California loses 29,000 jobs in May; Hound finds 87,000 jobs in state.

June 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Pasadena, CA, June 20, 2011 – A survey of 42,000 California businesses has shown that the state lost 29,000 jobs in May.

The unemployment rate for the state was 11.7 percent, the second highest in the country, after Nevada. A federal survey of around 5,500 households in California shows that there were around 2.1 million unemployed people in the state in May. California has gained only 87,500 jobs in the last 12 months.

California’s Bay Area also saw job losses of around 2,000 people. The losses there were primarily in the hi-tech sector. While some regions such as Sonoma County gained 1,700 jobs, others such as San Joaquin County lost 1,400 jobs. California’s figures were consistent with the downturn in the country’s job creation rate in May. There were only 54,000 jobs created nationwide last month.

Hound, a job search engine, has seen an increase in the number of job postings available only on employer websites. CEO Harrison Barnes attributes it to the fact that a lot of small businesses are usually reluctant to shell out hundreds of dollars on the usual job boards.

Hound, being a job search engine (http://www.hound.com/gjbrowsejobs.php), gathers jobs directly from employer websites and has found almost 87,000 jobs available in California. The sectors with the most job openings were: healthcare (17,000+), sales (9,000+), customer service (6,000+), and financial services (4,500+).

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Hound is the world leader in the monitoring and reporting of jobs on employer websites, through its active and growing research into all employers throughout the world. With over 300 employees working round the clock, Hound goes to employer websites, collects information about job openings, and reports everything it finds to its members. Hound visits more than 30,000 employer websites.

Hound has been named one of the Top 20 Best Job Sites by PC Magazine, the #1 Job website by Applicant.com and among the 10 Best Online Job Search Sites by geeksugar. Hound is a company owned by Employment Research Institute, one of the world's largest conglomerates of job search-related companies.