On Tuesday, January 25 from 12pm to 5pm - job seekers can visit the Lexington Plaza Waterfront Hotel (next to the beautiful Stockton waterfront Arena and Ballpark) to find open jobs and career advice. Employers will be on hand recruiting for new employees, and there will be staff on hand helping you perfect your resume and job seeking skills.
Everyone is encourage to attend - admission is Free.
Open Stockton, CA Jobs
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Budget, Economics, Politics Will Play Role In Unemployment Numbers In Central Valley
More and more people are moving from expensive coastal towns and cities in California to the more affordable Central Valley regions - where homes and other amenities can be had at a fraction of the price of what it cost to live in the Bay Area. Just parking your car alone is hundreds in a large city.
The majority of the California State Budget is directed towards Education and Low-Income Aide ... both worthy things to spend money on. Those are where you see a majority of cuts when the gap to balance the budget is so wide. California has tried to pocket huge sums of money through Marijuana legislation - and possibly Online Poker for California residence. Both, if allowed to flourish, would bring multiple millions of dollars in tax revenue - but at a high price in terms of morality and public image.
Chances are the state is going to have to rely on the Federal Government (or your tax dollar) to continue to loan money to the State and be extremely liberal on payback of that debt. Furthermore, the state will have to rely on long term, sustainable growth that helped develop the information age we all have been enjoying for the last 20 years.
If the state can manage to stay afloat and not tax businesses, students and YOU - to the point that you would want to leave this great state ... as even the 'cheapest' parts of California are quite expensive compared to most other places in the country. Hopefully we can all make it through this together, and make California a great place to live and raise a family.
The key cities in the central valley that would benefit the most from economic recovery would be Modesto, Stockton, Tracy and the surrounding area. Stockton has sports facilities that are some of the newest in the area and have had acts like Bob Dylan and Snoop Dogg perform. There are many jobs available in Stockton - but always be prepared to compete with many other applicants for the time being.
Tracy and the outlying area is one of the most popular places to live for people that work in Livermore, San Jose, San Francisco and the Bay Area. Home prices were extremely high during the peak years, but now they are back into the levels where it makes sense for a Bay Area Family to move to Tracy ... especially larger families where cost of living is high even for 6-Figure earners. Jobs in Tracy, CA tend to be more serviced based or educational - as most of the technical jobs are in the Bay Area.
Modesto, CA is in a great location for those that work in nearby areas. The city has grown much like Stockton has over the years, however - there is still a strong agricultural presence in the area thanks to successful companies like Gallo Wines and Foster Farms. There is a 'nightlife' in Modesto that helps high margin liquor sales going all year. Bartending, waiting tables and other gratuity type jobs are always a good option. From experience, a great place to work is Del Rio Country Club in North Modesto. Stop by and put in your application - they have many positions that come available during the year. For more, try this list of jobs in Modesto California.
There will be financial and political gridlock in California over the next few years, however if the people keep doing there best to survive - the best days are coming for California residences, especially the unemployed.
The majority of the California State Budget is directed towards Education and Low-Income Aide ... both worthy things to spend money on. Those are where you see a majority of cuts when the gap to balance the budget is so wide. California has tried to pocket huge sums of money through Marijuana legislation - and possibly Online Poker for California residence. Both, if allowed to flourish, would bring multiple millions of dollars in tax revenue - but at a high price in terms of morality and public image.
Chances are the state is going to have to rely on the Federal Government (or your tax dollar) to continue to loan money to the State and be extremely liberal on payback of that debt. Furthermore, the state will have to rely on long term, sustainable growth that helped develop the information age we all have been enjoying for the last 20 years.
If the state can manage to stay afloat and not tax businesses, students and YOU - to the point that you would want to leave this great state ... as even the 'cheapest' parts of California are quite expensive compared to most other places in the country. Hopefully we can all make it through this together, and make California a great place to live and raise a family.
The key cities in the central valley that would benefit the most from economic recovery would be Modesto, Stockton, Tracy and the surrounding area. Stockton has sports facilities that are some of the newest in the area and have had acts like Bob Dylan and Snoop Dogg perform. There are many jobs available in Stockton - but always be prepared to compete with many other applicants for the time being.
