NJ Employment Statistics: Health Care and Education are lone bright spots

Here is a link to the latest NJ employment statistics.

3,600 jobs were added in Education and Health Care. On Friday, April 3rd at 10am, the Monmouth County Library will present information on Careers in Health Care and Social Assistance. A similar program on finding information about careers in education will be held at 10am on Friday April 24th also at the Eastern Branch Library on Route 35 in Shrewsbury. These programs rely on information from the Bureau of Labor Statistic's Career Guide to Industries , the Occupational Outlook Handbook and Local Area Business Dynamics from the US Department of Census

Program: Careers in Health Care and Social Assistance, April 3

Career Information Center Program on April 3rd at 10am is on Careers in the Health Care and Social Assistance Industries. These are growing industries in New Jersey...even during the current recession. This program will explain how to find job titles, descriptions and training. Data will include info on the growth rates of individual occupations within these fields. Salary ranges, licensing requirements if applicable. Friday April 3rd . 10am. Most data is from the Career Guide To Industries chapters on Health Care and Social Assistance Except Child Day Care.

Occupational Employment Projections NJ

The NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development has a wonderful website at http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/index.shtml. This site includes information links for employment, social services, job-hunting...you name it. I use the employment projections a lot. I find the most useful chart is "Estimated and Projected Employment of Detailed Occupation 2006-2016" Notice in the "average annual job openings" how many of the openings are caused by replacements. In other words, the employment does not have to growing for jobs openings to exist.