The number of online help-wanted advertisements for Hawaiçi tumbled between July 2008 and July 2009, with 3,900 fewer vacancies being advertised.

That’s one of the findings in The Conference Board’s latest Help-Wanted Online Data Series, which also found the number of jobs offered though Internet ads fell nationally.
The report found there were 15,700 jobs advertised statewide during July, or about 20 percent less than the 19,600 offered a year earlier.
Hawaiçi, like the rest of the nation, is going through a troublesome economic downturn that has produced the highest unemployment rate in 31 years at 7.4 percent, and cut the number of jobs available in the state.