Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
There were 4.6 million job openings on the last business day of May, little changed from 4.5 million in
April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.4 percent) and separations
rate (3.2 percent) were essentially unchanged in May. Within separations, the quits rate (1.8 percent)
was unchanged and the layoffs and discharges rate (1.1 percent) was little changed. This release includes
estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the nonfarm sector by
industry and by four geographic regions.
Job Openings
There were 4.6 million job openings in May, little changed from 4.5 million in April. The number of job
openings was also little changed for total private and government. The job openings level increased for
nondurable manufacturing and for health care and social assistance in May, while it decreased for retail
trade and for arts, entertainment, and recreation. The number of job openings was little changed in all
four regions in May. (See table 1.)
Over the 12 months ending in May, the number of job openings (not seasonally adjusted) rose for total
nonfarm, total private, and government. Over the year, the job openings level increased in nearly half of
the industries and in all four regions. (See table 7.)
Hires
There were 4.7 million hires in May, little changed from April. The number of hires was little changed
for total private and government, and in all industries and regions. (See table 2.)
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4.6 million in May!!!
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There are also the requires 10 years experience in some technology that came out 5 years ago.
My current company's recruiters have postings up that they admit there's probably nobody anywhere who qualifies for, but they'll interview candidates who have most of it. 
I've personally interviewed candidates for a position, and recommended we hire them, then be told its being eliminated because of funding issues so we'll shuffle existing employees internally.
It seems like you have to know someone to even get an interview in many places. I am really hoping things are getting better for real. I try to be optimistic.
I'm grateful to have a job and income while looking for a new job, even though its commuting 4 hours a day in the wrong specialty.
to their home country on a whim, and pay them half the wages they have to pay an American - whose family may have fought with their lives defending it. 
