104,800 unduplicated online advertised vacancies were new ads that did not appear in July and the remainder of the ads were reposted from the previous month. The 0.5 percent monthly increase in total ads reflected a 6 percent increase in new ads that offset the decline in reposted ads. Over the year (August '06 - August '07) new ads rose 14 percent.