Job Openings in U.S. Surge to Record While Hiring Cools
- Monthly increase in openings was the biggest since April 2010
- Record vacancies in retail, health care, professional services
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Job openings in the U.S. surged to a record in July as hiring cooled, a sign employers are having a hard time finding qualified workers.
The number of positions waiting to be filled jumped by 430,000, the biggest gain since April 2010, to 5.75 million, a Labor Department report showed Wednesday in Washington. That’s the most in data going back to 2000.