In our global economy, thanks to such legislation as NAFTA and GATT, with more US companies being allowed to use third-world labor overseas, such as China and India, domestic job competition has become far more competitive than when the US was an isolationist nation with a flourishing labor movement. Add a financial market crash due to greedy banks financing sub-prime mortgages, along with a historic national debt thanks largely to military spending overseas and job-hunting becomes even tougher in the worst recession since the Great Depression of the twentieth century. Well, do not jump off that bridge just yet…
Moreover, the Bureau of Labor (BLS) Statistics Career Guide to Industries, www.bls.gov/oco/cg/indchar.htm, may shed some light on where to look for work. Wage and salary employment has the highest projected increase from 2006 to 2016 for the following three industries: Health, education and food services, including drinking places. The industry with the worst projected job growth is manufacturing. Worthy of mention again, see the previous Internet in Bloom, is the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, where one can search for virtually any job title to find an empirical job outlook: www.bls.gov/oco courtesy of extensive research by our US Department of Labor. Following are some recommended websites for general job postings and career networking:
www.craigslist.com. This eclectic website has a wide variety of niche market openings in an easy-to-read and navigate layout. (It may also come in handy if you have no social-life and need a date. Hint: Demand honesty online.)
www.nytimes.com. The trick here is to select the advanced search option and target the Tristate area because this automatically includes three states, NY, NJ and CT, within a reasonable commute for most, thus increasing the average search results.
www.careerbuilder.com. This site allows multiple state searches simultaneously for up to any three states. It often gives the option to apply for the opening online directly from the site if one registers and uploads generic networking documents. Next time we will examine the value of email listservs for finding employment.
In closing, as a full-time NYC Librarian I am busy but would love to hear from you. Please send your questions to: NYLibrarian@yahoo.com or visit http://computersinbloom.8k.com.
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