www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/the-best-and-worst-cities-to-look-for-a-job -> www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/the-best-and-worst-cities-to-look-for-a-job/
The index ranks cities based on how many unemployed people there are compared to job listings. For every one unemployed person in Washington, DC, for example, there are six job postings. Whereas in Detroit, there is only one job posting for every 18 unemployed people. The higher the ratio of job postings to unemployed, the more chances there are of landing a job. The top ten cities in the index for finding jobs (and their corresponding ratios of job postings to unemployed) are: 1 Washington, DC (6:1) 2 Jacksonville, FL (3:1) 3 Baltimore, MD (1:1) 4 Salt Lake City, UT (1:2) 5 New York, NY (1:2) 6 San Jose, CA (1:2) 7 Hartford, CT (1:2) 8 Oklahoma City, OK (1:3) 9 Austin, TX (1:3) 10. Boston, MA (1:3) The worst ten cities for job searches are: 41.
August 18th, 2009 at 5:03 am PDT Umm, where did you pull that from? Easy to find a job in Washington + Obamas Government = Socialism? G0d I wish everyone that used word "socialism" actually had a clue of what it's meaning really is instead of reciting the same 3 talking points that they heard on Fox News.
August 18th, 2009 at 5:40 am PDT As a resident of the DC area, I'll give you a little bit of information. The huge expansion in government jobs in DC happened in the 90's, into the early 2000's. About half of these jobs are in the Military/Defense sector, which was vastly expanded under Obama's predecessor. If you want to find bloated, overpaid, know nothing government employees, check out the job postings/pay rates for Top Secret and Secret clearance holding database admins. These are all in the military sector, something that "big government hating" conservatives like yourself have expanded by voting in knee jerk reactionary morons like Bush. Only a gigantic doucebag would take a jobs report and turn it into fears of "Socialism", like its some giant Scandianavian boogeyman that's going to come out of the ocean and smother me with Ikea furniture, hot blonde women, and high quality of life. When I get sent down to Alabama on business, I see a state full of ugly fat asses, with the occasional normal person.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:32 pm PDT It should I just got my job through Twitter; I wonder who runs those twitter accounts no doubt bringing traffic to it's affiliates!
August 17th, 2009 at 9:51 pm PDT God help you if you're not a veteran. Veterans get substantial preference in federal jobs to the degree that your resume won't even be looked at for many GS 5-7 positions.
My wife's friend joined the Air Force, got knocked up 3 months out of boot camp, left the AF with an honorable discharge, and is now classified a veteran, with full benefits. Free medical care, preferential hiring(she has zero skills/education, yet has been hired for an IT job), and gov't loans for veterans. I think these benefits are too much, and should be reserved for combat veterans and people in the service for several years or more. Not idiots that join because they were in the bottom 10% of their high school class and didn't know what else to do.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:58 pm PDT I have an unemployeed republican friend in DC that would beg to differ. Also as someone who just hired a couple full timers I would say 4 in 10 that apply for jobs are idiots with little skill...
Anecdotally, the results of the study seem pretty accurate for this area. I know Northern Virginia's unemployment rate is one of the lowest in the country (many people who work in DC live on NoVA).
Very little news outside of anything to do with Social Networking, Apple and the iPhone, or Google and its imminent world dominance. Even still, I only come here when I want to see Siegler act like a child in the comment sections of his posts.
August 18th, 2009 at 5:38 am PDT Good thing your opinion doesn't matter and they are in charge of the most popular Technology blog on the web and not you. Try reading one of the 30 other posts they do a day and I think you will see they cover quite a bit. Get off your high horse and think about adding some value before opening your mouth.
August 18th, 2009 at 12:25 am PDT what this article doesn't tell you about washington, dc is that all jobs there are government, and most techcrunch readers would go crazy trying to put up with those jobs.
August 18th, 2009 at 12:47 am PDT I really have to wonder if this takes into account that most people with DC jobs don't live in DC, but commute in from Maryland and Virginia.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:12 am PDT Speaking as someone who lives in the DC area, I think two things probably make the number a little out of whack. First, the population of DC is pretty low compared to the number of people that work there. Many employees in DC are Maryland and Virginia residents. Second, many of the jobs in DC and the surrounding areas require a security clearance. So, the average unemployed person cannot get one of those jobs; they need to go through the clearance process which if you're lucky takes about 18 months.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:26 am PDT What would be more useful would be to know how much of a mismatch there is between the jobs being advertised and the skillsets being offered. That'll tell a body a lot about where to direct their retraining efforts.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:28 am PDT This stats are useless without distinguish between job categories. The fact that there is an high % of un-employment doesn't mean you won't find a job easily.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:04 am PDT Excellent point Davide. In cities like Detroit, I'd guess that many those 18 unemployed workers come from the auto industry, whereas the 1 opening could be for a health care worker. The high-level numbers tell a story but not the whole story.
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