Occupations With the Most Expected Hiringin New York City by the NYC Department of Labor
These occupations, in the labor market analyst's view, will offer a qualified jobseeker a reasonable expectation of obtaining employment in the region. The list is a product of the analyst's best judgment and historical seasonal hiring activity by month and is subject to revision at any time.
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Repair only one system or component on a vehicle, such as brakes, suspension, or radiator.
Bus Drivers, School
Transport students or special clients, such as the elderly or persons with disabilities. Ensure adherence to safety rules. May assist passengers in boarding or exiting.
Child Care Workers
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and child care institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
Employment, Recruitment, and Placement Specialists
Recruit and place workers.
Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
Install and repair industrial and commercial refrigerating systems.
Home Health Aides
Provide routine, personal healthcare, such as bathing, dressing, or grooming, to elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in the home of patients or in a residential care facility.
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk.
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of an establishment in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting boiler making insulating welding machining carpentry repairing electrical or mechanical equipment installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.
Registered Nurses
Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Include advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles.
Retail Salespersons
Sell merchandise, such as furniture, motor vehicles, appliances, or apparel in a retail establishment.
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.
Secretaries, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Perform routine clerical and administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.
Security Guards
Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules.
Truck Drivers, Light or Delivery Services
Drive a truck or van with a capacity of under 26,000 GVW, primarily to deliver or pick up merchandise or to deliver packages within a specified area. May require use of automatic routing or location software. May load and unload truck.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
LA Times' Resources for the Unemployed
The Los Angeles Times recently published an article with a whole host of helpful articles for the unemployed. Some takeaways for a national audience:
* National Foundation for Credit Counseling: Call (800) 388-2227 or visit the foundation's consumer website www.debtadvice.org.* The American Assn. of Debt Management Organizations has a help line at (800) 270-6696 that directs consumers to counseling agencies. Or go to www.aadmo.org and click the Find a Credit Counselor button....
* United Way helps support the 211 telephone hotline, which can connect you to job counseling resources and many other programs. Visit www.211.org and plug in your ZIP Code. [This is a service offered in many cities throughout the US.]
Unemployment Insurance: The Basics
What is Unemployment Insurance?
Unemployment insurance (UI) benefits are provided to those who are unemployed by "no fault of their own." Generally benefit lengths vary by State. Before President Obama's signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Federal government provided 20 to 33 weeks of extended benefits once you exhausted your State benefits. ARRA allows high unemployment states to extend benefits by 13-26 weeks. The Department of Labor provides information on the additional benefits, known as Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC).
Eligibility
The Department of Labor offers a useful overview of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
Some important take-aways:
-Each State operates its unemployment insurance program differently
- To be eligible for benefits,
"1. You must meet the State requirements for wages earned or time worked during an established period of time referred to as a 'base period.' (In most States, this is usually the first four out of the last five completed calendar quarters prior to the time that your claim is filed.)
2. You must be determined to be unemployed through no fault of your own (determined under State law), and meet other eligibility requirements of State law."
-When possible, file for UI in the State where you worked.
-You'll generally get your check 2-3 weeks after you file your claim.
How to Apply?
http://www.servicelocator.org/OWSLinks.asp offers an interactive map of the nation which allows you to click on your state to apply for UI benefits.
Some additional takeaways:
-UI benefit amounts vary. Generally they are based on a percentage of your earnings over a recent one year period up to your State's maximum amount. The following site is a useful benefits calculator. As of this writing, the calculator was out of service, but hopefully it will be up and running again soon:
http://www.epi.org/resources/datazone_uicalc/
-Don't be ashamed about applying for UI. While you were employed, you paid your unemployment insurance tax.
-If you were a Federal employee or Ex-Servicperson, the Department of Labor offers some advice tailored to you.
Unemployment insurance (UI) benefits are provided to those who are unemployed by "no fault of their own." Generally benefit lengths vary by State. Before President Obama's signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Federal government provided 20 to 33 weeks of extended benefits once you exhausted your State benefits. ARRA allows high unemployment states to extend benefits by 13-26 weeks. The Department of Labor provides information on the additional benefits, known as Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC).
Eligibility
The Department of Labor offers a useful overview of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
Some important take-aways:
-Each State operates its unemployment insurance program differently
- To be eligible for benefits,
"1. You must meet the State requirements for wages earned or time worked during an established period of time referred to as a 'base period.' (In most States, this is usually the first four out of the last five completed calendar quarters prior to the time that your claim is filed.)
2. You must be determined to be unemployed through no fault of your own (determined under State law), and meet other eligibility requirements of State law."
-When possible, file for UI in the State where you worked.
