All I want for Christmas is a job!
We are less than 1 week away from Black Friday which means most companies are finished hiring for the holiday season. We did find employers still looking to hire full-time and part-time jobs but you better go get them right now.
Indeed.com recently released some stats on job search behavior they are seeing on their job search engine. The data looks at top keywords and companies in Oct. ’09 and compares it to one year ago.
| Rank | Change | Keywords | Job Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Customer Service | 727,753 | |
| 2 | Delivery | 227,304 | |
| 3 | Inventory | 148,825 | |
| 4 | Temporary | 130,850 | |
| 5 | Driver | 187,521 | |
| 6 | +1 | Sales Associate | 71,338 |
| 7 | -1 | Shipping | 44,872 |
| 8 | Cashier | 38,550 | |
| 9 | +4 | Christmas | 36,381 |
| 10 | +4 | Thanksgiving | 34,402 |
| 11 | -2 | Loss Prevention | 26,669 |
| 12 | -2 | Teller | 25,720 |
| 13 | +4 | Cosmetics | 12,834 |
| 14 | -2 | Kiosk | 9,186 |
| 15 | +1 | Stock Room | 7,003 |
Rising companies are shown below and include AT&T and UPS, both of which moved up four positions since last year.
| Rank | Change | Company | Job Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +4 | AT&T Jobs | 41,349 |
| 2 | Sears | 26,077 | |
| 3 | +4 | UPS | 14,441 |
| 4 | -1 | Radio Shack | 12,452 |
| 5 | -1 | T-Mobile | 4,698 |
| 6 | -5 | Kmart | 12,087 |
| 7 | +2 | Macy’s | 8,413 |
| 8 | -2 | Verizon Wireless | 6,783 |
| 9 | -1 | Kohl’s | 4,282 |
| 10 | Toys-R-Us | 3,558 |