March Job Posting Trends: The Economic Ripple Effect of COVID-19

COVID-19 is creating ups and downs in job posting trends. Overall, job postings dropped considerably in March, accelerating to -32%. Yet while many employers are being forced to let people go and even more are in a hiring freeze, others are scrambling to fill thousands of critical new positions. We see many correlating increases and decreases in March’s job postings trends…plus a few curveballs we didn’t anticipate.