Not Everyone is Laying Off Workers Because of Coronavirus. These Are the Most in-demand Jobs Right Now. (vox.com) 68
A record 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, according to Thursday's Labor Department report, compared with around 280,000 a week earlier. That said, it hasn't all been bad news for those in search of work, as the pandemic places increased demand on industries like health care and delivery services. 10 most in-demand jobs in the US: Store associate
System operator
Certified public accountant
Health care specialist
Construction worker
Warehouse manager
Psychologist
Vehicle mechanic
Academic adviser
Delivery driver Companies with the most open jobs in the US: 7-Eleven
Army National Guard
KPMG
Amazon
Genentech
Lowe's
HCA Healthcare
Intuit
Nepris
Whole Foods
System operator
Certified public accountant
Health care specialist
Construction worker
Warehouse manager
Psychologist
Vehicle mechanic
Academic adviser
Delivery driver Companies with the most open jobs in the US: 7-Eleven
Army National Guard
KPMG
Amazon
Genentech
Lowe's
HCA Healthcare
Intuit
Nepris
Whole Foods
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Err....why?
I mean, most of the folks out of work, the majority it seems are those in the service business. Seems they'd be a natural fit for trying to fill different service jobs that are in NEED.
You know?
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Re:Ms. Mash... (Score:5, Insightful)
Our local grocery store is advertising a lot of open temporary positions that are specifically related to the coronavirus outbreak. They're increasing checkout clerks to get people through the store faster, and they're also hiring people to help with cleaning overnight.
Since a large percentage of the newly-unemployed are also (hopefully) only temporarily out of work, this does seem like a reasonably good fit.
Re: Ms. Mash... (Score:2)
Are you stupid, or are you trying to come up with filler?
Why can't it be both?
The jobs nobody wants are whats hiring? (Score:2)
Think about that. We have a plague and the only open jobs are the ones that force people to come in contact with the general public.
Every software developer job i have applied to has been canceled; I'm about to be forced to start my own company.
Re: The jobs nobody wants are whats hiring? (Score:1)
The jobs nobody wants...
It's not that nobody wants them; it's that they don't pay enough for anyone to actually get anywhere... but while you're busy learning that the hard way, they're doing everything they can to demoralize you and burn you out, especially the "working dead, " the elderly whose retirements most of the billionaires continually steal.
And no; the solution to injustice - financial or any other sort is actual justice, not 'Empowering the State' to control every aspect of our lives by committee.
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What's your proposed mechanism for getting, or even defining, "actual justice"? Apparently it doesn't involve a government or corporation. Worker's syndicates have had marginal success. Communes tend to fall apart. Unions without regulation become as corrupt as the corporations they bargain with. Revolutions have a strong tendency to turn into dictatorships. So what are you proposing?
Re: The jobs nobody wants are whats hiring? (Score:1)
We donâ(TM)t have a plague ... your analogy is flawed from the start.
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We donâ(TM)t have a plague ... your analogy is flawed from the start.
1a: a disastrous evil or affliction : CALAMITY
b: a destructively numerous influx or multiplication of a noxious animal : INFESTATION
a plague of locusts
2a: an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality : PESTILENCE
b: a virulent contagious febrile disease that is caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and that occurs in bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic forms
— called also black death
3a: a cause of irritation : NUISANCE
b: a sudden unwelcome outbreak
a plague of burglaries
Seems like we have 1a, and oh, look at that the definition in 2a also fits, 3b also fits, unless you WANT this shit spreading around. 3a can also be used to describe this outbreak too, it's a damn nuisance to have to stay home, and for stores to be barren. That's just nitpicking though.
Maybe you should understand the etymologies of words before you call out others. Oh, and fix your stupid ios shit, it literally takes like 3 seconds and your post won't look like you just smashed a damn keyboard to type it.
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An analysis [nytimes.com] published by the New York Times
Yeah, I liked that article too, but you might want to mention that the analysis in question was in the "opinion" section, and written by the "former chief editor of the Hong Kong Economic Journal".
I agree with him, but ... come on.
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I'm about to be forced to start my own company.
With a name like pimpsoftcom I would have thought you already did.
Construction Worker? (Score:2)
Is this more B.S. to excuse bringing in H1 and H1 B labor?
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We're not building anything? Maybe you're not building anything... but there's loads of companies around that are still doing plenty of building.
But sure, it's all an excuse to bring in migrant workers, cause we all know Vox articles are a huge driving force in dictating the flow of H1 workers.
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If Democrats cared as much about the American people as they do about hating Trump, this wouldn't even be in question.
Right. It's those darn Democrats who don't care about America [tumblr.com].
Perhaps had the con artist not spent two months denying there was an issue [imgur.com] he wouldn't be whining to companies they need to do something now [marketwatch.com].
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In Washington State, construction work is included on the list of essential services specifically exempt from the stay-at-home orders.
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It make a lot of sense with everyone staying in it makes it a lot easier to do a lot of construction and road projects that would normally be to difficult to do because of crowding or rush hour traffic. If some one was looking for a time to paint all of times square you couldn't ask for a better chance.
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It make a lot of sense with everyone staying in it makes it a lot easier to do a lot of construction and road projects that would normally be to difficult to do because of crowding or rush hour traffic.
This is Washington State we're talking about. From my time living there, Seattle absolutely does not care how many streets they close in the middle of rush hour traffic, construction does what it wants. So, no difference now. It's the main reason I left - it was a half-hour commute each way from my office building to the freeway ramp I could see from my window.
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This is Washington State we're talking about. From my time living there, Seattle absolutely does not care how many streets they close in the middle of rush hour traffic, construction does what it wants.
Well, I to some degree I share your opinion. But to be fair, a lot of road maintenance and repair requires dry weather - so around here the window when that can be relied on is rather short.
