Over 25 percent fewer job ads in the marketing and communications sector
An analysis of Jobs.ch published by Blick shows that the job market in the marketing and communications industry has slumped by 26 percent compared to February. However, the situation looks even bleaker in other industries.
The figures from the job portal Jobs.ch, which View exclusively available and which compare the number of job advertisements per sector between February and mid-May, show a gloomy picture, as expected. The hospitality/hotel sector (-71%), graphic design/typography (-48%) and tourism/travel (-45%) were hit particularly hard. Vacancies in the media and printing sector shrank by 30 percent. Marketing/communications got off relatively lightly with a drop of 26%.
The "Security/Police" (+14 percent) and "Construction/Architecture/Engineering" (+17 percent) sectors recorded an increase.
The fact that the service sector has been badly affected by the current crisis is new, says Daniel Kopp from the Economic Research Center at ETH Zurich to View. The economic crisis in 2009 and the Swiss franc shock in 2015 primarily affected industry.
