Job Openings Jump Higher, But Hiring May Not
In what could be a positive bit of jobs news, job openings rose to three million in July. Whether those jobs are filled quickly is another matter entirely. The job openings rate increased over the month to 2.3 percent. The…
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The job openings rate increased over the month to 2.3 percent. The hires rate (3.3 percent) and the separations rate (3.4 percent) were unchanged, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The BLS added, “Even with the gains since July 2009, the number of job openings remained below the 4.4 million open jobs when the recession began in December 2007.”
The glass may be half empty. The current level of job openings may be too low to have any significant effect in bringing down the unemployment rate of 9.6%. The three million openings are only valuable to the extent to which they get filled, and, despite what many economists say, there is no way to predict that future.
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McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.
His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
