Job adverts reach highest level for year Photo: Shutterstock Despite continuing Covid restrictions and the looming threat of Brexit with either no deal or an unsatisfactory deal, the number of job adverts reached a 2020 high in early December. According to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), this was a major boost for hopes of growth for 2021. However, the figures also show a slight slowdown in new job posting activity. The REC’s job recovery tracker, produced with analytics firm Emsi, analysed the days between 23 November and 6 December and found there were 1.40 million active job adverts in the first week of December, the highest weekly total this year.