Job openings rise to 13-year high

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of job openings in the United States rose to a near 13-year high in October, a hopeful sign for the U.S. economy and labor market.

Employers outside of the farming sector had 4.83 million jobs waiting to be filled during the month, up from 4.69 million in September, the Labor Department said on Tuesday.

Job openings across the U.S. economy have increased sharply since April, and the number of open slots in October was just shy of the 4.85 million jobs available in August, which was the highest reading since 2001.

While employers haven't been as quick to actually fill those openings, the increase in postings in recent months has coincided with other positive economic news that has made analysts more confident the economy is accelerating.

The number of available jobs could be making workers more confident to leave their current workplaces. The share of total employees opting to quit their jobs was 1.9 percent in October. That's a tenth of a point lower than in September, but this rate has also increased in recent months and now is at roughly the same level it was just before the 2007-09 recession.

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Nope, just the opposite and more damning. It represent a growing structural gap in the level of training from our educational system to meet the highly skilled requirements of the modern diverse American economy. I could say your schools failings in curriculum are largely responsible for this growing gap, and sadly President Obama must share some responsibility. His Ivory tower one shoe fits all pandering to economic servitude of a generation of students who are getting hustled by for profit higher education schools gives them a diploma which means nothing because they lack the skills necessary to fill this growing gap. The Chamber of Commerce is begging for immigration reform which will allow expanded work permits to fill this gap. Instead our leaders bicker and impede, when we should be very specific on the loans we subsidize and the skills we as a nation must fill. No, here I disagree with Boards.....this stat does not bode well for the President. His one shoe fits all Oprah Winfrey look under your seat for the key to a new car, does not measure the damage this nation is suffering by continuing failure to fill this structural gap.