Quick Pivot Table Help - Count and group Multiple Dates

Hi I have a question regarding pivot table and grouping. I have a table that displays every employee along with their hire date and termination date (if applicable). I want to know how I can count how many people were hired/fired and group them by month. I have attached a sample with the expected results highlighted. Problem I keep getting is I can't manipulate the rows in the pivot table to show just months and have the columns populate independently.

Count of Employee Dates.xlsx

Any help is greatly Appreciated

This does not work. This is only grouping the rows by the hire date. I have no termination dates in january but there is still showing "1" under count of termination dates.

I believe that it is counting IF there is a termination date for that hire date but not categorizing it by the date itself. Do I need to create a calculated field?

With that example would i need two rows for each employee if they have a termination date?
EG

Employee	Date	Action (Hire/Terminate)
A	7/10/14	Hire
A	9/21/14	Terminate

Is there anyway I could keep each employee to have just one row?

I have other information I want to put in the row. I want to calculate the tenure of the employee and if there are any notes attached aswell.

Count of Employee Dates.xlsx
here's what I have so far with doing formulas. I've gotten it so it sorts them by month. How can I get it to sort by year and then month?

Perfect! thank you very much