Tracy and the outlying area is one of the most popular places to live for people that work in Livermore, San Jose, San Francisco and the Bay Area. Home prices were extremely high during the peak years, but now they are back into the levels where it makes sense for a Bay Area Family to move to Tracy ... especially larger families where cost of living is high even for 6-Figure earners. Jobs in Tracy, CA tend to be more serviced based or educational - as most of the technical jobs are in the Bay Area.
Modesto, CA is in a great location for those that work in nearby areas. The city has grown much like Stockton has over the years, however - there is still a strong agricultural presence in the area thanks to successful companies like Gallo Wines and Foster Farms. There is a 'nightlife' in Modesto that helps high margin liquor sales going all year. Bartending, waiting tables and other gratuity type jobs are always a good option. From experience, a great place to work is Del Rio Country Club in North Modesto. Stop by and put in your application - they have many positions that come available during the year. For more, try this list of jobs in Modesto California.
There will be financial and political gridlock in California over the next few years, however if the people keep doing there best to survive - the best days are coming for California residences, especially the unemployed.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
San Francisco Giants World Series Win = Bay Area Jobs
The Giants took Major League Baseball by storm during the 2010 Playoffs to win its first championship since moving to the city of San Francisco. The Giants have always drawn large crowds to their beautiful ball park which opened in 2000.
This season will probably be one of the most anticipated seasons in team history. That usually means brisk ticket sales from the start of the season - meaning lots of sell-out games next year. On the surface, this obviously means jobs within the organization selling tickets, serving sodas and hot-dogs during games and other jobs. However, the surrounding restaurants and shopping destinations will have even more foot traffic coming through the city next season for each game.
Look for more jobs to open up near the stadium as next season comes around. Thanks to the Giants - the city of San Francisco has an MLB Championship and more jobs.
San Francisco Open Hiring Jobs List
This season will probably be one of the most anticipated seasons in team history. That usually means brisk ticket sales from the start of the season - meaning lots of sell-out games next year. On the surface, this obviously means jobs within the organization selling tickets, serving sodas and hot-dogs during games and other jobs. However, the surrounding restaurants and shopping destinations will have even more foot traffic coming through the city next season for each game.
Look for more jobs to open up near the stadium as next season comes around. Thanks to the Giants - the city of San Francisco has an MLB Championship and more jobs.
San Francisco Open Hiring Jobs List
Friday, October 8, 2010
Real Estate Jobs Still A Good Option For Valley Job Hunters
Flashback 4 or 5 years ago and the Real Estate business was flourishing in the valley. Not only was selling homes profitable commissions - contracting, construction, furniture, and insurance were other industries that benefited from lots of homes trading hands.
Then it all seemed to come to an end.
Barring any outside forces, it appears as if the home market in the Central Valley has reached its lows. We are now seeing Real Estate agents and related businesses hiring more employees to handle some of the increasing demand. The industry is now less desirable than it was in years past, making it easier to find a position compared to hotter job trends. Competition to sell homes is still high and fierce - but a good agent should be able to make money in any environment.
PMZ Real Estate, among others, regularly hire in the Central Valley - often referred to as the 'Foreclosure Capitol of the World'
Places Hiring in Stockton CA
Places Hiring in Modesto CA
Places Hiring in Lodi CA
Places Hiring in Turlock CA
Places Hiring in Tracy CA
Then it all seemed to come to an end.
Barring any outside forces, it appears as if the home market in the Central Valley has reached its lows. We are now seeing Real Estate agents and related businesses hiring more employees to handle some of the increasing demand. The industry is now less desirable than it was in years past, making it easier to find a position compared to hotter job trends. Competition to sell homes is still high and fierce - but a good agent should be able to make money in any environment.
PMZ Real Estate, among others, regularly hire in the Central Valley - often referred to as the 'Foreclosure Capitol of the World'
Places Hiring in Stockton CA
Places Hiring in Modesto CA
Places Hiring in Lodi CA
Places Hiring in Turlock CA
Places Hiring in Tracy CA
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Holiday Retail Jobs Opening Up In Modesto, CA
Modesto, CA is a growing city in the heart of the central valley. This once bustling farm town is now a commercial empire for the Mall and other retail outlets in the area. This makes for plenty of customer service, store manager, cashier and other positions available in the area during the holiday shopping season.
