The Great Resignation continues unabated and shows little sign of stopping.  A recent report from GoodTime surveying 560 HR, talent and recruiting professionals across the country lays out the current stark landscape: 50% of hiring goals were not met in 2021, while 60% surveyed said the time-to-hire increased in the past 12 months. HR management resource company Zenefits quotes an alarming statistic from Federal Reserve Economic Data, which reveals there are upwards of 11.54 million unfilled job vacancies in the U.S., the highest point since 2018. Zenefits zooms in on the problem by taking a look at the states and industries hardest hit by staffing shortages. Their current report used publicly available data from Indeed, the job listings web site. After tracking the total number of job openings in each state, they compared those numbers to each state's population to create their ranking. The report reveals a tie between New Hampshire and Massachusetts for the state with the highest number of open roles per 100,000 residents, with 3,310 vacancies each. Vermont, North Dakota, and Delaware round out the top five. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that technical occupations and healthcare practitioners will add the most jobs in 2022, with a projected number of close to 1.7 million. On the flip side, the BLS predicts farming, fishing, and forestry positions will shrink in 2022 by 3.4%, amounting to 32,200 job openings. This group of occupations is the only one projected to decline by the Bureau. See our slideshow above for the industries with the most open positions, and click here for the full report.