New England tops in new online job offerings
Posted by Douglas Eisenhart at 10:13 AM

Good news! WorkIndex.com reports that The Conference Board, a leading research group that tracks major business indicators such as the Consumer Confidence Index, has announced the creation of a new report, the Help Wanted Online Data Series.

And guess what? Right out of the blocks, the leading region in the US is New England:

The New England region topped the United States in new online job offerings in June, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series(TM).
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All told, New England had 152,000 new online job postings in June, 157,000 in May and 139,000 in April. Boston led the way with 54,000 new online job offerings in June. Hartford posted about 12,000 and Providence about 11,000.

BostonWorks, as the region's leading job site in both number of listings and monthly page views (over 15 million in June) was a major contributor to that total. It is also great news for the region as it continues to rebound from its deep slump.

For more information on the new series, see the Conference Board site.