Indeed Hiring Lab
Research arm of the jobs platform Indeed.
Indeed Hiring Lab reported on 23 July that US senior-level job postings have risen 15% year-on-year while entry-level postings fell 6.3%, widening the gap between experienced and graduate hiring.
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Indeed Hiring Lab is the labour-market research Arm of the jobs platform Indeed, producing regular data on hiring, wages and job-posting trends in the United States and other markets.
Its job-postings data is tracked by category and seniority level, giving it visibility into structural shifts, such as a narrowing entry-level market, that aggregate hiring or unemployment figures can miss.
That granularity underpinned its July 2026 finding of a widening gap between senior and entry-level postings, cited alongside other economists' work questioning whether record-low jobless claims reflect real labour-market health.
Its data shows entry-level hiring lagging
Indeed Hiring Lab, the research Arm of the jobs platform Indeed, reported on 23 July 2026 that senior-level job postings in the United States had risen 15% year-on-year while entry-level postings fell 6.3%.
Its data shows experienced workers increasingly applying for graduate-level roles, one of several findings this fortnight pointing to a widening gap between senior and entry-level hiring in the US labour market even as headline jobless-claims figures fell to a 57-year low.
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