April 2025 Jobs Recap: Job market stuck in place as employers embrace wait-and-see approach.

Key Takeaways:

• The market remains strong for people with a job; it feels nearly frozen for many on the job hunt. This phenomenon takes root at the intersection of strong economic fundamentals and the intense uncertainty borne of Trump’s tariffs. At the moment, employers are hesitant either to hire additional workforce to execute on strategy that may be stale with next month’s D.C. edicts, or to lay off current employees should fortunes shift dramatically for the better.

U.S. Job Listings by Month | April 2024 - April 2025

The graph illustrates monthly job listing trends in the U.S., comparing new and removed job postings alongside total active listings.

LinkUp 10,000

The LinkUp 10,000 is an analytic published daily and monthly that captures the total U.S. job openings from the 10,000 global employers in LinkUp’s jobs dataset with the most U.S. openings.

Monthly LinkUp 10,000 | April 2022 - April 2025

Jobs Data By Industry (NAICS)

We’ve seen decline in labor demand across roughly half of sectors for the month of April. The three largest by percentage:

• Retail, General Merchandise (-4%)

• Healthcare (-3.5%)

• Food service (-2%)

Job Listings by Industry (NAICS) | April 2025

This chart displays the change in job listings across various industries, categorized by NAICS codes.

Jobs Data By Occupation (O*NET)

70% of occupations saw openings fall in March. The top three by percentage:

• Business and financial operations (-15%)

• Office and admin support (-10%)

• Sales and related (-4%)

Job Listings by Occupation (O*NET) | April 2025

This chart displays the change in job listings across various occupations, categorized by O*NET codes.

Closed Duration: Up in April to 46 days from 45 in March.

Closed duration, or the average number of days job listings remain live on company websites before removal, tracks hiring velocity across the U.S. economy. As the average duration increases, hiring velocity slows.

U.S. Job Listing By Month | April 2024 - April 2025

Companies Added

Every month, LinkUp indexes new companies to our database. In April, LinkUp added 845 additional employer websites.

Contact us if you are interested in obtaining the complete list of recently added companies.

DATA DISCLAIMERS

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