NEW YORK (Reuters) -
Help-wanted postings on major
U.S.-based Internet job boards were down 0.6 percent in March
from a year ago, the measure's first-ever decline on a
year-over-year basis, a private research group said on Monday.
The Conference Board said its measure of the total number
of unduplicated online jobs fell to 3.73 million in March from
about 3.75 million a year ago, and also down from 3.93 million
in February 2008. The March figures reflect the sum of the
number of ads from mid-February to mid-March.
"The softening in advertised vacancies evident over the
last few months spread to more states in March and, for the
first time, annual growth turned negative for the nation as a
whole," said Gad Levanon, a Conference Board economist.
The Conference Board said jobs advertised online declined
in all of the nine U.S. Census regions in March.
Adjusting for the size of the state civilian labor force,
Alaska led U.S. states in offerings with 4.65 online job ads
per 100 people, followed by Nevada with 4.38 and Delaware with
4.26.
The ADP National Employment Report, due on Wednesday, is
expected to show 48,000 jobs were lost in the U.S. private
sector in March, following a 23,000 reduction in February,
according to a Reuters survey.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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