job market

noun

1. the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
2. the aggregate of those persons seeking employment:

   Thousands of June graduates entered the job market.

Example Sentences

Returning to work part-time is often a consideration for women returning from maternity leave, but statistics show the pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works of what was an otherwise upwards trend in the job market.

From Digiday

Kalita explores why career transitioners have an edge in the current job market.

From Fortune

What to expect from Warnock in the SenateWarnock ran on a liberal platform, especially supporting criminal justice reform, expanding health-care access and improving the economy and job market for groups that are often left out of economic booms.

From Washington Post

As our economy and education institutions recover from the pandemic, confusion over what the job market wants will only increase.

From Washington Post

A new job market paper by Anne Burton, an economics PhD candidate at Cornell University, looked into how smoking bans at bars and restaurants affected alcohol consumption, violent crime, and fatal drunk-driving crashes.

From Vox

The job market in philosophy went from awful to dreadful starting in 2008 and has never really recovered.

From The Daily Beast

Does the mediocrity of the job market mean that America no longer needs people who deal with abstractions?

From The Daily Beast

Boosting spending and undoing a chunk of the sequester is likely to have a bigger impact on the still-ailing job market.

From The Daily Beast

But they means that one of the big forces that has weighed on the overall job market is lifting.

From The Daily Beast

But because they were more likely to already have secured some foothold in the job market, they were more cushioned from the blow.

From The Daily Beast

Finally, our proposal will include new incentives for summer youth employment to help young people get a start in the job market.

From Project Gutenberg