job market
Americannoun
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the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
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the aggregate of those persons seeking employment.
Thousands of June graduates entered the job market.
Example Sentences
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Going back to grad school has long been the Plan B of young professionals who aspire to climb higher in their careers or struggle to get promoted in a tough job market.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
“I feel like it’s still worth it, but with this job market, it hasn’t yielded as high of a return as I expected, so far.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Here are some more guides to navigating this job market:
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
And there’s even more massive student-loan debt to manage, plus today’s rocky job market.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
This person will have been born in a demographic trough, so as to have had the best of New York’s public schools and the easiest time in the job market.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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