U.S. jobs market perks up, but it’s still not a great time to get hired

U.S. jobs market perks up, but it’s still not a great time to get hired U.S. jobs market perks up, but it’s still not a great time to get hired A job seeker attends an employment fair in Florida in September. Job openings in the U.S. rose in September to a four-month high and hiring also increased, signaling mild but perhaps not sustainable improvement in a sluggish U.S. labor market. The number of job openings climbed to 7.52 million in September from 7.19 million in the prior month, the government said Tuesday.

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