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A global leader in web data management services, labor market intelligence, and recruitment technology, founded in 2008.

Aspen, Colorado
Joined February 2009
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Interesting split in this week's hiring data. AMD and Cloudflare - down 15.6% and 10.3% over the last 30 to 90 days. Palantir's headcount is up almost 16% over the same stretch. McKesson and onsemi are up roughly 18% and 10% in postings alongside 20% and 70% stock gains.
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H&R Block opens Tax Season 2027 hiring Aug 3. We've tracked this cycle since 2022: peak seasonal roles are down nearly 50%, plateauing ~20K lower than 2022/23. They launched AI filing tools in 2023. Correlation isn't causation, but worth watching.
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UK Q2 Job Postings Report is now live! UK job vacancies are up 2.5% YoY. AI Specialist postings are up 95.7%. Cashier postings are down 36.4%. Our newsletter breaks down what's actually driving Q2 2026 UK hiring. 👇 linkedin.com/pulse/what-q2-2…
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6.45M job postings (+3.7% YoY). Median pay up 6.1%. But June payrolls missed by 58K. U.S. Q2 2026's labor market doesn't add up cleanly; we break down why, sector by sector. 👇 linkedin.com/pulse/what-q2-2…
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We joined @CareerXroads to talk Job Market Pulse: clean postings from 300K+ career sites, ~100M active job seeker records, real salary benchmarks (not surveys), pay transparency alerts, and an AI risk score for roles. Full episode below: youtube.com/live/wEsVfVnHMmU…
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IBM promised 750 new AI/quantum jobs and tripled entry-level hiring plans. The data disagrees: postings down 46% over 90 days, steepest drop we're tracking. Stock got a boost from $2B in gov quantum funding. Stock's reacting to announcements, hiring data isn't.
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Kestra Medical's hiring is up 35% over 90 days. The stock is flat YTD despite an 82% YoY gain. Company reports FY26 Q4 earnings July 14. Hiring accelerations like this often show up before the market prices them in. Worth watching.
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Goldman said the World Cup would add 40k jobs. BLS says hospitality lost 61k in June instead. But postings across the 11 host cities are up 2.9% YoY, security roles up 6.3%. Miami's up 36%. The hiring's real, it's just hiding from BLS's categories.
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Manufacturing employment falling at its fastest rate since the pandemic. Yet production & maintenance job postings are up 3.8% YoY. Both can be true. Postings measure intent. Employment measures what already happened. #Manufacturing #LaborMarketData #AspenTechLabs
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EU Pay Transparency Directive passed June 7. Only 4 of 27 member states met the deadline. The gap between countries moving forward and those delaying is already visible in job posting data. #PayTransparency #EUDirective #AspenTechLabs
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Texas: 562K active vacancies in May. Engineering +26.6% YoY. DFW up 5.1%, Austin +3.4%. Two hiring economies in one state — consumer sectors flat, industrials and deep tech accelerating. #Texas #LaborMarket #AspenTechLabs
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SpaceX lists today ($SPCX). We've tracked their job postings for 3 years. Hiring is up 150% from its 2024 trough — now at an all-time high of 1,752 open roles, with Q2 2026 tracking +37% YoY. The workforce data was signaling this long before the IPO.
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Stock prices reflect results. Hiring reflects strategy. This week's earnings reporters — PANW, AVGO, CRWD, LULU, MDT — are already signaling intent through job postings. The divergences matter. #HiringSignals #EarningsWeek
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44 of 51 states seeing hiring declines in 2026. But 4 cities are bucking the trend — hard. One metro up 21.9% YoY. One contractor up 545%. One employer went from 64 to 427 open roles overnight. The hiring map has been redrawn 👇 bit.ly/3PBbNI7
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AI and data centers are driving the sharpest hiring divergences we've seen this year. WESCO +121% stock YoY. Semtech +325%. UiPath -31.7% YTD. Agilent -15.2%. Hiring signals often move before earnings do. #HiringTrends #AspenTechLabs
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Colorado ranked 5th nationally for job vacancy growth in Q1 2026. Postings up 11.9% QoQ, outpacing the US average of 9.4%. Median salary hit $66,560 — above the national median. Full report: bit.ly/4tV3Vz8
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