This graph represents the annual CHANGE in job openings, so anythin in the green represents an improvement year-on-year:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/07/09/fed-looks-at-more-than-jobs-report-for-labor-market-clues/
And remember, these are the sorts of data that House Republicans have suggested that the Federal government should no longer be reporting on, or for that matter, even collecting, since from their point of view, it adds no value. Well I can see their point... After all, if all the trends only started moving UP after about mid-2009, you can understand their contention that this does NOT add any value to their attempt to destroy the Obama presidency, either while he's still in office or at least destroy the historical preception of it afterwards. Of course, if Hillary runs in 2016 and wins, it's concievable that they then have to work extra hard to make it 16 years of history disappear.

OCU