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I have a friend who just got laid off from doing mortgages...he was a top salesman and was making well over $75k a year.
Anyways, he has a house, wife who doesn't work and newborn. If he can't find a job, he may have to move back to Oklahoma and foreclose on their house since there is no way they can sell it for what they owe.
Anyone got a sales job or something open or know of any?
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Just read in the Arizona Business Journal that the Valley was the hottest Job Growth Market in the entire Country over the last 5 years (2003 - 2007), creating roughly 70,000 new job a year during that time! I gotta believe if your buddy is half as good as he appears, he should have no troubles finding a job here in Phoenix...
Just read in the Arizona Business Journal that the Valley was the hottest Job Growth Market in the entire Country over the last 5 years (2003 - 2007), creating roughly 70,000 new job a year during that time! I gotta believe if your buddy is half as good as he appears, he should have no troubles finding a job here in Phoenix...
I think that REALLY depends on your field.
That said, sales jobs are usually pretty plentiful.
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That said, sales jobs are usually pretty plentiful.
Field? Not so much... The article specifically pointed out how broad the job growth has been, spanning a wide variety of industries...
I think there are plenty of other factors that can cause someone to not find and/or accept a job, such as commute, salary requirements, job role, and of course - access to the internet so you can come play in the ASFN sandbox!
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I have a friend who just got laid off from doing mortgages...he was a top salesman and was making well over $75k a year.
Anyways, he has a house, wife who doesn't work and newborn. If he can't find a job, he may have to move back to Oklahoma and foreclose on their house since there is no way they can sell it for what they owe.
Anyone got a sales job or something open or know of any?
Oh yeah, There is a Job Fair at the Fairgrounds this Sat for jobs thru the State of Arizona. My friend went last year and got a great job working for the City of Tempe
Field? Not so much... The article specifically pointed out how broad the job growth has been, spanning a wide variety of industries...
I think there are plenty of other factors that can cause someone to not find and/or accept a job, such as commute, salary requirements, job role, and of course - access to the internet so you can come play in the ASFN sandbox!
I disagree. The PR jobs here are few and far between.
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Private-sector jobs increase 6.4% from 2002 trough
bizjournals - September 10, 2007 by G. Scott Thomas
It's easy to forget that America was still reeling from an economic double whammy -- the dot-com bust and the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- just a half-decade ago.
The country lost 2.2 million private-sector jobs between June 2001 and the same month a year later. Even the most prosperous markets paid the price: Dallas-Fort Worth watched 94,400 jobs slip away during that 12-month period, while Houston lost 20,700 jobs, Phoenix 13,400 and Las Vegas 4,500.
A weary nation hoped for a swift recovery, but economists warned that it might be slow and difficult.
They were in for a pleasant surprise. More than 6 million jobs have been created since June 2004, pushing the number of private-sector positions to 116.9 million by the midpoint of 2007. That's 6.4 percent above the trough of 109.9 million in June 2002.
Nowhere has the recovery been stronger than Phoenix, which is currently the nation's hottest employment market, according to a new Bizjournals study.
"Phoenix has seen a real boom, and it has been broad-based," says Austin Litvak, an associate economist with Moody's Economy.com, an international research firm. "The economy there really took off in 2004 and ‘05, largely due to the housing market and the large number of people moving into the area."
Phoenix has expanded its employment base by 23.4 percent since 2002, almost quadrupling the national rate. Its five-year influx of 325,100 private-sector jobs topped the nation, with Washington's gain of 245,400 a distant second.
That torrid pace has slowed a bit lately. Phoenix added an average of 68,000 private-sector jobs annually between 2002 and 2006, but dropped to 52,900 in 2006-07. The latter figure was fourth-best in the country, trailing Dallas, Houston and New York City.
"That being said, the growth is still above the national average, still impressive," says Litvak. "The housing market is going through a correction now, but when it stabilizes, we believe Phoenix will begin accelerating again."