Companies looking to hire as of today include: Aeropostale, Ross Stores, Sears, RadioShack, and many more. Find the full list of jobs at 209 Valley Jobs: Open Jobs In Modesto CA
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Many New Job Openings in Merced, CA
Home of one of the newest UC Campuses - Merced, California is starting to grow due to the large university that brings in students almost year round. If you don't have the qualifications to be a professor or teacher on campus - remember there are a wide variety of jobs available on College and University campuses. Many of these have excellent pay and benefits.
The local economy will certainly continue to grow as the UC brings in more students - and that means lots of job openings in the area. At last count there were over 200 available jobs in Merced, CA
That's quite high for a Valley city.
Stay on the lookout for seasonal jobs at retailers who will be hiring for the November/December holiday shopping rush.
The local economy will certainly continue to grow as the UC brings in more students - and that means lots of job openings in the area. At last count there were over 200 available jobs in Merced, CA
That's quite high for a Valley city.
Stay on the lookout for seasonal jobs at retailers who will be hiring for the November/December holiday shopping rush.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Wall Street Earning Trends - May Lead To More Jobs
Investing in the stock market is probably one of the smartest things someone can do with money. Sure you can get burned by the occasional dip in the market that will happen after large run-ups due to economic factors such as the internet being born and home prices sky-rocketing. However, its not like people didn't loose jobs and careers at these companies either during the same time period.
The stock market has more to do with employment than most people think ... especially if you work for a public company. What was the first thing many companies did when 'numbers started looking bad' in 2008/09? They fired people...or 'reduced headcount' as the CEO's like to say. The #1 goal of a public company is to make money for its shareholders - not have happy employees - so remember that the next time your boss tells you how much they care about you. You might think that the big boy CEO can't be fired - but if enough shareholders make noise - he'll be gone faster than he's out of the office everyday to catch his noon tee-time at the country club.
The thing is - every good businessman (or woman) knows you need great employees to make a huge profit and grow as a company. In late 2008 and 2009 it was all about firing people so that the company expenses went way down to be in line with the lower consumer demand - who were paying $4.75 a gallon for gas. Now consumers are starting to show signs of life and companies are starting to see sales growth over last year.
So what's the problem?
You can't grow a company with a limited staff. Which is exactly the challenge CEO's and small-business leaders are facing now. If you take a look at earnings from major companies ... cutting out all the GAAP and non-GAAP stuff .... you generally see that profits (dollars you take home) are up - but revenues (dollars that come in the door) are flat or sometimes down. Why is that? For the most part, I would suggest that they don't have the staff capable of growing the revenues much further than where they already are. (Which is a CEO's Death Sentence)
Since most companies went on a cost-cutting trip about a year ago, its not like they can just trim more cost to make the profits grow. They are going to have to attract new business by expanding the work force to handle demand - which also should continue to increase off lows. Its not like its going to be a big hiring party all at once...as most bosses do have regular matches at the golf club to attend to :) But its funny how these 'leaders of business' will copy each other when one of them makes a move. Trust me, if Google has a Press Release about hiring 200 new employees... you can expect the folks over at Yahoo/Microsoft will be doing the same a few months later. Its not like the major shareholders will call the competing company or anything and ask them how they will respond to the new jobs....(they will)
The moral of the story? The natural business cycle took us to highs higher that high in the 2000's ... its okay to take a breather for a while. In fact, its a natural and healthy thing for an economy to go through a downturn. In many ways it helps business and employers learn new training and practices that help employees in the long term. Obviously its not cool if you're going through it trying to find a job and struggling to pay bills, but know that it will turn around one day. Give Wall Street another quarter of flat revenue with meager profits and the big guns with multi-millions of shares (let alone dollars invested) will be looking for answers. The big institutional investors were your worst nightmare when times were tough - because they were the ones putting the pressure on CEO's to cut costs in wake of the recession. Now, these guys are your best friend ... seriously. They will be calling they guys everyday looking for growth over the previous quarter, and the CEO's know that they don't have the staff to grow the company. They know it. Its truly impossible, because even if they have an influx of orders or business - they don't have the staff available to handle all those requests.
