Job Openings

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) -- Employers posted more job openings in June and layoffs fell, a sign that hiring could improve a bit in the coming months. The number of available jobs rose to 3.1 million, up from 3 million in May, the Labor Department said Wednesday. It was the highest total ...

Unemployment numbers may have gone up in May, but at least there's some good news from the job front: Online advertised vacancies were up 148,800 in May to 4,471,200, with thousands of new openings listed in eight occupations including sales, office and administrative support. According to the latest ...

U.S. job openings in March were the most in 2-1/2 years, a government report showed on Wednesday, pointing to a firming labor market tone. Job openings -- a measure of labor demand -- rose 99,000 to 3.12 million, the highest since September 2008, the Labor Department said in its monthly Job Openings and Labor ...

There were 3.1 million job openings on the last business day of February 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics -- that's the highest number in two and a half years, and a marked increase from the 2.7 million job openings in January. Meanwhile, job search website CareerBuilder saw a 23 ...

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer Businesses in February posted the largest number of job openings in more than two years, evidence that hiring is picking up as the economy grows. The Labor Department said Wednesday that employers advertised 3.1 million available jobs that month, the most ...

You might have noticed that your online job search is taking a bit longer these days, and there are also more opportunities available. It's a sign of the times during the recovery; online advertised vacancies more than doubled in March, rising from 208,800 to 4,454,500. That's according to the most recent data ...

"Middle-skill" workers -- those with more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year degree -- are currently in hot demand. The state of New York alone has projected that it will have nearly a million job openings for these workers by 2018. That's according to a new study that also says the state ...

Further proving that if you're a good software engineer, you can write your own ticket, Palo Alto, California-based tech firm Hewlett-Packard (HP) was advertising 2,383 openings at last count, with openings for software developers, testers, designers, business operations specialists, strategic development ...

Even though the U.S. isn't creating jobs nearly fast enough to employ all those who are out of work and looking, at least the number of job openings in December held pretty much steady, at 3.1 million. That's down only slightly from the 3.2 million jobs available in November, according to the latest numbers ...