Bizjournals used a nine-part formula to analyze employment trends in the nation's 100 largest labor markets. The formula was fueled by midyear data complied since 2002 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The 100 markets, taken collectively, contained roughly two-thirds of the nation's 116.9 million private-sector jobs as of June 2007. (Click here for the study's methodology, and click here for the top-to-bottom standings of all 100 markets.)
There's a strong Western flavor to the resulting list of America's hottest employment markets:
-- Right behind Phoenix is No. 2 Salt Lake City, where the number of private-sector jobs has soared 11.3 percent since 2005, the nation's fastest growth rate during the past two years.
-- Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., is fourth. The area commonly known as the Inland Empire has added 233,200 jobs since 2002, outperforming all markets but Phoenix and Washington in that category.
Rounding out the top 10 are Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Austin, Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., and Tucson. (Click here for profiles of the 10 hottest labor markets.)
Texas, with three metros in the top 10, boasts more hot markets than any other state. Different sectors are given credit for the employment upswings in each area -- energy in Houston, finance in Dallas-Fort Worth and technology in Austin.
"All three are benefiting from the overall growth in Texas, to be sure. But they all have their own unique aspects that help them to define their own paths," says M. Ray Perryman, president of the Perryman Group, an economic-analysis firm in Waco, Texas.
Las Vegas was prominent in Bizjournals' previous rankings of hot labor markets -- No. 1 in 2005 and No. 2 in 2006. But a recent slowdown has pushed it to seventh place this time.
Vegas has added an impressive total of 191,000 private-sector jobs since 2002, but only 13,100 arrived during the 2006-07 span. The latter count was 39,800 below Phoenix's one-year increase.
"The difference is that Las Vegas is a one-trick pony," says Elliott Pollack, president of Elliott D. Pollack & Co., an economic-consulting firm in Scottsdale, Ariz. "Las Vegas is driven by the gaming industry. If gaming cools off, the whole area cools off. Phoenix has a much more diversified economy."
At the bottom of Bizjournals' rankings is Detroit, the coldest job market in America.
Domestic automakers have struggled under the weight of inventory backlogs, high gas prices and foreign competition. Detroit, which remains heavily dependent on the auto industry, has lost 104,000 private-sector jobs since 2002.
The runners-up on the list of coldest markets are New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, and Youngstown, Ohio, which is saddled with an aging manufacturing sector.
The remaining places in the bottom 10 are Dayton; Cleveland; Lansing, Mich.; Toledo, Ohio; Springfield, Mass.; New Haven, Conn.; and Grand Rapids. (Click here for profiles of the 10 coldest labor markets.)
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The mortgage industry is in a downturn and I believe is headed full speed into a wall. To many people walking away from loans and now there are going to be, imo, a bunch of illegals doing the same and going back to or elsewhere.
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Private-sector jobs increase 6.4% from 2002 trough
bizjournals - September 10, 2007 by G. Scott Thomas
It's easy to forget that America was still reeling from an economic double whammy -- the dot-com bust and the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- just a half-decade ago.
The country lost 2.2 million private-sector jobs between June 2001 and the same month a year later. Even the most prosperous markets paid the price: Dallas-Fort Worth watched 94,400 jobs slip away during that 12-month period, while Houston lost 20,700 jobs, Phoenix 13,400 and Las Vegas 4,500.
A weary nation hoped for a swift recovery, but economists warned that it might be slow and difficult.
They were in for a pleasant surprise. More than 6 million jobs have been created since June 2004, pushing the number of private-sector positions to 116.9 million by the midpoint of 2007. That's 6.4 percent above the trough of 109.9 million in June 2002.
Nowhere has the recovery been stronger than Phoenix, which is currently the nation's hottest employment market, according to a new Bizjournals study.
"Phoenix has seen a real boom, and it has been broad-based," says Austin Litvak, an associate economist with Moody's Economy.com, an international research firm. "The economy there really took off in 2004 and ‘05, largely due to the housing market and the large number of people moving into the area."
