INTERNATIONAL: MEI up again, Germany remains main driver

Jobs board Monster reports a year-on-year growth of 10% in online recruitment activity, according to its Monster Employment Index (MEI), which surveys a number of job boards and career sites.
Fri, 9 March 2012
Jobs board Monster reports a year-on-year growth of 10% in online recruitment activity, according to its Monster Employment Index (MEI), which surveys a number of job boards and career sites.

However, as in previous months, Germany is the only country among the seven surveyed to show strong (28%) growth, with the UK and Italy seeing marginal improvements, and annual declines in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Sweden.The top growth industries were environment, architecture and urbanism (up 19%), ahead of engineering and telecommunication, both up 18%.

Across the region, the public sector, defence & community sector saw the most significant decline, at -8%, with management & consulting and legal roles the only others in negative territory, both at -3%.

Craft and related workers were the job roles with the most increase in online recruitment activity at 22%, although services and sales workers have the highest MEI reading of all sectors.

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