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It's not getting any easier to find a job online, according to new information from the Conference Board.  It seems that, in a broad sense, advertised job vacancies are continuing to decrease in number.

In June of this year, there were 3,800,600 posted openings.  In June of 2007, there were a whopping 480,000 (or 11.2 percent) more.  A single dip like this would be bad enough, but a press release states, "This is the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year declines for the nation as a whole."

The trend is hard to spin in a good way, since it's unlikely employers are going back to newspapers and signs in the window.  Perhaps everyone's moving to social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook, instead, and finding people through friends.

The Conference Board's report offers at least one tiny bit of good news, though: there were more advertised vacancies in June than May, with only 3,795,400 being noticed two months ago.

As for the future, it's back to doom and gloom.  Gad Levanon, the Conference Board's senior economist stated, "Employment declines are likely to continue through the summer.  Spring is typically a time of seasonal increases in labor demand, but not this year.  The number of online job ads held steady in June, but considering the declines in advertised vacancies for all of 2008, there is little evidence of any rise in labor demand."