3 months ago
By Dana Simmons-Greco
Several of my friends are job-hunting at the moment, either because they just completed graduate school or they were laid off. It's a tough market, and there's a lot of competition out there with the unemployment rate at 10.2%. I thought New York City would be one of the most difficult places to find a job, but a new study from job search Web site juju.com says the New York Metro area is one of the least competitive cities for job seekers. The search engine's latest "Job Search Difficulty Rankings" report ranks New York City in the top 5. The Web site calculated the rankings by using unemployment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and comparing them to the number of jobs found in Juju.com's index of all online jobs in the United States.
There are some cities with even less competition though. If you're looking for a job, our nation's capital could be the place for you. The report ranks Washington D.C. as the metro area with the least job competition in the country. Second on the list is Baltimore. These two cities don't just have any old jobs though. Many of the jobs available require special training, as both of those areas are rich in government and defense jobs, which are in high demand right now. The last place you want to look for a job now is Detroit. The Motor City came in at the bottom of the list, mostly because of the struggling auto industry.
I know my friends that are looking for jobs in New York City have been looking for quite some time, and in some cases more than 6 months. That is a long time to be without work, especially if there's supposedly not as much competition in this city. I can't even imagine how long people in Detroit will be looking for jobs.
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