What is the job market like where you live?

Accounting,Management,and IT are field with the most wanted job in my country. And they’re also faculties with the most students in most university.

Yes.
Not really,I have my part time job and as a vice manager in my family-based shop.
No.
Yes.
It won’t affect me since I am in different world where such popular field will have nothing to do with my personal life.

It really and truly is horrible. All of us are sorry we moved here in the first place. No one can seem to find a job in my household. Even though my dad has so many skills in various areas, no will hire him, because there are simply too many people applying for jobs, and the state that I live in would rather hire someone less qualified for the job, but was from here, than hire a person from out-of-state that is qualified to do what they require. It’s ridiculous.

Nonexistent, unless you’re a topless dancer. We’ve got all kinds of nude bars that are always hiring.

We moved to the Washington D.C. area because jobs were plentiful.

Austin is in pretty good shape relative to the national rate of uneployment, thank goodness. It’s currently around 7.5. Nothing to sing and dance in the streets about, but far lower than in many cities.

I live in New York. [/said like Charlie Brown on the Halloween Special (“I got a rock.”)

It is as tight as a frogs ass. People here are way underemployed if they are lucky and I know of a few who are going on 2 years without a real job. Never seen anything quite like this.

Truly awful. They were before the recession, and of course they have only gotten worse. Those who can afford it (even many that can’t) are leaving. In fact, there have been multiple campaigns launched recently in an attempt to get people to stay.

@Your_Majesty I think you must be very fortunate, thanks
@Aesthetic_Mess That is so very sad. I hope he finds work soon. Hope things get better for you also :-)
@Seek_Kolinahr That sounds pretty awful. topless dancers Male and female? LOLL
@marinelife Was the move during this recession? Glad it worked out for you.
@Austinlad So you haven’t been in a position where you have had to move away for work?
@aprilsimnel So plenty of work for you?
@Cruiser Yes it is so very sad don’t you think? It seems like such a waste of valuable people with so many skills :))
@TheOnlyNeffie The recession seems to be global, so very sad for the willing workers, thanks

NY State’s unemployment rate is over 9%. New York City has been hit pretty badly. I’ve been looking for a job for about 2 years (not counting the few short-term gigs I’ve had).

Its bad. I’ve been looking for almost two years. But unfortunately the job market out here is looking for experience, and fluent in Spanish.
I can’t wait for somebody to say your hired.

@aprilsimnel What’s your line of work?

@Aesthetic_Mess – I was an Administrative Assistant/Document Specialist but I’m looking to get back into film and TV production. Hell, at this point, I’ll do AA/EA work right now, though.

Corporations are hoarding 2 tirllion in cash though. Major banks made 39 billion in profits last year. Lets hear it for free trade HIP HIP!

Job market bad? companies have conspired to freeze hiring in hopes the electorate will vote with them and screw us people farther down the line…. Cake anyone?

I’m so moving to Norway.

Seattle is competitive across the board.

Trying to get a minimum wage job will result in being turned away if you apply more than an hour after the job is posted; they already have at least 300 applicants. As for my field (machinist), I happened to move here around the same time Boeing had massive layoffs, so I was competing against guys who had 10–25 years experience compared to my 5.

It’s a little better now, but unemployment here is still a bit above the national average. I got lucky enough to get a low-paying job after over a year of looking and even luckier when the machine shop got slammed hard enough to need another person (they decided to yank me in and grab some shlub off the street for my old position rather than shell out for a new machinist).

A lot depends on luck these days, though if you have the right skills, you can somewhat make your own luck.

@aprilsimnel But are you able to find work in admin. while searching for a job in TV?
@shego fluent in Spanish What is your normal line of work to need Spanish?
@thekoukoureport Yes we seem to have become a ‘have’ and ‘have not’ society these days, with the large corporations dictating everything. So very sad don’t you think?
@Seek_Kolinahr Is it easy to find a job in Norway? Do you have to be specialised?
@jerv Yes there seems to be too many chasing too many jobs… even at the minimum wage. I think that is sad, don’t you?

I don’t know about the job market… But @cazzie loves it there. ^_^
I need to live somewhere less “fuck the poor” and more “yay, socialism!”

@partyparty – No. That’s the problem.