Our businesses are hiring again, but there are still five unemployed workers for each job opening.
The percent of owners with a job opening peaked at 34% in 2000 (compared to 15% today).
Today, there are more than four job-seekers for every job opening in America.
In addition, the ratio of unemployed persons to each job opening has consistently held steady at three to one.
As so often happens, there was no formal job opening at the company.
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You wait to see if any of your Facebook friends mentions a job opening or if you see jobs listed through Twitter.
At a time when there are four applicants for every job opening, increased motivation among job seekers is unlikely to significantly reduce the unemployment rate.
So, I didn't buy into it, but it just happened that there was a full-time job opening that came up after volunteering for six months.
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While GoogleDocs has done a wonderful job opening up collaboration features to consumer and SMB audiences, it still has not seen significant adoption for big business processes.
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As of January 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were three unemployed people for each job opening, roughly the same number as a year ago.
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This is because even with the proliferation of myriad recruiting software packages and services, it can still take months for a small or mid-size company to fill a job opening.
Facebook says this can be helpful if someone wants to send a message to someone who they say speak at a conference or to contact someone about a job opening.
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Let's offer incentives to companies that hire Americans who've got what it takes to fill that job opening, but have been out of work so long that no-one will give them a chance anymore.
Jeff Weiner, the firm's boss, imagines that eventually every job opening and its requisite skills will be digitally searchable by every potential candidate, reducing the friction that lets millions of vacancies co-exist with high unemployment.
Or have Human Resources use their own code or computer codes to glean certain buzz words, dates, phrases that enable them to focus on resumes of those under 40 for any job opening they may have.
That's another fair point, although I think individual effort only goes so far when there are 3.4 unemployed workers for every job opening in the United States in December, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) headquarters in nearby Redmond likely contributes to its low ratio of 2.8 job seekers per opening.
We ought not be playing politics with the unemployment benefits of those that have lost their jobs and are in an economy where there are five job applicants for every opening.
"The lingering problem of job losses has created an opening for the Democratic candidate, making it possible for Mr Kerry to win a state with strong Republican leanings, " he says.
He was also the sovereign who offered to send some of his elephants to the United States, where he believed they would do a better job than steam engines in opening up the country for settlement.
The government has increased spending on job creation and infrastructure expansion and is opening up utilities to greater private sector involvement.
When the Yelp employee gets the email, she can either post it as a status update on her own, click on a link that automatically updates her status with information about the job, or click on another link that sends news of the opening to the people in her networks who the Jobvite algorithm deems likely to be suitable for the job.
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The job losses have been largely offset by the opening, a few miles away, of two vast casinos on Indian land (see article).
It was pretty much a backs to the wall job for Mowbray's side in the opening stages and Ashley Williams headed just over from a corner.
And we all have friends, neighbors, or family members who already knows how hard it is to land a job when five workers are competing for every opening.
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In the end, the male student got the opening and Rife was offered a secretarial job.
With 1.18 candidates for each opening, the odds of landing a job here are in your favor.
Because of budget cuts, California's capital, Sacramento, is one of the worst cities on the list to find a job, with 5.5 candidates for every opening.
Not only did I find Paul and his job fascinating, but I discovered that there was an opening on the economics team.
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