Meaningless statistics
Posted by Hamish on August 21st, 2006
Update: Brian Fallow of the NZ Herald agrees that online job advertising has been overlooked.
The NZ Herald reports that there are 8% fewer vacancies in July compared to 12 months earlier (Department of Labour survey). The results were collated from newspapers and two IT websites.
However they didn’t look at job ads on Trademe. Maybe the authors don’t understand the impact of Trademe on the job market (they have over 4,100 jobs at the moment compared to 6,351 recorded by the survey). It would be interesting to know how many jobs are advertised on Trademe and not in newspapers - more and more I suspect!