Uncovering the most competitive job markets for a resume builder
What we did
To help job seekers get a better sense of the current job market, we identified the most competitive cities and states where to find a new role by calculating how many people on average apply for jobs within one week of a listing being posted.
How we did it
Step 1: Seed list building
We built a seed list of cities including the 20 most populated cities in the U.S., Canada, the UK and Australia, plus an additional 50 cities from around the world.
Step 2: Data gathering
We analyzed job adverts published on LinkedIn Jobs across all 130 cities to calculate the average (mean) number of applicants that a job ad receives within one week of being posted in each location.
Step 3: Data cleaning and analysis
When creating our final rankings, we filtered out locations that had fewer than 100 jobs available to apply for and those posted longer than seven days before the data was retrieved.
Step 4: Yearly update and relaunch
We updated the data year on year, allowing Resume.io to continue leading the conversation around job competition, including fresh, comparable data at a regional level.
The results
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Big Wins
The cherry on top
Our report not only earned regional coverage across our client’s target countries (United States, Canada and Australia), but also got the attention of reporters from around the globe — from Tel Aviv to Dubai, and from Madrid to Hong Kong.
The campaign assets
"If you’re in the market for a new job, you’ll find the most competition in the Middle East and California’s tech hubs.
Doha, Dubai and San Francisco are among the places that had the highest number of candidates per LinkedIn job posting in February, according to a study from online resume builder Resume.io. To create its ranking, the company looked at 130 global cities and every US state and tracked how many applications were submitted to roles in the first week after they were advertised."
Mia Gindis
Bloomberg
