While looking for a job, it can be helpful to research different careers or industries to identify those that are on the rise—as well as those that are struggling. If you are interested in seeing how a particular career or industry is fairing (such as administration trends or healthcare trends), a great tool to use is Simply Hired’s Employment Trends.
The Trends tool displays the percentage of jobs that include your search terms anywhere in the listing as well as the percent increase or decrease since October 2007. This data, taken from millions of jobs in the Simply Hired index, graphs the peaks and valleys of your keywords over time.
If you are changing careers, this is a great way to see scope out jobs and industries that are doing well currently, as well as to see what skills are in high demand. For example, those people who are active and well versed on Twitter have many opportunities available to you. The graph for Twitter trends shows an increase of 3,096% since the end of 2007.
If you are looking at multiple opportunities, you can look at multiple keywords on one graph to compare the frequency of the terms in all jobs on SimplyHired.com. Just insert a comma between search terms to see them side by side on the graph. (Ex: iPhone vs. Android trends)
Also what’s really cool is that if you find an interesting trends graph for a certain keyword, you can share it with others by adding it to your website! To the right of the graph, you will see a “Grab This Graph” section. Just copy and paste the code to your site to embed it.
