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If you want data on it; the St Louis Fed has some really good stats for job postings on Indeed in various sectors going back to 2020. They're rough in a lot of industries:

IT Operations and Help Desk: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPITOPHE

Software Development: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

Banking and Finance: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPBAFI

Hospitality and Tourism: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPHOTO

Scientific Research: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSCREDE

Electrical Engineering is going pretty well though: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPELECENGI

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Great info but I feel it's missing an important piece i.e. the number of layoffs. The issue is never the number of jobs posted but the ratio of job searchers to jobs.

I disagree on the quality. Google trends reflects a general decline of Indeed popularity, which could lead to fewer postings.

However yeah, places aren't really hiring. Absurdly gerrymandered roles and specific tech stacks point to probably more backrubs than hiring. Which is fine, if you want crony mcauthorized knuckledragger, take him, your product, your marketing, your teams, your contracts, and your whole history, and gtm.

It looks pretty flat to me over the last 5 years which roughly corresponds with their data:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Maybe a small decrease over the last year.

In addition to being a job board, Indeed is a job aggregator. It scoops up listings from job boards and company websites and allows searching through them, with links to the original listing.

It is not perfect—it misses many postings across the web. But as long as its miss rate hasn't gotten much worse over the past few years, the data presented above is still valid.

my experience with indeed, simply put: it rewrote my cv: added degrees i do not have and upgraded the one I have. That was the end of it for me. Perhaps, your mileage may vary.

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