Indeed’s job postings index rose 0.7% from a year earlier, its first positive annual reading in almost four years, but new postings remain about 6% below the pre-pandemic baseline.
A posting is not an opening, and an opening is not a hire. July JOLTS showed 7.3 million openings and 5.1 million hires, and a new 41-country AI study shows how to use posting data without confusing the three.