Lowest Unemployment in Professional Fields

December 13th, 2008 by Susan P. Joyce

According to a recent Business Week article, based on U.S. Department of Labor data, the occupations with the lowest unemployment right now are:

Current
  Rate      Occupation

  3.0%      Professional and related occupations
  3.7%      Managment, business, and financial operations
  6.7%      Sales and related occuptations
  9.0%      Transportation and material moving occupations
  9.4%      Production occupations
12.1%     Construction and extraction occupations

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2 Comments to “Lowest Unemployment in Professional Fields”

  1. david says:

    About.com just reported that employers and recruiters use these 3 job sites most to find quality candidates.

    http://www.linkedin.com (professional networking)
    http://www.careerbuilder.com (keyword job search)
    http://www.realmatch.com (matches you to jobs)

    Whole Top 10 list here:
    http://jobsearch.about.com/od/joblistings/tp/jobbanks.htm

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