-You'll generally get your check 2-3 weeks after you file your claim.
How to Apply?
http://www.servicelocator.org/OWSLinks.asp offers an interactive map of the nation which allows you to click on your state to apply for UI benefits.
Some additional takeaways:-UI benefit amounts vary. Generally they are based on a percentage of your earnings over a recent one year period up to your State's maximum amount. The following site is a useful benefits calculator. As of this writing, the calculator was out of service, but hopefully it will be up and running again soon:
http://www.epi.org/resources/datazone_uicalc/
-Don't be ashamed about applying for UI. While you were employed, you paid your unemployment insurance tax.
-If you were a Federal employee or Ex-Servicperson, the Department of Labor offers some advice tailored to you.
What to Do if You're Laid Off
CNN's Clark Howard offers a host of resources of what to do if you're laid off. Howard writes, "....First, don't panic! You're going to need to apply for unemployment insurance. [Our next posts will offer some advice on how to do that]....I'm also a big believer in networking groups and unemployment support groups. Networking for jobs has become something of a lost art in our country because people think the Internet replaces everything else. It doesn't. However, there are ways to use the Internet to hook up with powerful networking groups. There's even a new organization called LaidOffCamp that is like a free day camp for the underemployed....When you are job hunting on the Internet, be sure to check out screen-scraper sites like SimplyHired and Indeed.com. They're both "one-stop shops" that collect content from all the traditional job sites such as Monster and Yahoo! HotJobs, plus the career pages of individual company sites.
In addition, The Boston Globe recently recommended several specialty sites when you're looking for work in a specific field. BioSpace.com is geared toward the science and biotechnology fields; Idealist.org focuses on the nonprofit charity world; and for those who are 50 years or older, there's a site called WorkForce50.com.
In the course of your job search, you may find that you need money immediately and can't sit around waiting for a job offer to materialize. In that case, certain skill sets -- Web design, programming, marketing and videography, to name a few -- lend themselves to consulting work or freelancing on a project.
The Internet also offers a variety of sites that match freelancers up with employers. A recent article in The San Francisco Chronicle suggested ELance.com, oDesk.com, Guru.com and crowdSPRING.com as starting points...."
Welcome to Unemployment 411
Unemployment across the nation has reached record highs. When many Americans find themselves without jobs, however, they often don't know where to turn.
The internet offers a myriad of resources for the unemployed, but navigating these resources is often challenging and time-consuming, and frequently a general understanding of the process is required. Our goal in creating Unemployment 411 is to provide a one stop shop for what to do and where to turn when you lose your job. While we are not a job site with openings, like Monster or CareerBuilder, we do post resources to help position yourself to find a new job.
Our bloggers are comprised of leadership within MAXIMUS, a leading provider of government programs across the US and the world. Many of our writers currently run or have run employment programs that help individuals secure sustainable jobs. We also reach out to members of the think tank and academic communities and to representatives from federal, state, and county governments to write posts.
We hope you find our site helpful. In all honesty, this blog is our organization's first foray into the blogosphere, so we'll certainly have to tweak things as we go along. But please keep in mind, this is by no means something we're being paid to offer by a government client or anyone for that matter. We started it because we have a team of passionate staff, who thought a blog would be the easiest way to disseminate best practices from our programs to the general public.
So feel free to post a comment--suggest how we can tailor the site to better fit your needs; share a tip you think other readers may find useful; connect with others. If you like what you see, please pass our blog along.
Finally, thanks for checking us out and good luck!
The internet offers a myriad of resources for the unemployed, but navigating these resources is often challenging and time-consuming, and frequently a general understanding of the process is required. Our goal in creating Unemployment 411 is to provide a one stop shop for what to do and where to turn when you lose your job. While we are not a job site with openings, like Monster or CareerBuilder, we do post resources to help position yourself to find a new job.
Our bloggers are comprised of leadership within MAXIMUS, a leading provider of government programs across the US and the world. Many of our writers currently run or have run employment programs that help individuals secure sustainable jobs. We also reach out to members of the think tank and academic communities and to representatives from federal, state, and county governments to write posts.
We hope you find our site helpful. In all honesty, this blog is our organization's first foray into the blogosphere, so we'll certainly have to tweak things as we go along. But please keep in mind, this is by no means something we're being paid to offer by a government client or anyone for that matter. We started it because we have a team of passionate staff, who thought a blog would be the easiest way to disseminate best practices from our programs to the general public.
So feel free to post a comment--suggest how we can tailor the site to better fit your needs; share a tip you think other readers may find useful; connect with others. If you like what you see, please pass our blog along.
Finally, thanks for checking us out and good luck!
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