Though the U.S. economy started the year strong, things began to look less optimistic for job seekers as the coronavirus crisis gained momentum. Job postings on ZipRecruiter’s online employment marketplace were on the rise until Feb. 17. Since then, we have seen a 14% overall decrease.
But there are some positive trends. The number of e-commerce jobs has skyrocketed, rising 228% between the week of Feb. 17 and the week of March 16. Post office jobs are up 68%, warehousing jobs are up 13%, and forklift operator jobs are up 18% over the same period. We also see rapid job posting growth in health care, transportation and tutoring to meet the demand generated by the coronavirus crisis. Top titles with increased job postings over the past four weeks, as of March 25:
Health care
- Registered nurse, ambulatory: 47.56%
- LPN home health: 38.56%
- Intensive care nurse: 34.96%
- Associate medical director: 18.07%
- Registered nurse, emergency: 9.53%
Transportation
- CDL flatbed truck driver: 976.24%
- Class A CDL truck driver: 50.54%
- Truck driver: 13.70%
- Regional owner operator truck driver: 12.53%
- CDL A owner operator: 12.46%
Warehousing
- Warehouse handler: 1,677.33%
- Warehouse attendant: 569.40%
- Warehouse team member: 452.71%
- Warehouse laborer: 373.28%
- Warehouse sorter: 365.60%
Tutoring
- Online tutor: 233.49%
- Chemistry tutor: 10.14%
- Foreign language instructor: 9.12%