The U.S. Department of Labor reports the number of job openings in the public and private-sectors increased by 193,000 in January to a seasonally adjusted 2.7 million, which represents a 7.6 percent increase and is the highest level since February 2009. The job openings rate, which measures available jobs as a percentage of total employment, also [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
According to author, motivational speaker and networking expert Dave Sherman, 70% of jobs are unadvertised. In today’s job market, companies with openings don’t publish on job boards because when they do they are inundated with resumes, largely from unqualified applicants. Networking is one good way to find these unadvertised openings. Another good [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A new survey from the Labor Department says that job openings were up in September. Job openings were also up in August, making this the first two month increase since early 2007. This is good news for a struggling job market and many analysts are pointing to this as evidence that jobs are [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
According to the Department of Labor, there are 14.5 million unemployed workers chasing after 2.4 million full time jobs, a record ratio since 2000, when the government started keeping track of job openings. Layoffs have slowed, but new jobs are not being created and old jobs are not coming back. Uncertainty about the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 10, 2009
In December 2008, there were 2.7 million job openings, which was a 35% decrease from July 2007. July 2007 is cited as the beginning of the downward spiral in which jobs openings across the nation began to dwindle, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The rate of job openings, [...]
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