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If you work in Healthcare and/or higher education...jobs are plentiful in the area. My wife and I are relocating to the area next month. We explored the healthcare and higher ed jobs and felt assured about the job opportunities. If you are looking in higher ed, let me know, I may be able to help.
Last edited by Green Irish Eyes; 06-01-2011 at 05:21 PM..
If you work in Healthcare and/or higher education...jobs are plentiful in the area. My wife and I are relocating to the area next month. We explored the healthcare and higher ed jobs and felt assured about the job opportunities. If you are looking in higher ed, let me know, I may be able to help.
There are a lot of *job openings* but there are also a lot of people vying for the same jobs. Competition is fierce for everything. For example, there a lot of jobs for software engineers, developers, etc, but only the best are being hired. Why would a hiring manager take anyone less from a huge pool of applicants? People from the rest of the country read all the nice articles about the Triangle and think this is the promised land. We have +/-10% unemployment too, do we not? Obviously higher in some sectors and lower in others, but still, we're not sitting at 4% while the rest of the country wallows at 10%. Take our advice.
Yes, the competition is strong. I learned first hand when I moved to Las Vegas 7 years ago. I had to switch careers due to some obscure state law regulating mental health. In the end I ended up taking a position at a small art college as a part time faculty member and then worked my way up from there. What really helped is that I knew someone in the field who help me to get an interview. It really is all about who you know here in Vegas...I am assuming that is the case in other places.
If you work in Healthcare and/or higher education...jobs are plentiful in the area. My wife and I are relocating to the area next month. We explored the healthcare and higher ed jobs and felt assured about the job opportunities. If you are looking in higher ed, let me know, I may be able to help.
Most of the people I know in higher education (here and in other states) are practical enough to find jobs before moving to a new place with only 2 months' savings stashed away.
If you work in Healthcare and/or higher education...jobs are plentiful in the area. My wife and I are relocating to the area next month. We explored the healthcare and higher ed jobs and felt assured about the job opportunities. If you are looking in higher ed, let me know, I may be able to help.
out of curiosity, to what sort of higher ed jobs are you referring? my DH is completing his dissertation & will be graduating later this year with his PhD. he wants to teach & he's dang good at it. but professort jobs (even in his field of science) still lean for now because state schools are having to make cuts.
i agree with meh - moving here with little to no savings & the starry-eyed hope to find a job is somewhat of a death-sentence (or at the very least a sick-sentence) if one is not the superest superstar that ever supered around the place.
to the OP - i agree with the recommendation to consider short-term (month-to-month) housing until you can land a job THEN sign the lease.
out of curiosity, to what sort of higher ed jobs are you referring? my DH is completing his dissertation & will be graduating later this year with his PhD. he wants to teach & he's dang good at it. but professort jobs (even in his field of science) still lean for now because state schools are having to make cuts.
i agree with meh - moving here with little to no savings & the starry-eyed hope to find a job is somewhat of a death-sentence (or at the very least a sick-sentence) if one is not the superest superstar that ever supered around the place.
to the OP - i agree with the recommendation to consider short-term (month-to-month) housing until you can land a job THEN sign the lease.
I work in the proprietary sector. We have a college in Durham if he is interested. What type of science degree?
I work in the proprietary sector. We have a college in Durham if he is interested. What type of science degree?
i'm not even certan what you mean by proprietary sector. his degree will be a PhD in biology/zoology/ecology. i basically was stating that getting a job in higher ed is just not what it used to be. have you read the chronicle of higher ed lately? professor positions (& especially tenure positions) are not that plentiful. heck, even admin positions in higher ed institutions are shrinking fast. the UNC system has had to do layoffs in many of those areas or they are simply not filling positions as people retire because the school (like most state agencies) is b-r-o-k-e.
i was just asking because you sounded quite self-assured about such positions when i'm not seeing many of them when we are looking at opportunities here & in other areas, period. i suspect things may change some after the new budget starts; let's hope for the positive.
If you work in Healthcare and/or higher education...jobs are plentiful in the area. My wife and I are relocating to the area next month. We explored the healthcare and higher ed jobs and felt assured about the job opportunities. If you are looking in higher ed, let me know, I may be able to help.
Define "healthcare". I am a nurse manager and I can tell you that positions for nurses, CMAs, and CNAs are not plentiful here. I came from a state that had such a nursing shortage that I could walk into any hospital and get hired within an hour. I've talked with nurses here in the triangle who have been searching for 7 months and longer with no luck. And these are experienced nurses, not new grads.
The Proprietary sector would include such colleges as ITT, the Art Institutes, DeVry, University of Phoenix, etc. These colleges are less susceptible to state budgets. I along with everyone else in this economy are not assured about much. Yet, over the years I have seen a lot of growth in these colleges versus a downward trend in state schools.
The Proprietary sector would include such colleges as ITT, the Art Institutes, DeVry, University of Phoenix, etc. These colleges are less susceptible to state budgets. I along with everyone else in this economy are not assured about much. Yet, over the years I have seen a lot of growth in these colleges versus a downward trend in state schools.
Ahhh. Well, that explains it.
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