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No people around? Thats generations of decade scale nation building project time.
Personal protective equipment and repair all the roads all over the USA.
Fix the water systems.
Run optical all over the USA. That a remote ski town? Community optical down the streets. Connect every hotel, resort, hou
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Gov and mil will do and fund anything to keep the most advanced skills in place all over the USA.
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When I"m out riding my bicycle in the mornings for exercise, I see all the new home construction still going on here.
I think in some parts, the construction business is exempt from the shutdown?
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When I"m out riding my bicycle in the mornings for exercise
You went outside for exercise?!
Murderer!!!
Re: Construction Worker? (Score:2)
Yes, there are no people out there.
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I'm gonna be shopping for a new car very soon. Should be some great deals coming along, it is gonna be a buyers market for a while.
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we're not building anything.
All the construction in my neighborhood is going full force. The Austin area is in the middle of the biggest-ever constriction boom, and construction workers were of course considered "essential". People living pay-check-to-paycheck weren't the ones buying new houses in the first place.
I guess the Grocery stores, but that seems like bunk, there's 3.28 million laid off workers right now. I can teach folks to stock shelves and run a cash register in a couple of days/weeks.
Yes, and right now there's a spike in labor demand precisely because anyone can be trained to do the work - new workers can be productive in time to be a net positive. If you're temporarily barred from your normal hourly j
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Farms need to farm.
Farms need to send what they farm to a factory... needs a truck..vans to bring support services to a farm. Trucks need service.
The factory needs parts... products they use every shift... trucks, vans... trucks and vans that need service.
Small shops, large brands need to get products and services to people all over a city... gov allowed transport cars, vans, SUV, trucks that need service.
People who work in services that can never stop.. plumbing, water, gas
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So who will have the highest unemployment rate, why those employed in the elderly care industry, a lot of their clients will no longer be requiring those services (it will also take some years for the next round of customers to age sufficiently) but funeral services are looking up, though a bit boom bust.
Surely not too early ;D. Hey I'm old, it's allowed.
Corona as an Excuse (Score:2)
Will be interesting to see whether companies not impacted by the shutdown use this as an opportunity to skim the fat without making headlines as that definitely happened during the previous recession.
Intuit? The Quicken people? (Score:2)
Could someone please let me know why they are now suddenly hiring enough to be systemically important?
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I would have thought they'd have already staffed up and given the tax extension it seems even less urgent.
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I would have thought they'd have already staffed up
They have and the always still need more. For a short time.
Re:Intuit? The Quicken people? (Score:5, Insightful)
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As a result, most of the country is going to file a return within the next 2-3 weeks, and Quicken is one of the tools people use to calculate their tax return.
Think you mean in next 2-3 *months* now :)
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That's a typo. Should say Inuit. They're taking on lots of new people for subsistence ice fishing, seal clubbing and dog mushing in the frozen North as that becomes an attractive option for social distancing.
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Could someone please let me know why they are now suddenly hiring enough to be systemically important?
Here's a cynical answer.
Included in the huge $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill - as well as the additional related bills still in debate - is a substantial amount of what we in the states refer to as "pork". This term refers to large amounts of money which have little to do with actually addressing the stated purpose of a congressional bill, but which benefit particular well-connected benefactors of individual senators and house members.
We saw the same thing back in 2008. It's a practice both political pa
Might want to remove construction from that list (Score:1)
Worth keeping in mind (Score:2)
Many of those unemployed will likely be asked to come back to their old jobs when things return to normal. Many of the new jobs will evaporate when things return to normal.
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Many of those unemployed will likely be asked to come back to their old jobs when things return to normal.
Uh huh. Assuming the businesses didn't close down, or use this as an opportunity to right-size.
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Which is why I said 'many' and specifically avoided the word 'all'.
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Thats why the really smart nations are looking after their most skilled and expert workers during the months of wuflu.
So when wuflu is more understandable their great nations are ready to export and open.
Nations that fail to care for their own experts will be left as 3rd and 4th world nations importing needed products, experts and services.
Finally I feel vindicated (Score:5, Funny)
"I'm a professional telephone sanitizer" doesn't sound stupid now, does it? Yeah, yeah, I'll get to your phone when I fucking get to it, you dirty bastards.
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Even in the story, civilization was wiped out by the absence of telephone sanitizers.
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And people laughed at the guy that wipes down the loads. But who's laughing now?!
Army National Guard is not an job! (Score:2)
Army National Guard is not an job!
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I'll say it's not.
I joined the Army National Guard, and suddenly found myself posted in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, guarding an ambassador during the peace talks. But hey, they have great wine there, at least.
People need food, fun and services (Score:1)
Farms need workers. Now and for the next season. Years of food to get ready.
Everything a farm needs to be productive has to be supported.
Food production needs workers. From the farm to a factory. Then to a city.
People are shopping from home. That needs workers to get products, services to a city, to a person.
Shops need to get products in. Workers.
Rail, trucks, ports have to move food, products around.
Small apps are need
Internet help desk too (Score:2)
My company operates call centers for Internet support for a lot of independent and rural telephone and electric companies. As more people are trying to work from home, either for the first time ever, or for the first time for an extended period, our call volume has gone up over 50% (that's the number I heard a week or so ago, so may be even more now). The call center department is trying to figure out how to interview, hire, and train a big batch of new people (possibly temporarily), without as little as po
One sure thing (Score:2)
Walk into any supermarket, and they will be announcing open positions over the PA.
Controls Engineers are in demand (Score:2)
We do a lot of work for the people that use the PLCs and for the people that make the PLCs. All our customers are critical industries. We're getting swamped.
Wal-mart (Score:2)
VA (Score:1)
Tech jobs available on Hired.com (Score:1)