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The unemployment rate here in metro Atlanta is 8.9% (that's for June). Here it's still hard to find something unless you are young and willing to work cheap.
In one of those bizarro complications, the lack of local government jobs is still hurting mid-range job seekers. Local government was hit extremely hard by the recession, since basically all of their funding comes from property tax then sales tax. What got hit extremely hard? Real estate values and retail sales.
Local government used to take a small, but significant, chunk of the the mid-range work force. The top workers never take jobs in local government due to the comparatively low pay and lack of raises. Meanwhile, the low end of the mid-range work force could find very relatively good pay and valuable job experience in local government; and land those jobs without much competition due to the poor long term prospects. Even now, we rarely get more than a half-dozen qualified applicants for our local government positions (hundreds of applications, but a half-dozen qualified applicants) while the private sector is getting dozens to hundreds of qualified applicants per position. This is still much better than it used to be, when you would get zero to two qualified applicants for a local government position and just have to figure out your best option out of a limited set of candidates. The best option was normally a recent grad too, hence why local government was such a good source of entry level experience. Right now though, the best choice is normally an applicant from another local government in worse financial straits.
Once local government recovers and lifts existing hiring freezes, you will see a lot less competition in the private sector. And then you will see local government positions going back to having zero to two qualified applicants as well.
Haven't seen many local government jobs postings in philly for a while which has been the norm for 2013.
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Amazon has announced 7,000 new jobs, 5,000 in fulfillment, 2,000 in customer service.
The fulfillment center jobs are located in Breinigsville, Pa., Middletown, Del., Chattanooga and Murfreesboro, Tenn., Charleston and Spartanburg, S.C., Patterson, San Bernadino and Tracy, Calif., Chester, Va., Coppell, Haslet and San Antonio, Texas, Hebron, Ky., Indianapolis and Jeffersonville, Ind. and Phoenix. The customer service jobs are in Grand Forks, N.D., Kennewick, Wash., Huntington, W.V., and Winchester, Ky. Amazon hiring 7,000 workers | Q13 FOX News
Amazon has announced 7,000 new jobs, 5,000 in fulfillment, 2,000 in customer service.
The fulfillment center jobs are located in Breinigsville, Pa., Middletown, Del., Chattanooga and Murfreesboro, Tenn., Charleston and Spartanburg, S.C., Patterson, San Bernadino and Tracy, Calif., Chester, Va., Coppell, Haslet and San Antonio, Texas, Hebron, Ky., Indianapolis and Jeffersonville, Ind. and Phoenix. The customer service jobs are in Grand Forks, N.D., Kennewick, Wash., Huntington, W.V., and Winchester, Ky. Amazon hiring 7,000 workers | Q13 FOX News
The list of openings in local government is longer than in a long time: AWC JobNet - Search Jobs
Job market still sucks here in Brevard county FL. A lot of layoffs around here. Pretty bad if you ate in the manufacturing. Sector. No jobs. Companies going to temp. Services. That's what I'm doing for now. Working for a temp service after I was laid off this past April.(:
Well here in Texas when you're competing with illegals who are willing to accept a pay cut to work versus those of us citizens who will not. You can bet your ass jobs are hard to come by.
Says you! I haven't had to compete with any "illegals" so that must be just you.
The unemployment rate here in metro Atlanta is 8.9% (that's for June). Here it's still hard to find something unless you are young and willing to work cheap.
Is that for college grads or all because yes, that's high.
Unemployment has dropped since those who can't find work and thus "give up" aren't counted, nor are those who are forced to retire early, only work part time, etc.
As for the stock market, it is being pumped up by the Fed and the big banks and has no relationship with the actual economy.
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