July 2012 Index Highlights:

• The Monster Employment Index Europe demonstrates two percent growth year-over-year in July, relatively consistent with June's one percent rise

• Germany continues to lead all regions at 13 percent growth, while Sweden remains flat

• The Netherlands, France, Italy, Belgium and UK all report reduced demand in online recruitment activity year-over-year

• Environment, architecture, urbanism (up 16 percent) remains the leading growth sector for the third consecutive month while Education (up 11 percent) reports increased annual growth and places second in the Index

• Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure remains at the bottom of July's Index and is joined by Banking, finance insurance which registers the same rate of annual decline in online hiring activity

The Monster Employment Index Europe is a monthly gauge of online job posting activity based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career web sites and online job listings across Europe. The Index does not reflect the trend of any one advertiser or source, but is an aggregate measure of the change in job listings across the industry.

"Germany remains the growth driver of online recruitment across Europe, providing buoyancy to an otherwise muted labour market," commented Alan Townsend, Vice President of Sales Readiness and Business Operations for Monster Europe. "However, while the uncertain outlook of the EuroZone continues to impact recruitment levels, it is encouraging to see over half of industries remain positive in July, with sectors such as architecture, education and manufacturing seeing stronger demand."

Feb 11	Mar 11	Apr 11	May 11	Jun 11	Jul 11	Aug 11	Sep 11	Oct 11	Nov 11	Dec 11	Jan 12	Feb 12	Mar 12	Apr 12	May 12	Jun 12	Jul 12	Y-O-Y GROWTH
125	131	136	135	140	139	139	138	139	139	136	127	138	142	144	143	142	142	2%

Industry Year-over-year Trends: 15 of the 24 industry sectors monitored by the Index in July exhibited positive annual growth trends.

• Environment, architecture and urbanism (up 16 percent) led all industries by measure of annual growth for the third consecutive month in July

• Education, training, library (up 11 percent) continued to report increased opportunities in online recruitment compared to year-ago levels, extending a positive growth trend that began in February

• The Real Estate sector (up nine percent) reported a solid increase in online hiring activity for the third consecutive month and remained in the top five Index rankings

• Public sector, defence, community (down one percent) saw a slight uptick in annual online recruitment compared to last month's five percent decline and moved up the Index after placing at the bottom of June's Index rankings

• Banking, finance, insurance (down four percent) saw further reductions in online recruitment in July and joined Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure (down four percent) as the industries to report the lowest demand

Lowest Growth Industries

Industry	Jul11	Jul12	%Y-O-Y Growth
Sales	110	108	-2%
Marketing, PR and media	147	144	-2%
HR	95	93	-2%
Arts, entertainment, sports, leisure	116	111	-4%
Banking, finance, insurance	89	85	-4%

Occupation Year-over-year Trends: Six of the nine occupational groups monitored by the Index in July exhibited positive growth trends.

• This month Plant and machine operators and assemblers (up eight percent) took the lead by measure of annual growth with a significant increase compared to the one percent growth measured in June

• Technicians and associate professionals (up six percent) also noted improved growth, where annual online recruitment has increased across this sector for the past 28 months

• Managers (down five percent) continued a four month consecutive decline in online recruitment and matched its annual rate of growth recorded in June, placing bottom of the Index
  

Lowest Growth Occupations

Occupation	Jul11	Jul 12	%Y-O-Y Growth
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers	208	205	-1%
Elementary occupations	195	192	-2%
Managers	118	112	-5%

The full monthly Monster Employment Index reports for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom will be made available on Tuesday, 14 August at 06:00 CET at:
about-monster.com/employment/index/17.

Data for the month of August 2012 will be released on September 7th, 2012.

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About The Monster Employment Index Europe
The Monster Employment Index Europe provides monthly insight into online job posting activity across the European Union. Launched in June 2005 with data from December 2004, the Index is based on a review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large, representative selection of corporate career sites and job boards, including Monster. The Monster Employment Index's underlying data is validated for accuracy by Research America, Inc. - an independent, third-party auditing firm - to ensure that measured national online job recruitment activity is within a margin of error of +/- 1.05%.

The Index monitors online job opportunities across all European Union member countries.

The monthly reports for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Europe are available at: http://about-monster.com/employment/index/17.

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