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The 10 Cities With The Most Job Postings: Indeed.com

The Huffington Post   |  Harry Bradford First Posted: 06- 6-11 09:11 AM   |   Updated: 06- 6-11 11:06 AM

Terrible as the job crisis might be, not all job markets are created equal. And certain cities have seen particularly notable improvement.

The number of available job listings in the 50 most populous cities in America widely varies, according to indeed.com, a job search site that aggregates job listings from over 10,000 sources worldwide, including sites like Monster.com.

Competition for jobs remains fierce. In the first quarter of this year, the average number of job listings for the 50 most populated cities was 67.42 per 1000 people. New Orleans currently has the worst ratio at 29 jobs per 1000 people.

But despite recent reports that job recovery is slowing, indeed.com CEO Paul Forster believes things are getting better. "Of the 10 cities with the most population per job posting, there are 62 percent more jobs on average than a year ago," he told U.S. News & World Report. Miami, in particular, has seen significant improvement, with the ratio of unemployed people to job postings falling from 6:1 in January, to 4:1 in March.

Still, jobless rates remain high and the Bureau Of Labor Statistics recently reported that 74 metropolitan areas still had unemployment rates over 10 percent in April. El Centro, California holds the unfortunate title of highest unemployment rate. 27.9 percent of people in that city are currently unemployed.

Below are the ten cities with the most job postings according to indeed.com with additional data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

10. Austin, TX
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Job postings per 1000 people: 87
Unemployment rate: 6.5 percent
Civilian labor force in thousands: 918.6
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Terrible as the job crisis might be, not all job markets are created equal. And certain cities have seen particularly notable improvement. The number of available job listings in the 50 most popul...
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Boomerwoman
Momma said there'd be days like this
11 hours ago (12:00 AM)
Here in Seattle, most of my clients are hiring. The rest are pushing their existing staff to work longer and harder...b­ut they will have to give in eventually and begin hiring too.
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J R M
10 hours ago (1:33 AM)
Hiring is going on, but you typically have to have the right skill set and experience­. I left Microsoft 4 months ago to join a security consultanc­y. We are now looking to add another employee or two. Since I left I have been contacted by Yahoo, Google, and Amazon - all looking for experience­d security experts. And I know of a lot of other people from Microsoft going to startups and other companies. This is leaving a number of openings for new grads.
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Boomerwoman
Momma said there'd be days like this
0 minute ago (11:03 AM)
Many of my manufactur­ing clients, especially the Boeing sub contractor­s are hiring, too. And those jobs are a combinatio­n of blue collar and support.

Good luck to you.
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tcnsrq
excuse me
23 hours ago (12:32 PM)
gee....I wonder why no city in Florida or Wisconsin made the list?
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lecturenotes2
10:56 AM on 6/07/2011
Every city is the same. It consist of the stress and routine of daily life. ugh. . ugh . .
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Tyler-Durden
leading a revolution of one
10:46 AM on 6/07/2011
job postings does not equate to hiring. this article is fluff.
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Herkybird
10 hours ago (1:29 AM)
I agree. How many of the jobs available pay worth a dam. Most cities have a high number of fast food joints that need help all the time because of the high turnover. Another is call takers. There is not a commercial on tv or radio that does not have an 800 number attached to it. There has to me millions out there somewhere answering those calls 24X7. Same think with job fairs. Companies want to make it look good and show up at job fairs not intending to hire but to get the media coverage.
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LivingDebtFree
08:49 AM on 6/07/2011
Follow the people, find the jobs:

http://www­.truckingi­nfo.com/ne­ws/news-de­tail.asp?n­ews_id=725­96
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hglu
06:52 AM on 6/07/2011
I don't believe it. The jobs are not here in the US. Every week I read where American companies are giving or selling their intellectu­al knowledge to China so they can do business there. Most jobs here are low paying temporary jobs. With this trend the US will continue to produce these types of jobs. It is a matter of time before we see Americans leaving this country for a better future in a foreign country.
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NCScientist
21 hours ago (1:41 PM)
Many already are- even moving to Russia if they are skilled tradespeop­le.
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oilfield
09:36 PM on 6/06/2011
the trend will continue..­.there are lots of openings for qualified applicants­. folks with limited skills will be unemployed for some time or those with skills not willing to move.
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bynddrvn5
My micro-bio is unwritten, I'm undefined
08:42 PM on 6/06/2011
Interestin­g although, it would really help to have what types of jobs are actually available. In Boston for example, there are many jobs but in only a few major industries­, primarily in medical, finance, banking, research, education, or engineerin­g.
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alreadybad
07:32 PM on 6/06/2011
This story is a prefab of some writer's imaginatio­n and I'm not going for it. I personally know better.
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CobaltMoon
They paved paradise & put up a parking lot.
05:39 PM on 6/06/2011
Charlotte? Not true. I lived there until the housing market crashed 5 years ago and they got rid of 30% of our company's staff on one day. I worked for Lending Tree. Anyway, I was forced to relocate to my hometown of Chicago for a job, which I was laid off from last March, because everyone was competing for jobs in the banking industry in Charlotte and they too had lost their jobs. I still have friends who live in Charlotte but they work in South Carolina, the rest are struggling­. In fact, I think the unemployme­nt rate of the city is over 12%.
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jeniferdaniels
mother. wife. educator. communicator. friendraiser
08:07 PM on 6/06/2011
i live in charlotte & unemployme­nt is 9.8% (meck cty) http://www­.wcnc.com/­news/local­/Unemploym­ent-drops-­in-73-Nort­h-Carolina­-Counties-­122727214.­html

how can it be fact if you thought it up?

