There are currently a record 9.3 million US job openings available to workers, according to the US Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report released in early June 2021. This breaks the previous record of 8.3 million US job vacancies reported by the Department of Labor last month. Days earlier, the Labor Department announced that 559,000 US jobs were created in May and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 percent, yet, millions of workers are still needed in America’s booming labor market. The JOLTS report also revealed that 3.95 million people who were working in the USA quit their jobs, which is considered an indicator of confidence Americans have that they can find another job in the US. To read more, click here!