Phoenix has expanded its employment base by 23.4 percent since 2002, almost quadrupling the national rate. Its five-year influx of 325,100 private-sector jobs topped the nation, with Washington's gain of 245,400 a distant second.
That torrid pace has slowed a bit lately. Phoenix added an average of 68,000 private-sector jobs annually between 2002 and 2006, but dropped to 52,900 in 2006-07. The latter figure was fourth-best in the country, trailing Dallas, Houston and New York City.
"That being said, the growth is still above the national average, still impressive," says Litvak. "The housing market is going through a correction now, but when it stabilizes, we believe Phoenix will begin accelerating again."
Bizjournals used a nine-part formula to analyze employment trends in the nation's 100 largest labor markets. The formula was fueled by midyear data complied since 2002 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The 100 markets, taken collectively, contained roughly two-thirds of the nation's 116.9 million private-sector jobs as of June 2007. (Click here for the study's methodology, and click here for the top-to-bottom standings of all 100 markets.)
There's a strong Western flavor to the resulting list of America's hottest employment markets:
-- Right behind Phoenix is No. 2 Salt Lake City, where the number of private-sector jobs has soared 11.3 percent since 2005, the nation's fastest growth rate during the past two years.
-- Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., is fourth. The area commonly known as the Inland Empire has added 233,200 jobs since 2002, outperforming all markets but Phoenix and Washington in that category.
Rounding out the top 10 are Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Austin, Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., and Tucson. (Click here for profiles of the 10 hottest labor markets.)
Texas, with three metros in the top 10, boasts more hot markets than any other state. Different sectors are given credit for the employment upswings in each area -- energy in Houston, finance in Dallas-Fort Worth and technology in Austin.
"All three are benefiting from the overall growth in Texas, to be sure. But they all have their own unique aspects that help them to define their own paths," says M. Ray Perryman, president of the Perryman Group, an economic-analysis firm in Waco, Texas.
Las Vegas was prominent in Bizjournals' previous rankings of hot labor markets -- No. 1 in 2005 and No. 2 in 2006. But a recent slowdown has pushed it to seventh place this time.
Vegas has added an impressive total of 191,000 private-sector jobs since 2002, but only 13,100 arrived during the 2006-07 span. The latter count was 39,800 below Phoenix's one-year increase.
"The difference is that Las Vegas is a one-trick pony," says Elliott Pollack, president of Elliott D. Pollack & Co., an economic-consulting firm in Scottsdale, Ariz. "Las Vegas is driven by the gaming industry. If gaming cools off, the whole area cools off. Phoenix has a much more diversified economy."
At the bottom of Bizjournals' rankings is Detroit, the coldest job market in America.
Domestic automakers have struggled under the weight of inventory backlogs, high gas prices and foreign competition. Detroit, which remains heavily dependent on the auto industry, has lost 104,000 private-sector jobs since 2002.
The runners-up on the list of coldest markets are New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, and Youngstown, Ohio, which is saddled with an aging manufacturing sector.
The remaining places in the bottom 10 are Dayton; Cleveland; Lansing, Mich.; Toledo, Ohio; Springfield, Mass.; New Haven, Conn.; and Grand Rapids. (Click here for profiles of the 10 coldest labor markets.)
Their methodology is flawed IMO. Though the end results may be true (I don't know either way, but..), 2 areas of importance were ignored according to their measurements:
1) They only looked at job growth over the past 5 years, so they began the study in 2002 when private sector jobs were at their lowest. They don't even look at how many jobs were lost overall compared to how many have been gained back, nor a comparison of what fields have regained vs. those who haven't.
2) They completely ignore the areas growth rate. Phoenix has also seen on of the biggest population growths in that time. Is the job growth in balance to the number of workers coming in?
These are important details left out of this study. Seems either like a shaping of some stats to imply a trend and leaving out those that contradict it or really sloppy research.
Oh yeah, There is a Job Fair at the Fairgrounds this Sat for jobs thru the State of Arizona. My friend went last year and got a great job working for the City of Tempe
This is what I would suggest as well. They often hire on the spot.
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