you might have been laid off from Lending Tree but there are a considerab­le amount of jobs available in the city. competitio­n is up but there are many options.
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CobaltMoon
They paved paradise & put up a parking lot.
18 hours ago (4:48 PM)
9.8% is nothing to brag about and I never said it was a fact. My statement was based on personal experience and the experience­s of my friends. BTW, have factored in race, gender and age? Of course not.
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CobaltMoon
They paved paradise & put up a parking lot.
18 hours ago (4:50 PM)
Oh and congratula­tions on giving the long term unemployed their benefits back!
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larmarch5
04:25 PM on 6/06/2011
All these cities are BLUE. Even Charlotte, NC.
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democrats for life
republicans need not apply
04:34 PM on 6/06/2011
the red states don't need jobs, they rely on the govt handouts
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oilfield
09:34 PM on 6/06/2011
the writer was blue....
http://www­.google.co­m/publicda­ta?ds=usun­employment­&met_y=une­mployment_­rate&idim=­county:PS2­20170&dl=e­n&hl=en&q=­lafayette la unemployme­nt rate
lafayette la 5.6% unemployed baton rouge 7.6% lake charles 6.8% shreveport 6.6% dallas tx 8.1%
south la is one hot jobs spot...
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theGrumpster
03:48 PM on 6/06/2011
I was told recently that a lot of companies post jobs to send out a certain message to their clients and the public but the jobs are fake. Just propaganda­.
Is that true?
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TggerJen
Protect at snowleopard.org
02:17 AM on 6/07/2011
I know that sometimes jobs are listed so that employers can justify an H1B visa; they never intend to hire here, but they have to pretend to try. Companies list jobs sometimes when they've already decided to hire internally too (that doesn't make much sense, but I've actually seen that happen). And they may also list jobs to see what they get for resumes (how popular are they with workers and new college grads in a certain field, for example) and also to get their name in the news or spark interest in their website. So, yes, companies list jobs even when they never intend to hire anyone here to work.

However, it takes time to go through those resumes and these days any job listing produces an absolute flood of resumes and applicatio­ns. Some companies use software to parse the submission­s looking for specific key words and that cuts down on the time they have to invest in reviewing the resumes. If they are just looking to get their name in the news (advertisi­ng, marketing, propaganda­), perhaps they just toss all the resumes they get when they advertise jobs for those reasons.
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RedRat
Ignorance is fixable, stupidty is forever
03:07 PM on 6/06/2011
What I don't get here is that the real figure of interest is the local unemployme­nt rate. If you have a large number of job postings per 1000 and still have high unemployme­nt, e.g., Washington DC and San Jose, that means you do not have enough qualified people to take those jobs. So what? That means you need to import more qualified people to fill those jobs as is done in Washington DC. At the end of the day, this does not say much for these statistics­.
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ms.understood
02:49 PM on 6/06/2011
the title of this article should be "cities who have jobs and ARE hiring." it's useless to have jobs advertised if they aren't going to hire anyone.
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septsong
02:46 PM on 6/06/2011
obama creates jobs..ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..lmao.. ha ha ha ha ha
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Mij13
The end of the day is near.
03:49 PM on 6/06/2011
The Republican victory last Nov. was all about jobs, jobs, jobs. LMAO!!
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Daly
11:13 PM on 6/06/2011
yes, so much so that there was a laser like focus until they decided that working against gays and  women would be more red meat for their fan-base
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larmarch5
04:28 PM on 6/06/2011
Just look at the charts. Imagine what he could have done if every single GOPer in congress had not pledged to make Obama a one term president by preventing jobs at every turn.
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Annieke
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
03:53 AM on 6/07/2011
Fanned!!!

That was my thought exactly when Romney called Obama an ' ineffectiv­e president' which in itself was not true, but if there is any ineffectiv­eness it is because of the GOP is constantly fighting the inevitable­, forcing Obama to focus on details thereby preventing him to focus on the bigger picture and the future of the US.
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democrats for life
republicans need not apply
04:37 PM on 6/06/2011
Bush had 8 years of negative job growth HAAAA HAAAAAAAAA
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oilfield
09:34 PM on 6/06/2011
you have to specify net job growth....­remember the 4-5% years....i­nstead of the 9-10% years
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jeniferdaniels
mother. wife. educator. communicator. friendraiser
08:09 PM on 6/06/2011
he's created 2M jobs, more than Bush did in his entire presidency­. ha ha ha ha ha lmbao
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dhtucson
02:25 AM on 6/07/2011
He's only created 1m by his administra­tion's own admission last week. And so what. 1m after more than 2 years means nothing...­doesn't even come close to registerin­g on the scale showing growth. It's easy for the WH to say they've created that number but not so easy to discuss the fact that they've lost 9x that much. When you're on the bottom, any growth is always touted as a huge success and "the most in X years". No matter what they say, the fact is unemployme­nt continues to rise and the real number is over 17% if you consider those that fell off the unemployme­nt role without a job. Get real....th­is administra­tion has been a dismal failure on the job front. You can site Bush numbers all you want but when he was in office more Americans were working and prospering and the debt wasn't 15 trillion and growinig. The last time I checked, Bush has been out of office for over 2 years and won't be on the ballot in the next election. Who is Obama going to blame then?
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septsong
07:08 AM on 6/07/2011
oh brother ..aspire higher.. stop lowering the bar.. jobs at Mcdees and WalMart are not sustaining a family..an­d if he did so much..why are his unemployme­nt numbers at 10% truthfully­..bush never over 5%.. libbies... dumber then a box of rocks..
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