How is the Houston Job Market now?

[piyf]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Thought it was stabilizing but Shell is laying off and Valero is idling plants. Most places are in a hiring freeze through the end of the year.

Thank the lord I didn't get picked for the operator job a year ago.

[Topaz]

My husband works for a national consulting firm that just had its fifth round of layoffs. They depend on construction projects for much of their business so the downturn is really affecting them. The Houston office has been less impacted than some of the other offices, but is definitely not thriving, either.

[Oildog]

NASA is highly dependent on government funding so I don't expect them to be hiring any time soon. Unless they start a cash for clunker satellite program.

[Oildog]

Originally Posted by danieloneil01

Thank the lord I didn't get picked for the operator job a year ago.

I think the layoffs are more for salaried folks. The plants are already pretty lean.

[Supermac34]

I am starting my new job at BP in about a week. I am joining a group that is hiring about 25 new people. Its a pretty high level corporate position and I'm very excited.

I am moving from my old job at HP. I started looking about February on the job market, so it took about six months to find this job, but I was very picky (I could afford to be, I was still working), and actually turned down three other job offers along the way.

I don't know what this says about the job market as a whole, but I found it fairly easy to gain interviews and to get offers in Houston.

[Mom2Feebs]

Originally Posted by Supermac34

I am starting my new job at BP in about a week. I am joining a group that is hiring about 25 new people. Its a pretty high level corporate position and I'm very excited.

I am moving from my old job at HP. I started looking about February on the job market, so it took about six months to find this job, but I was very picky (I could afford to be, I was still working), and actually turned down three other job offers along the way.

I don't know what this says about the job market as a whole, but I found it fairly easy to gain interviews and to get offers in Houston.

I would think after that huge oil find in the Gulf that BP landed just recently, your job will be pretty secure for a while! Congrats!

[SKIM702]

I just moved to Houston 3 weeks ago from Las Vegas and worked with a job recruiter once I arrived. I have already received two competitive offers. I work in the Finance/Accounting field. There seems to be some great job opportunities still out there, but more competition for the positions.

Houston market = 100x better than Las Vegas market

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

Houston is mostly Oil & Nasa and when that's down you gotta look elsewhere. But I'm hurting at 55 weeks unemployed...

NASA is only a small slice in the pie that makes up Houston's local economy. Oil, energy, medicine, manufacturing, & shipping make up the majority.