gautam godhwani is c.e.o. at simplyhired.com, an employment online search engine. both of them join us tonight, welcome to nightly business report. >> thank you, tom, it's good to be here. >> tom: we want to start with you, scot, how would you describe the hire environment right now? >> well, it's interesting. overall it's still a struggling environment, if you compare it to historical labor markets. but the good news is that it's improving. we've had private sector job growth for the last 13 out of the last 14 months. and especially if you are in the professional segments of the labor market, you tend to be doing a little bit better. >> tom: gautam would you agree with that assessment. >> i would. i think we are dro going through a lot of struggles but from simplyhire.com perspective there are reasons to be optimistic. we have a snapshot of job advertisements across the web and have seen them right from 2.1 million job openings to now 4.8 million openings which is prerecession levels. >> tom: i want to look at a bar chart from that data shared. the job data finds