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This is part of a series of articles to make your job hunting experience more meaningful with JobStreet.com.

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Do check back on 30 Nov 2009 for more tips!

JECI poll, Sep 2009

This is the summary of job seekers' confidence in the job market in this region in Sep 2009:

• In Malaysia, the upward trend in the JobStreet ECI was checked as it dipped slightly from 50.2 points in August to 48.7 points in September. However, we do not consider this to be any cause for concern for the moment as the general trend shown since February this year has been a steady growth.
• The JobStreet ECI for Singapore, which had been relatively stable in the past three months, improved by 1.3 point to 44.6 in September as job seekes continued to show increase confidence in the Singaporean job market.
• Growth in the JobStreet ECI for the Philippines remained unchanged where the September index ended at 56.7 points which was a wee bit lower than the 56.9 points of the previous month.
• In Indonesia, the JobStreet ECI also took a short breather as it trended slightly lower by 0.6 points from August to end the month at 52.2 points. 
• The India JobStreet ECI was stable with their index increasing slightly to 57.7 points in September, up by 0.5 points from the August index level.

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The JobStreet.com Employment Confidence Index (ECI) is a measure of job seeker confidence in finding a job in the countries where we hold our monthly polls.

JECI poll, Aug 2009

Confidence in the job market in this region continues to improve in Aug 2009.

• In Malaysia, the JobStreet ECI trended higher for the sixth consecutive month by improving to 50.2 points, an increase of 0.5 point over the July index of 49.7 points. Since February this year, the JobStreet ECI for Malaysia has gone up by 7.1 points.
• The JobStreet ECI for Singapore has been relatively stable in the past three months, remaining almost unchanged since June when it registered at 43.5 points. In July, the index was at 43.4 while the August index for Singapore settled at 43.3 points.
• Stability is also observed in the JobStreet ECI for the Philippines where the August index ended at 56.9 points. In July, the index was at 57.0 points, which was a small drop of 0.1 point from the previous month.
• There seemed to be a lot of confidence in job market for Indonesia as their JobStreet ECI continued to move up in recent months. For August, their index rose by a further 0.8 point to 52.8 from the July index of 52.0 points.
• However in India, we noted a slight softening in their employment confidence for the second consecutive month. For August, the JobStreet ECI declined slightly to 57.2 points, which was a drop of 0.3 point from the 57.5 registered in July. In June, their index level was at 57.9 points.

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The JobStreet.com Employment Confidence Index (ECI) is a measure of job seeker confidence in finding a job in the countries where we hold our monthly polls.

JECI Poll, Jun 2009

Confidence in the job market in this region continues to improve.

• In Malaysia, the JobStreet ECI edged higher for the fourth consecutive month by improving 0.7 point to end June at 48.5 points. This is the highest so far since reaching a low point in February this year.
• There was also cheer In Singapore as the JobStreet ECI registered 43.5 points at the end of June, a level not attained since the global recession hit the country in the last quarter of 2008.
• Confidence is also returning to the Indian job market with their JobStreet ECI at 57.9 points in June, which is a rise of 1.3 points over the previous month.
• The Indonesian JobStreet ECI also showed a slight 0.2 point improvement to 51.0 points while in the Philippines, their JobStreet ECI level was relatively unchanged at 57.1 points.

JECI Poll, May 2009

Are we seeing some early signs of confidence returning to the job market? For the past two months or so, the JobStreet.com Employee Confidence Index (ECI) has given rise to the hope that the worst may be over in this region with continuing encouraging news that the global recession could be slowing down and life has returned to the stock market.

• In Malaysia, the JobStreet ECI climbed higher for the second consecutive month by improving 0.9 point to end April at 47.8 points.
• In Singapore, it was a four-point jump to 42.8 points, the JobStreet ECI's highest level since December last year.
• In the Philippines and India, their JobStreet ECI levels were relatively unchanged at 57.2 points and 56.6 points respectively.
• Meanwhile in Indonesia, there was a slight drop in their JobStreet ECI to 50.8 points.

JECI Poll, Apr 2009

In April, the JobStreet.com Employee Confidence Index (ECI) brought relief to some countries in the region. Except for Singapore, the JobStreet ECI for Malaysia, the Philippines and India moved northwards in line with encouraging news that the global recession could be slowing down.

• In Malaysia, the JobStreet ECI put on its best show for 2009, improving by 3.1 points to end the month at 46.9 points.  
• In India, the confidence level rebounded to 56.5 points, going up by 1.4 points from the previous month. It's still below the level recorded in January, which was 58.6 points.
• In the Philippines, there was also some cheer with the JobStreet ECI going up by 0.8 points to 57.0 points.
• However in Singapore, the rise in the confidence level registered in March could not be sustained and the JobStreet ECI dropped by two points to 38.8 points.

