Ohio is one of a handful of states - including North Carolina, Minnesota, and Washington - to show an overall increase in online listings this year, while most other states saw the number of online help-wanted ads decline or stay flat.
“The national trend in labor demand, while positive in the first quarter of 2011, turned negative in the second quarter,’’ said June Shelp, vice president at The Conference Board, an independent business membership and research association.
The government’s figures are based on a monthly survey of first-time job listings and jobs re-posted from the previous month on more than 1,200 Internet job sites.
The Conference Board also calculates the ratio of unemployed workers to online job listings, and Ohio fared better than many other states and the nation as a whole in that category as well.
In Ohio, there were 3.05 unemployed workers for every vacancy advertised online. That compares to a U.S. supply-demand ratio of 3.22.
Only one state had more online job listings than unemployed workers: North Dakota, with a supply-demand ratio 0.89.
The state with the highest supply-demand ratio was Mississippi, where there are nearly eight unemployed workers for every online advertised vacancy.
Nationally, there are 9.7 million more unemployed workers than advertised vacancies.
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