Comments on: What Industries Are Hiring Now?

By: Who’s Hiring in Indiana? | Financial Reflections

Who’s Hiring in Indiana? | Financial Reflections — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:01:19 +0000

[...] for diabetes and Cialis for, um, you know. As you probably already know, health care related industries are hiring now and Eli Lilly is no exception with over 50 openings listed in Indiana at the time this was [...]

By: Who’s Hiring in Arkansas? | Financial Reflections

Who’s Hiring in Arkansas? | Financial Reflections — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:41:30 +0000

[...] to be on the list in just about every state. That’s good because it’s one of the industries that are hiring right now. Baptist Health is a big employer in the state. Check their site for [...]

By: Who’s Hiring in Alabama? | Financial Reflections

Who’s Hiring in Alabama? | Financial Reflections — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:57:56 +0000

[...] employs over 630, physicians and hundreds more nurses, techs and support staff. Health care is an industry that’s hiring now, so check out their employment page for more [...]

By: Layoffs 2009: Tracking the Damage | Financial Reflections

Layoffs 2009: Tracking the Damage | Financial Reflections — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:26:11 +0000

[...] IT Layoff Tracker: People questioned me when I picked software as one of the industries that’s hiring now, and maybe they were right. Computer World was inspired to chart the layouts in spreadsheet [...]

By: Bleak Monday: 42,000 Jobs Gone | Financial Reflections

Bleak Monday: 42,000 Jobs Gone | Financial Reflections — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:38:27 +0000

[...] is doing well, which is bad news for our waist measurement. Would you like fries with that? I previously tried to find the industries that were hiring. I’m not so sure there’s any safe ground anymore. In case you missed it 60 [...]

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The 10th EVER Carnival of Internships, Careers, & Employment! — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:21:42 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:45:04 +0000

You’re the second to note that. The run-of-the-mill jobs may indeed be taking a hit, but that’s also already been happening with outsourcing. I did notice that part of Google’s layoffs were targeted at HR folks. Good news is that the existing software jobs are in place (for now) but few HR folks are needed if there’s a hiring freeze.

By: Dividend Tree

Dividend Tree — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:56:06 +0000

FR: I am surprised at inclusion of computer softwares in this list. Perhaps, you want to say higher-end of softwares (architects, modeling, system analysts, etc) that is approx. 10% of total jobs. Rest run-of-the-mill 90% in programming, operations, QA, etc are going down n down. good summary though…

By: Financial Five, January 23, 2009 | Financial Reflections

Financial Five, January 23, 2009 | Financial Reflections — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:35:21 +0000

[...] mentioned that software might be one of the industries to work in now. Then a reader pointed out a CNBC article that Microsoft is laying off 5,000 people. On a [...]

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:59:58 +0000

Thanks for mentioning the MS layoffs. There is one ray of hope in Redmond — the article states “Microsoft will be adding ‘thousands of jobs’ in strategic areas like Internet search, where it has been lagging behind Google.” Likely most of those will be serious software talent. Too bad they have to shed jobs before adding some.