Demand for resume and job categories

Would you like to know which skills are in demand and which are not so much?
Take a look at the chart that compares the most popular jobs and resumes.

What job seekers are searching for?
Take a look at "administrative assistant jobs" background color. It's green. That means job seekers frequently search for "administrative assistant" jobs.
Take a look at "sales jobs" -- the background color is white. That means job seekers are not searching often for "sales" jobs (relative to the number of available sales jobs).

What recruiters are searching for?
Take a look at "pharmacist resumes". The background color is green. That means that recruiters often search for pharmacists (relative to the number of pharmacist resumes available).
Take a look at "warehouse resumes". The background color is white. That means that recruiters are not searching for "warehouse" resumes.

Surplus of resumes
Take a look at the pink bar in "administrative assistant" category.
It bends to the right, toward "administrative assistant resumes".
This indicates significant surplus of "administrative assistant" resume postings over "administrative assistant" job postings.

Surplus of jobs
"Pharmacist" surplus bar bends toward "pharmacist jobs". This indicates there is a relative surplus of "pharmacist jobs" over "pharmacist resumes".

Balance
Note that "Accounting" category is pretty balanced:
- There is no significant "accounting jobs" surplus nor "accounting resumes" surplus.
- Background colors of "accounting jobs" and "accounting resumes" are moderately green. That means that "accounting" job seekers and "accounting" recruiters are looking for each other.

Demand is relative
Note, that this chart shows demand relative to other categories. In today's economy it's not easy to find even relatively high demand job.

Job and Resume Categories

Recently we added categories to PostJobFree.com
So now you can browse jobs or resumes.
For example, take a look at the most popular sales category.

How do we define list of categories?
We took the most popular search query and used them as categories.

How do we rank categories?
1) The more people search for category -- the higher rank of this category is.
2) The more jobs (or resumes) category contain -- the lower rank of this category is.
3) Rank of job category may be quite different from the rank of resume category.
For example, "mail clerk" job category has high rating: job seekers search for it, and there are not so many jobs in "mail clerk" category.
At the same time "mail clerk" resume category has low rating: few recruiters searching for it, and there are lots of "mail clerk" resumes.