[ne.jobs] Jan 6, 1991 Statistics - Boston area employers

narod@cfashap.harvard.edu (Joel Narod) (01/21/91)

Each count in the table below is the number of Massachusetts firms whose
Boston Sunday Globe advertisements since 1987 mention the adjacent skill
phrase.
 
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!    LANGUAGES       OPERATING SYSTEMS                            OTHER !
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!       C: 627              msdos: 887                   databases: 559 !
!   cobol: 285            VAX/VMS: 533                         lan: 377 !
! fortran: 194               unix: 471                     windows: 165 !
!  pascal: 123      ibm mainframe: 335       real time programming: 153 !
!   basic: 131          Macintosh: 203                                  !
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Furthermore, in the Boston Sunday Globe of 1/06/91, I found 118 advertisements
containing one or more of the 110+ skill phrases I track.  The large count in
this issue tells me there is still a significant need for certain skills in
Massachusetts.
 
The richness of this particular issue is reflected in the following statistics
for the number of advertisement FINDs in the 27 Boston Sunday Globe issues
during the last half of 1990:
 
   average advertisements found: 55.1
   minimum advertisements found: 14
   maximum advertisements found: 94
 
This data is from my catalog of 1600+ employers whose help wanted
advertisements for Massachusetts positions mention particular skill phrases.
These phrases cover software activities as well as more general business
functions.
 
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