The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, from the Labor Department on Wednesday also showed layoffs declining significantly last month.
There were 1.8 job openings for every unemployed person in April, up from 1.7 in March.
Data for March was revised higher to show 9.75 million job openings instead of the previously reported 9.59 million.
There were 185,000 more job openings in healthcare and social assistance, while vacancies jumped by 154,000 in the transportation, warehousing, and utilities.
But Walker also acknowledged that some of the alternative measures of job openings could be downwardly biased, as their sample could be skewed toward companies which are more likely to have an online presence and have cut job openings sharply.
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