We would also like to mention the formal introduction of the JobStreet ECI for Indonesia. The index had a soft launch 15 months ago in January 2008 and is now a permanent feature on the JobStreet.com Indonesian website. JobStreet.com members from Indonesia are encouraged to visit the JobStreet ECI webpage to cast their votes and make their opinions known. In April, the index settled at 51.5 points.

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The JobStreet.com Employment Confidence Index is a measure of job seeker confidence in finding a job in the countries where we hold our monthly polls.

JECI poll, Mar 2009

After some months of decline and volatility in the JobStreet.com Employee Confidence Index in the region, March seems to be brought about some stability in three of the countries where we are running the indices.

• In Malaysia, the JobStreet ECI improved marginally by 0.7 points to end the month at 43.8 points.  
• In Singapore, there was a bit more confidence as the JobStreet ECI rose to 40.8 points from the previous month's 39.5 points.
• In the Philippines, there was also some cheer with the JobStreet ECI going up by 1.3 points to end the month at 56.2 points.
• However in India, confidence continued to be affected. The JobStreet ECI declined by a further 1.4 points to finish at 55.1 points. This is the lowest registered in the country since Dec 2003.

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The JobStreet.com Employment Confidence Index is a measure of job seeker confidence in finding a job in the countries where we hold our monthly polls.

JECI poll, Feb 2009

February was a bad month for job seekers in the region. The world's economy continued to be battered by bad news - still with no end in sight - and job seeker confidence in the four countries, measured by the JobStreet.com Employee Confidence Index - declined correspondingly.

We wouldn't want to delve into the bad news but two pieces of news stood out in the last couple of week.

in Malaysia, the Human Resources Minister said that the number of temporarily laid-off workers rose to 80,000 and the number retrenched was about 15,000. "The electrical, electronics and textile manufacturing are most badly hit," he said. And in Singapore, as many as 10,000 workers could be retrenched in the first three months of this year. Such news only add to the worries over the local job market.

So how did the JobStreet.com Employee Confidence Index perform in February?

• In Malaysia, the JobStreet ECI went down by another 1.8 points to end the month at 43.1 points. It had ended January on 44.9 points. 
• In Singapore, the JobStreet ECI fell to 39.5 points, which was a decline of 2.9 points from the January index of 42.4 points.
• In the Philippines, the JobStreet ECI dropped steeply by 3.9 points to 54.9 points.
• And in India, the weak job market continued to affect the JobStreet ECI which finished at 56.5 points, lower by 2.1 points from the 58.6 points registered in the previous month.

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The JobStreet.com Employment Confident Index is a measure of job seeker confidence in finding a job in the countries where we hold our monthly polls.

JECI poll, Jan 2009

 

The worldwide downturn continues to make its impact on the countries in this region with the most unwelcomed consequence for job seekers being the mounting unemployment and job losses as companies cut their staff or reduce their work days.

The JobStreet.com Employee Confidence Index (JECI) continues to be impacted as well.

• In Malaysia, the JobStreet ECI fell by 2.4 points to end January at 44.9 points. Employee confidence is at its lowest point since August 2005.
• In India, their Index also continued to drop and at the end of January, stood at 58.6 points, lower by 0.9 points from the previous month.
• In Singapore, the JobStreet ECI held steady at 42.4 points and was unchanged from December last year.
• Meanwhile, employee confidence in the Philippines looked good as their Index improved by 0.6 points to 58.8 points.

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The JobStreet.com Employment Confident Index is a measure of job seeker confidence in finding a job in the countries where we hold our monthly polls.

JECI Poll, Dec 2008

Another month has come and gone, and if there is any consolation where the JobStreet.com Employee Confidence Indices (JECI) are concerned, the steep falls in November were somehow checked in December.

Indeed among all the countries where we have been running the JobStreet.com ECI, the Index in the Philippines recovered and even posted a positive gain by bouncing back to 58.2 points from the previous month's 56.7 points.

Last week, a Bloomberg analysis quoted an economics expert in saying that the world will be in for a protracted U-shaped recession. With the world continuing to be beset by economic and financial concerns, how much of the job market will be affected and when will we finally see the start of some recovery?

In the meantime, Malaysia's JobStreet ECI in December fell minimally by 0.3 point to 47.3 points. In Singapore, the Index lost 0.8 point to 42.4 points while in India, the Index shed 1.4 points to 59.7 points.

Finally, here is a comparison of the JobStreet ECI in the four countries for December 2007 and 2008.  Apart from the Philippines where the year-on-year index showed a flat zero change, the indices in Malaysia, Singapore and India registered net declines as employee confidence in finding jobs were battered by bad news in the economy and job markets. Singapore's decline was the steepest with a 27 percent drop, followed by a 14 percent drop in India and a five percent in Malaysia.

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The JobStreet.com Employment Confident Index is a measurement of job seeker confidence in finding a job in the countries where we hold our monthly polls.