narod@cfashap.harvard.edu (Joel Narod) (01/26/91)
STATISTICS UPDATE FROM THE JANUARY 13, 1991 BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
Each count in the table below is the number of Massachusetts firms
whose Boston Sunday Globe help wanted advertisements since 1987
mention the adjacent skill phrase.
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! LANGUAGES OPERATING SYSTEMS OTHER !
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! C: 635 msdos: 901 databases: 565 !
! cobol: 287 VAX/VMS: 536 lan: 386 !
! fortran: 195 unix: 478 windows: 170 !
! pascal: 126 ibm mainframe: 339 real time programming: 158 !
! basic: 131 Macintosh: 205 !
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For the above skill phrases, the top count gainers since the previous
issue, in declining order, are: Lan, C, Unix and databases
In this latest issue, I found 93 advertisements containing one or more
of the 110+ skill phrases I track. Although 93 is 21% below the 118
high seen last week, 93 is barely below the peak seen in the entire
last half of 1990.
For comparison purposes, note the following statistics for the number
of advertisement FINDs in the 27 Boston Sunday Globe issues during the
last half of 1990:
ADVERTISEMENTS FOUND
average: 55.1
minimum: 14
maximum: 94
This data is from my catalog of 1600+ employers whose help wanted
advertisements for Massachusetts jobs mention particular skill
phrases. These phrases cover more general business functions as well
as computer related activities. I compile company information skill
phrases. This data helps me minimize competition when marketing my
database application consulting skills.
REPLYers to my news group postings expressed interest in these
statistics. I hope this information is useful.
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Joel Narod email: narod@cfashap.harvard.edu Tel: (617)259-0753