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The born Team's Analysis

The born Job Advertising Index took a further dip in April, dropping to just 51 points, down 4 points month-on-month.

The low level of the index underlines the current crisis in the online recruitment sector, with more than 91% of the job sites tracked experiencing year-on-year declines. A year-on-year comparison puts the index 43 points lower than this time last year. The index has experienced an on-going decline ever since.

From a sector perspective, Construction and Engineering seem to be worst hit, followed by Finance. Secretarial, Information Technology and Journalism/Print Publishing also join the list of badly hit sectors.

A few job sites did enjoy an improved April: JobTonic, Nursey Jobs and the InPharm were among the sites to experience positive advertising volume growth, month-on-month.

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