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America has the most job openings in 15 years
cnn money ^ | 6-9-2015

Posted on 06/09/2015 11:48:10 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

American businesses have a lot of "we're hiring" signs up.

There were 5.4 million job openings in the U.S. in April -- the highest number of openings in 15 years.

It is a record high since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking monthly job openings in December 2000.

The surge in job openings this spring was even better than expected, according Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group.

It's another sign that the economy appears to be rebounding and the winter slowdown was just a blip.

Who's hiring? Over the past year, health care, business services and social assistance have seen the most openings. That trend continued in April with an uptick in health care positions.

Business across America are looking for employees, although the biggest increases in vacancies recently have been in the west.

The main industry that continues to struggle is mining and logging, which was hit hard by the dramatic decline in oil and other commodity prices in late 2014 and early 2015.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: helpwanted; obamarecession; obamataxhikes
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To: Citizen Zed; All
If it's a technology opening, 90% of the time it's just a requisite posting in advance of H-1b.

None of us can have the job.

21 posted on 06/09/2015 12:03:34 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: cuban leaf

The economy and the people of this country are total bunk. Everything is window dressing. Nobody does productive work anymore. We all pretend. Vast swaths of human beings are just a pure drain on society. Their numbers are increasing, they control the political institutions, and workers just get the shaft at every juncture.

Work is for the stupid.

Live off the fat of anyone who is stupid enough to work.

It’s the American Way.


22 posted on 06/09/2015 12:06:21 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (ISIS: Islam's Reformation)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Changing Tagline.


23 posted on 06/09/2015 12:07:18 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Live off the fat of anyone who is stupid enough to work. It's the American Way.)
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To: eyeamok
Great, now you tell me that the Degree in Lesbian Dance Theory I just got is worthless. Oh Well I can always go apply at Starbucks with the Business Degree graduates.

Oh NO! Don't do that. With my degree in Homoerotic Customs and Rituals of Bantu Peoples we can start a road show troupe and make a FORTUNE!!

24 posted on 06/09/2015 12:09:42 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Uncle Miltie

Most of the country have become unhappy caged zoo animals.


25 posted on 06/09/2015 12:13:41 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Citizen Zed

After this past winter, a whole lot of golf courses need entry-level help in maintenance and groundskeeping...


26 posted on 06/09/2015 12:14:19 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: cuban leaf
Extended:

"Most of the country have become unhappy caged zoo animals" who blame Republicans and vote for the Democrats who designed and operate their cages.

27 posted on 06/09/2015 12:14:53 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Live off the fat of anyone who is stupid enough to work. It's the American Way.)
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To: Citizen Zed

CNN lies.


28 posted on 06/09/2015 12:16:50 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: VRWCarea51

Sure...McDonald’s cooks, Jack in the Box drive thru operators, Domino pizza delivery drivers, drive thru car washes, Obamacare exchange handlers, etc...all 20ish hours a week with no benefits. Meanwhile the good ‘old’ jobs you used to be able to get with benefits and pension are being put to pasture because the companies can’t pay benefits like that any longer with all the increased costs, regulations, and taxes that are making it almost unprofitable to stay in business...


29 posted on 06/09/2015 12:18:07 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: eyeamok

You got a degree in that?

Hell, I licked that years ago....


30 posted on 06/09/2015 12:19:10 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Breaking Alert:....

(Interrupting this thread so you know)

Massive Explosions in Baghdad reported on Fox....just over the wires.

Isis did say they were going to take over Baghdad....we shall see.


31 posted on 06/09/2015 12:21:55 PM PDT by caww
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yep. It won’t end well when the zoo stops the food deliveries.


32 posted on 06/09/2015 12:27:28 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: DungeonMaster

My neighborhood’s McDonalds actually has such a “Now Hiring” sign displayed right now.


33 posted on 06/09/2015 12:29:58 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: VRWCarea51

How many of these “job openings” are redundant?
I’ve heard ads for use this software, post the job to every job board and social network.
It is then very easy for the same position to show up multiple times in some count of openings.


34 posted on 06/09/2015 12:32:16 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Interesting Times

Your post makes me feel microaggressed.


35 posted on 06/09/2015 12:34:00 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Citizen Zed

What a crock of s****. You can make statistics say anything you want - and this admin does just that. Only jobs I see are entry level, no benefits, under 30 hours/week. Older (over 40) workers look for weeks with little/no luck.


36 posted on 06/09/2015 12:38:12 PM PDT by joebobsr
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To: Citizen Zed

yeah maybe,,, but our schools cant provide enough qualified people to fill most of them... imho


37 posted on 06/09/2015 12:47:33 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Uncle Miltie

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3298526/posts


38 posted on 06/09/2015 12:48:32 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Lizavetta
Your post makes me feel microaggressed.

Thank you. My work here is done.

39 posted on 06/09/2015 12:48:58 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Thinks of all the jobs we have now, that we did not have before Obama.

1. Uber driver. Makes around $9.50 per hour after expenses.

2. Dollar Store employee. Minimum wage, in one of the few retail brick and mortar growth sectors.

3. Riot remediation. Reconstruct or demolish riot zones where persons expressed themselves.


40 posted on 06/09/2015 12:57:51 PM PDT by cicero2k
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