On the back of a stellar jobs report unveiled last Friday, I was asked by a reporter for Hearst Publications to take a look at our data for engineering job advertisements in the final quarter of 2014 and to compare them to the final quarter of 2013.

Across the board, every engineering discipline saw a marked increase in the number of jobs advertised on any given day in the final quarter of 2014 vs 2013.  What makes this particularly insightful for this year's recruiting - the…