I have some more datapoints from jobs aggregated on Joblighted (24 sites): http://joblighted.com/statistics http://joblighted.com/statistics There were indeed

I have some more datapoints from jobs aggregated on Joblighted (24 sites): http://joblighted.com/statistics http://joblighted.com/statistics There were indeed more jobs posted in January 2009. Though probably much of this increase is cyclical. In two previous years there was the same pattern - a decline in December followed by an increase in January. http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Feb2009_monthly.png http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Feb2009_monthly.png http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Feb2009_weekly.png http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Feb2009_weekly.png (Please note that I kept adding job sites, which could hide some of the decline in job postings).