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European Online Recruitment Up 18%, Reports Monster Employment IndexEurope


    September 2011 Index Highlights:

    • The Monster Employment Index Europe demonstrates year-over-year growth rate of 18 percent
    • Engineering leads all industries by rate of annual growth, closely followed by Production, manufacturing, maintenance and repair and Transport, post and logistics
    • Legal and Public sector, defence and community are the only two industries to exhibit net reductions over the year in September
    • Craft and related workers remains the star performer of all occupational groups for the sixth consecutive month
    • All countries except Belgium exhibit annual growth in September

    The Monster Employment Index Europe is a monthly gauge of online job demand based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career web sites and online job listings across Europe. The Index does not reflect the trend of any one advertiser or source, but is an aggregate measure of the change in job listings across the industry.

    "The Index demonstrates continued strength in sectors such as engineering and manufacturing which has helped sustain an overall positive recruitment growth trend in Europe," commented Alan Townsend, Vice President of Sales Readiness and Business Operations for Monster Europe. "The pace of annual growth however has somewhat eased as countries across Europe continue to deal with sluggish economies."

    Monster Employment Index Europe results for the past 18 months are as follows:

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      Y-O-Y 108   112   114   115   115   117   122   122   122   116   125   131   136   135   140   139   139   138   18%

    Industry Year-over-year Trends: 22 of the 24 industry sectors monitored by the Index in September exhibited positive annual growth trends.

    • Engineering (up 38 percent) exhibited a slightly eased rate of annual growth in September but still surpassed the manufacturing and related sectors which had previously led
    • Production, manufacturing, maintenance and repair and Transport, post, logistics (both up 36 percent) ranked second and third respectively by measure of annual growth, despite industrial new orders and export activity seeing a slowdown
    • Legal (down three percent) became the second of only two sectors to register negative annual growth this month; declines were most pronounced in western countries and attributable to eased recruitment for both professionals and support roles
    • Public sector, defence, community (down six percent) continued to exhibit further reductions in annual growth in September
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    Engineering   122   168   38%
    Environment, architecture and urbanism   97   101   4% Production, manufacturing, maintenance, repair   200   271   36%
    Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure   104   107   3% Transport, post and logistics   143   195   36%
    Banking, finance, insurance   85   86   1% Telecommunication   82   109   33%
    Legal   117   114   -3% Real estate   94   118   26%
    Public sector, defence, community   85   80   -6%

    Occupation Year-over-year Trends: All nine occupational groups monitored by the Index in September continued to exhibit positive annual growth.

    • Craft and related trades workers (up 41 percent) noted reduced growth in September in-line with trends seen in the production and construction sectors but continued to remain the star performer, completing a sixth month at the top
    • Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (up 28 percent) edged up this month by measure of annual growth, ranking second
    • Managers (up nine percent) and Technicians and associate professionals (up 12 percent) continued to exhibit the slowest growth of all occupational groups
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    Craft and related trades workers   174   246   41%
    Clerical support workers   125   143   14% Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers   159   203   28%
    Technicians and associate professionals   111   124   12% Elementary occupations   165   203   23%
    Managers   102   111   9%

    The full monthly Monster Employment Index reports for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom will be made available on Tuesday, 11th October at 06:00 CET at: http://aboutmonster.com/employment/index/17.

    Data for the month of October 2011 will be released on November 4, 2011.

     

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    Belgium   106   108   110   110   101   113   120   125   119   118   113   109   102   -4% France   116   135   133   134   124   136   138   146   144   150   148   139   132   14% Germany   128   131   135   134   133   139   151   159   158   164   166   172   175   37% Italy   127   134   148   152   135   134   145   147   145   142   148   140   132   4% Netherlands   86   90   92   92   89   90   95   97   98   97   96   92   88   2% Sweden   134   140   150   152   143   163   161   167   170   161   149   146   149   11% United Kingdom   131   138   130   133   128   139   137   138   136   141   140   138   135   3%

     

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    Accounting, audit, taxes   91   94   92   92   91   93   99   102   101   102   101   98   97   7% Administrative, organisation   94   98   98   97   95   102   107   107   108   112   109   112   110   17% Agriculture, fishing and forestry   104   116   112   101   90   109   125   131   130   140   134   133   130   25% Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure   104   107   104   108   105   106   111   112   113   119   116   113   107   3% Automotive   106   107   113   109   101   113   117   122   125   135   126   132   128   21% Banking, finance, insurance   85   87   85   84   80   83   88   91   88   86   89   88   86   1% Construction and extraction   126   126   126   122   113   122   129   134   135   141   140   144   142   13% Education, training and library   183   199   207   215   192   211   200   215   218   233   218   208   191   4% Engineering   122   128   130   134   130   143   152   163   157   161   164   167   168   38% Environment, architecture and urbanism   97   95   99   98   91   93   95   102   96   103   102   102   101   4% Healthcare, social work   594   600   572   576   575   612   635   628   623   640   633   624   625   5% Hospitality and tourism   215   217   221   212   195   217   243   257   257   256   244   247   256   19% HR   85   87   86   88   85   90   93   95   95   96   95   95   94   11% IT   89   92   94   94   93   97   100   101   100   104   103   101   99   11% Legal   117   117   118   118   111   121   121   121   118