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That total number of applicants seems a little high considering there is a total of 14k employees system-wide. If they filled the 2,723 positions out of the 66,500 total applicants, that's around 24.5 applicants per posted position. You wouldn't think that every position would have that many applicants, especially when you consider that almost every medical system is struggling to find nurses. Looking at the WVU Medicine careers site, they have 205 nursing opening posted just for Morgantown.
I wonder what the applicant numbers are at say UPMC, Johns Hopkins, UK Health Care, UNC Health Care, and UVA Health System.
Where are you finding the 2018 tables? The most recent I have found to through July 2017. They show Mon County growing by 400 people during the year. I don't think any area will have constant growth every year. It always goes in cycles. The job losses at Mylan, Swanson, and the coal mine are not repeated very often, and Mylan assures everyone that bargaining unit employees will not be laid off. I have no news about the coal mine situation. WVU Medicine hiring goes in spurts too, and they are getting ready for another round of hiring for the new children's hospital. In spite of a couple setbacks, the employment prospects look solid around here.
Thanks. Berkeley's growth continues to be remarkable. The 259 growth for Mon County is less than usual, but in view of the fact that it is taking place in spite of the loss of a couple hundred IT jobs at Mylan and coal mine layoffs, I believe, is a testament to the strength of growth at WVU Medicine. I took their applicant and hire numbers directly from their site, but I believe it is important to remember that available workers in various categories differ from category to category. For example, there might well be hundreds of as yet unfilled nursing positions for which they are vigorously hiring, and I know they are looking for more than a hundred physicians for their Morgantown operations, but they might be full up for orderly, office, and CNA positions. Especially for the support staff, those jobs are very desirable compared with say working in a physician's private office because they have regular benefits packages.
Unless something drastic occurs Mon County and Morgantown should continue to grow. It may not always be a consistent rate as you alluded earlier but the university and medical community create job opportunities that simply do not exist in other areas.
Berkeley and Jefferson's growth will likely pick up steam as the DC area economy continues to be strong and prices keep increasing in the closer-in suburbs. Neighboring Loudoun County, Virginia is still among the fastest growing larger counties in the country but the huge 'bang for your buck' factor it once offered compared to counties closer to the Beltway has greatly diminished. Add in the fact that the western half of the county is all but off limits to suburban development to protect the 'rural' flavor around the vineyards, breweries, battlefields, etc and you have no other place for the growth to go other than farther west towards Charles Town, Martinsburg and Winchester.
Unless something drastic occurs Mon County and Morgantown should continue to grow. It may not always be a consistent rate as you alluded earlier but the university and medical community create job opportunities that simply do not exist in other areas.
Berkeley and Jefferson's growth will likely pick up steam as the DC area economy continues to be strong and prices keep increasing in the closer-in suburbs. Neighboring Loudoun County, Virginia is still among the fastest growing larger counties in the country but the huge 'bang for your buck' factor it once offered compared to counties closer to the Beltway has greatly diminished. Add in the fact that the western half of the county is all but off limits to suburban development to protect the 'rural' flavor around the vineyards, breweries, battlefields, etc and you have no other place for the growth to go other than farther west towards Charles Town, Martinsburg and Winchester.
I agree. but at some point in the very near future, both regions are going to reach the simple mean and any gains will be small if at all. Geography and lack of infrastructure will hold back Monongalia County and the ever-rising cost of land will do the same in the eastern panhandle. Any further growth past a certain point will only come by effort and at that point both locations will stabilize for a generation or so. I do not see Mon Co growing by the past rate and in fact think it may already be cooling off to an ebb state. Berkley and Jefferson still have some room but that is only going to last another 5 to 10 years and then they too will be static. We saw it in Putnam. After that happens, where will growth come in the state? I do not see any area that will grow after these two locations reach a mean.
I agree. but at some point in the very near future, both regions are going to reach the simple mean and any gains will be small if at all. Geography and lack of infrastructure will hold back Monongalia County and the ever-rising cost of land will do the same in the eastern panhandle. Any further growth past a certain point will only come by effort and at that point both locations will stabilize for a generation or so. I do not see Mon Co growing by the past rate and in fact think it may already be cooling off to an ebb state. Berkley and Jefferson still have some room but that is only going to last another 5 to 10 years and then they too will be static. We saw it in Putnam. After that happens, where will growth come in the state? I do not see any area that will grow after these two locations reach a mean.
I don't know how long it has been since you've been to Mon County, and while our infrastructure is inadequate, we are making progress in that regard, but the development efforts now are in the western end of the county between Morgantown and Mylan Park. We are nowhere near the saturation point you mentioned. The infrastructure is being put in place along with development there. There will be more urban development too as The University expands on the Downtown Campus along the Mon River.
At some point, Martinsburg will start growing up instead of just out.
I’ve never understood why it is not apparent to WV towns of any size that they need to maximize their use of space by building up? Charleston kind of did that in the 60’s but overall WV towns do not recognize how little land they actually have. As for the reference to Putnam I can definitely see where it looks like most usable relatively flat land is gone. Again if WV wants to grow then some outside of the box thinking needs to come into play on how to develop and maximize land usage potential.
I don't know how long it has been since you've been to Mon County, and while our infrastructure is inadequate, we are making progress in that regard, but the development efforts now are in the western end of the county between Morgantown and Mylan Park. We are nowhere near the saturation point you mentioned. The infrastructure is being put in place along with development there. There will be more urban development too as The University expands on the Downtown Campus along the Mon River.
At some point, Martinsburg will start growing up instead of just out.
You are correct to point out that Monongalia County has heavily invested in infrastructure, but it is like anything else, all of the easy to do stuff has been done. They are now being forced to work on the less easy projects in areas that are further out and in rougher, less urbanized (for now) terrain. After that, they get into the area where there will only be growth if they find gold in them hills. Places like Southern California can build on a cliff and make a mint doing it, but that is not going to be a call in Monongalia County. All of the good land has been utilized, most if not all of the decent land has been developed and they are now moving out to those areas that are either too remote for now to make it financially sound or the land is just to costly to build on. That is going to stunt future growth and actually, I think it is already being felt. Monongalia County probably only has effective room with the current set up for a few more thousand and then it is at pool stage until another big effort comes in to build more in a generation or so.
I’ve never understood why it is not apparent to WV towns of any size that they need to maximize their use of space by building up? Charleston kind of did that in the 60’s but overall WV towns do not recognize how little land they actually have. As for the reference to Putnam I can definitely see where it looks like most usable relatively flat land is gone. Again if WV wants to grow then some outside of the box thinking needs to come into play on how to develop and maximize land usage potential.
You may have noticed that growth that was once so hot in Putnam County is now only barely in the positive. They have reached pool stage because to expand further costs more money than most want to pay.
I don't know how long it has been since you've been to Mon County, and while our infrastructure is inadequate, we are making progress in that regard, but the development efforts now are in the western end of the county between Morgantown and Mylan Park. We are nowhere near the saturation point you mentioned. The infrastructure is being put in place along with development there. There will be more urban development too as The University expands on the Downtown Campus along the Mon River.
At some point, Martinsburg will start growing up instead of just out.
Martinsburg has to solve it's crime/drug issues before anyone is going to do anything major there. Of all of the places in the state, it has the worst crime and you would expect that to be in Huntington or Charleston, heck even Morgantown before Martinsburg. But drug-related crime is highest in Martinsburg per capita.
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