The latest job posting numbers from December 3rd point to a continued need for talent professionals.

This is remarkable. Total job postings have risen, of course. In the US, they were 58% above February 1, 2020, the pre-pandemic baseline, after adjusting for seasonal variation. Postings were up 0.9 percentage points in the past week. In Australia, the rise is even more intense, coming in at 96% above the baseline.

HR jobs (a category which includes recruiting professionals) blows that away, coming in at 118% above the baseline, the highest category to do so.

This rise is all the more remarkable considering HR job posting were in the basement just over a year ago, during the height of global shut-downs, hitting a low of 56% below the pre-pandemic baseline in May 2020.

Pre-pandemic, HR roles were looked at as on the way out as automation gained traction across many of the industries functions. Now, with the fluidity of the workforce, and a rapidly shifting legal and logistical work-landscape, they are essential.

Some Vaccination Required

Job postings advertising that vaccination is required continue to rise, now 5.4% of all US job postings on Indeed.

Oddly, roles which can be done most-easily remotely, and/ or in offices where interactions can be performed at a distance, are the ones most-likely to require vaccination. Roles which are much higher-risk rarely call for it. Mathematics and software development have over 10% of their job postings advertising vaccination required, while food preparation & service and retail have barely 1% of job postings advertising vaccination required.

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