Bottom line is that Wall Street companies will start hiring soon. Probably starting as soon as January 2011. I'm not talking about the cashier at the local Wal-Mart during Christmas (although an important job - not the type of hiring I'm talking about) We're talking the Google's, HP's, Yahoo's, eBay's and other huge California public companies starting to hire aggressively for high paying talent. Those are the jobs that move Wall Street and unemployment numbers - because they trickle down to give the guy at the corner market a job too. Even if you don't have the skills for those jobs, when they become available - it will mean lower skill jobs are on the way. Companies don't grow paying a guy 10 bucks an hour - you make money by hiring college grads that know what the next generation is going to buy. Future employees are waiting.
The stock market has more to do with employment than most people think ... especially if you work for a public company. What was the first thing many companies did when 'numbers started looking bad' in 2008/09? They fired people...or 'reduced headcount' as the CEO's like to say. The #1 goal of a public company is to make money for its shareholders - not have happy employees - so remember that the next time your boss tells you how much they care about you. You might think that the big boy CEO can't be fired - but if enough shareholders make noise - he'll be gone faster than he's out of the office everyday to catch his noon tee-time at the country club.
The thing is - every good businessman (or woman) knows you need great employees to make a huge profit and grow as a company. In late 2008 and 2009 it was all about firing people so that the company expenses went way down to be in line with the lower consumer demand - who were paying $4.75 a gallon for gas. Now consumers are starting to show signs of life and companies are starting to see sales growth over last year.
So what's the problem?
You can't grow a company with a limited staff. Which is exactly the challenge CEO's and small-business leaders are facing now. If you take a look at earnings from major companies ... cutting out all the GAAP and non-GAAP stuff .... you generally see that profits (dollars you take home) are up - but revenues (dollars that come in the door) are flat or sometimes down. Why is that? For the most part, I would suggest that they don't have the staff capable of growing the revenues much further than where they already are. (Which is a CEO's Death Sentence)
Since most companies went on a cost-cutting trip about a year ago, its not like they can just trim more cost to make the profits grow. They are going to have to attract new business by expanding the work force to handle demand - which also should continue to increase off lows. Its not like its going to be a big hiring party all at once...as most bosses do have regular matches at the golf club to attend to :) But its funny how these 'leaders of business' will copy each other when one of them makes a move. Trust me, if Google has a Press Release about hiring 200 new employees... you can expect the folks over at Yahoo/Microsoft will be doing the same a few months later. Its not like the major shareholders will call the competing company or anything and ask them how they will respond to the new jobs....(they will)
The moral of the story? The natural business cycle took us to highs higher that high in the 2000's ... its okay to take a breather for a while. In fact, its a natural and healthy thing for an economy to go through a downturn. In many ways it helps business and employers learn new training and practices that help employees in the long term. Obviously its not cool if you're going through it trying to find a job and struggling to pay bills, but know that it will turn around one day. Give Wall Street another quarter of flat revenue with meager profits and the big guns with multi-millions of shares (let alone dollars invested) will be looking for answers. The big institutional investors were your worst nightmare when times were tough - because they were the ones putting the pressure on CEO's to cut costs in wake of the recession. Now, these guys are your best friend ... seriously. They will be calling they guys everyday looking for growth over the previous quarter, and the CEO's know that they don't have the staff to grow the company. They know it. Its truly impossible, because even if they have an influx of orders or business - they don't have the staff available to handle all those requests.
Bottom line is that Wall Street companies will start hiring soon. Probably starting as soon as January 2011. I'm not talking about the cashier at the local Wal-Mart during Christmas (although an important job - not the type of hiring I'm talking about) We're talking the Google's, HP's, Yahoo's, eBay's and other huge California public companies starting to hire aggressively for high paying talent. Those are the jobs that move Wall Street and unemployment numbers - because they trickle down to give the guy at the corner market a job too. Even if you don't have the skills for those jobs, when they become available - it will mean lower skill jobs are on the way. Companies don't grow paying a guy 10 bucks an hour - you make money by hiring college grads that know what the next generation is going to buy. Future employees are waiting.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
