Friday, January 30, 2009

Jobs in the Bay Area and how to find them

By Alex Wu

Living in the Bay area is a wonderful experience, since it provides numerous chances for entertainment, cultural and educational development, as well as numerous job opportunities in many different sectors and fields of the corporate life.

Today there are more than one ways to learn about new jobs and inform yourself on the latest announcements, employment opportunities and news from the corporate world: except for the magazines and newspapers that either focus completely on the news of the local business and industrial world having classifieds as well, there are many websites that do exactly what the older job agencies did: Bring the employees and employers closer. The potential employees have the chance to find all the latest job opportunities and also upload their resume in a database online, while the employers can browse through those databases and locate skilled and competent professionals who meet their theoretical and practical requirements for particular positions.

Since we are referring to the Bay area, we cannot avoid indicating the importance of the IT sector and field in the area, with the numerous large or small businesses offering a wide selection of job opportunities. High qualified experts will always be in demand in this particular area due to the increasing involvement of the Internet in our lives.

Many job announcements covering the Health Field are announced every month in the Bay area, since there is a significant number of clinics of Western or Alternative medicine and many private therapists of all kinds who work in the region and ask either for employees and supportive personnel or for co workers and partners.

Another booming area of employment in the Bay is the health field, although in this case the selection is truly wide, as there is a big demand for practitioners, doctors and chiropractors, as well as supporting stuff for health related facilities. Human Resources is also a very hot field today in the area, mostly because of the large companies and business groups, as well as the multiethnic and multicultural character of the region that increases the demand of administrative jobs, with good advancing potentials.

As it is expected in an area where constructions and other technical works flourish, the demand for experienced mechanics, technicians and architects is also high. However it is known that all professions related to creative arts and journalism have great potentials in the Bay area. Writing and editing jobs, marketing, PR and journalists, especially freelancers or independent are very popular due to the existence of many independent press agencies and online media, including alternative journalism.

The Bay Area is among the most active in the employment field, with an average of 4000-4500 new jobs every month. The majority of them are located in the larger cities, such as San Francisco and Oakland, however there are many smaller areas of the region that need university graduates and college kids who are willing to work in bigger or smaller companies and earn some useful experience.

Employees and employers benefit from the existence of those websites mostly because they can come in touch with each other easily and locate the ads or professionals they need, based on their requirements. The Bay area jobs offer good remuneration and benefit packages which make them even more attractive and popular. - 16459

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