The Job Offers Barometer drops in October – BIEC, KM UITM
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The Job Offers Barometer, indicating changes in the number of employment offers published on the Internet, fell in October 2019 against the September reading, the Investment and Economic Cycles Office (BIEC) and the Department of Macroeconomics at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów said. The value of the index in October was 247.9 points against 250.1 points in September.
The authors of the report state that this year is the seventh fall in the index. In relation to January, the index lost as much as 9% of the value, and from the peak of its capabilities of November 2018 – 14%.
“The shrinking of the number of vacancies lasts longer than in the previous period of recession in 2013, and we have not seen such a sharp decline since the financial crisis in 2008-2009,” the report reads.
(PAP)
