In this post, we use EMSI’s Analyst to discover Florida’s best-paying, fastest-growing, most concentrated jobs. What do we find? Physicians & surgeons, physical therapists, and air traffic controllers are among the top jobs in the Sunshine State.
Mar. 27, 2012 | Posted by Gwen M. BurrowArchive for the ‘Data & Analysis’ Category
What Apple’s Supply Chain Says About US Manufacturing, Middle-Skill Training
“Labor is almost insignificant. What is really important are supply chains and flexibility of factories.” — New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, on Apple’s overseas manufacturing
Mar. 22, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightINDUSTRY REPORT: The Cruise Industry
From 2007-2011, the industry grew by a surprising 115%, adding over 4,500 new jobs. Today there are just over 8,500 jobs in this industry at 140 establishments (i.e., places of work). Most of them are in either Florida, California, or Washington.
Mar. 21, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzINDUSTRY REPORT: HMO Medical Centers
There are currently more than 1,600 HMO medical centers across the US that employ 115,000 workers. Most of the folks who work in this industry are female (75%) and roughly half are between the ages of 25 and 44.
Mar. 21, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzINDUSTRY REPORT: Internet Publishing, Broadcasting, and Search Engines
From 2007-2011, internet publishers added 30,000 jobs, which is 40% growth. There are currently nearly 9,000 establishments, or places of work, in the U.S. About 70% of the industry is between the ages of 25 and 44.
Mar. 21, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzINDUSTRY REPORT: Translation and Interpretation Services
Since 2007, a time when most of the economy was taking a severe beating, translation and interpretation services have grown by about 50%.
Mar. 21, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzFive Industries with 40% Growth (or Greater) Since 2007
According to EMSI’s latest dataset (2011.4), there are five industry sectors that grew by 40% or more since the economic drop.
Mar. 21, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzINDUSTRY REPORT: Wet Corn Milling
In 2009, there was rapid growth in the wet corn milling industry. As a result, the sector has gained 46% employment growth over the last five years, which is nearly 4,000 new jobs since 2007. There are only 72 establishments engaged in this work and they tend to be concentrated in Iowa and Illinois.
Mar. 21, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzEMSI and the SOC 2010 Transition
The new SOC categories have been released. This post will help you understand what’s changed, and when those changes will show up in EMSI data.
Mar. 16, 2012 | Posted by Josh StevensonA Broader Look at America’s Fossil Fuels Jobs Boom
We identified nine key oil and gas, pipeline, and related construction industries, a sector that had 30% more jobs in 2011 than in 2005, according to EMSI’s 2011.4 Covered Employment dataset. Over the same time, national employment has shrunk 2%.
Mar. 16, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightOccupation Report: ‘Technical’ Sales
In this post, we will focus on two different occupations: sales engineers and sales representatives that sell wholesale and manufacturing products.
Mar. 1, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzData Spotlight: Ranking States by Their Dependence on Manufacturing
In this post, we provide an overview of the 10 states most dependent on manufacturing, with the top five subsectors for each based on their concentration compared to the nation. We also show data on all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Mar. 1, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightChart of the Day: The Rise in Long-Term Unemployment
Nearly 43% of all jobless Americans have been looking for work for at least 27 weeks. The dramatic spike started in the second half of ’08, and peaked in April 2010, when the BLS reported 6.73 million in the US fit in the long-term unemployed category.
Feb. 27, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightTop Jobs in Texas for 2012
We use data from EMSI’s Analyst to help discern the jobs that pay the best, have grown the most since 2007, and show the highest concentration in the state. The results? RNs and workers in the oil industry should be happy.
Feb. 14, 2012 | Posted by Gwen M. BurrowTop Jobs in Idaho for 2012
Which jobs pay the most? Show the best growth? Have the highest concentration? We explore the answers in this post.
Feb. 14, 2012 | Posted by Gwen M. BurrowProduct Update: UK Data Release
This release captures major changes in UK data, including the switch from SIC 2003 to SIC 2007, migration from Working Futures 2007 to 2010, and a shift from ABI to BRES.
Feb. 14, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzThe Good (and Bad) News With the Latest Job Openings Survey
New data from JOLTS, released this week from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offers some good (and not-so-good) news about the economy.
Feb. 8, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightMaking a Key Distinction: Real-Time LMI & Traditional Labor Market Data
Real-time data gives a glimpse into current trends based primarily on recent want ads and a database of résumés. Traditional data, on the other hand, includes past trends and projections on hundreds of standardized industries and occupations, all of which have been collected for decades.
Feb. 7, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightThe Growth In Science & Research Occupations
As we continue to filter through the data in our latest release (EMSI’s 2011.4 dataset), we notice that many occupations related to science and research are also doing quite well. The actual category of occupations (SOC 19) is referred to as “life, physical, and social science occupations.”
Feb. 3, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzData Spotlight: Engineers in Manufacturing
We’ve been asked several times about the demand for engineers in the manufacturing sector. In this post, we provide some answers by looking at 31 engineering occupations that staff manufacturing.
Feb. 3, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzA Look At Jobs In Ohio (2007-2011)
See our other posts on the top jobs in various states. In this post, we want to identify the best-performing jobs in Ohio based on labor market trends. To do this we use labor market data from Analyst (EMSI’s web-based labor market analysis tool), and filter for the highest-paying, fastest-growing, and most-concentrated jobs in the state. Let’s [...]
Jan. 31, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzLone Star College Introduces Career Coach
Here is an article from YourHoustonNews.com about how Lone Star College – Montgomery is using Career Coach, EMSI’s web-based labor market tool designed for students and jobseekers.
Jan. 24, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzOccupation Report: Computer Software Engineers
This post is meant to provide a more in-depth look at the labor market for software engineers, a steadily growing occupation that is broken into two categories.
Jan. 23, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzInteractive Graphic: Ranking States By Competitiveness
We teamed up with our friends at Tableau Software to produce an interactive graphic that details individual industries that are driving states to be more (or less) competitive.
Jan. 17, 2012 | Posted by Rob SentzHumanities or STEM? Looking at the Most Popular Majors for US Students
Virginia Postrel in Bloomberg notes a significant number of all degree recipients are leaning toward skill-based education. But more striking is the decline in STEM majors as a share of all graduates.
Jan. 11, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightUnemployment by College Major: The Dim Job Prospects for Architecture Grads, New and Old
The employment outlook for all architects — not just new grads — started to sour in 2007, in conjunction with the onset of the Great Recession. It has only started to recover in the past year or so — and perhaps most perplexing, the number of architecture graduates in the nation continues to rise.
Jan. 5, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightThe Hardest Job To Fill In 2012? A Look At The Supply of Web Developers
“The demand for top-tier [software] engineering talent sharply outweighs the supply in almost every market especially in San Francisco, New York, and Boston,” writes Inc.com’s Keith Cline. But is there really a shortage of web developers? We take a look.
Jan. 3, 2012 | Posted by Joshua WrightThe Shrinking Sector: Manufacturing as a Proportion of all Jobs Since 2001
Certain segments of manufacturing are indeed on the upswing, as noted by Joel Kotkin and others. But there’s no getting around this fact: As a proportion of all jobs, the manufacturing sector has dwindled in the last decade.
Dec. 31, 2011 | Posted by Joshua WrightThe Fastest-Growing Jobs During The Economic Downturn (2007-2011)
Here is a look at the fastest-growing jobs in the country from 2007-2011. These are all occupations that have grown despite our nation’s economic turmoil which began in 2007.
Dec. 15, 2011 | Posted by Rob Sentz-
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