"While the job market remains highly competitive, opportunities are opening up across all industries and job levels," said Brent Rasmussen, president of CareerBuilder North America. 

"Over the last few years, we've seen workers, out of necessity, cast a wider net and discover new career paths they may never have considered pre-recession. New talent is flowing in and out of industries as workers apply their skills sets to new occupations."

Thirty-one percent of the 900 laid off workers who responded said they were hired back by their previous employer, a sign of a better financial position for employers.

Laid off workers also reported fewer pay cuts with their new positions, decreasing from 54 to 43 percent of workers who said they took a job with less pay. Twenty-three percent found a job with more pay than their previous position, up from 18 percent last year. 

More men than women are finding new positions, according to the survey. Sixty-three percent of men who were laid off from full-time jobs in the last year found new positions, compared to 50 percent of women. 

In addition to women, older workers are also seeing challenges in finding employment after a layoff than other age groups. Those 55 or older had lowest numbers, with only 36 percent saying they had found new work. Seventy-eight percent of workers age 25 to 34 said they landed new jobs.  

Of those workers who were laid off in the last year and found new jobs, 33 percent relocated to a new city or state. Of those who haven't found new jobs yet, 34 percent reported they would consider relocating for a position.