The engineering professions have been hard hit by the recession; especiallyCivil Engineering. If you are an engineer seeking employment, you probably havenoticed that job postings in the classified advertisements for your professionare rare. But believe it or not there a few companies out there who are lookingfor your expertise.
Clicking through the various sites on the internet you will notice thatthere just are not the job postings there once was. In my state of Nevada it isextremely hard to find any postings, but other states like California and Texasthe postings are much better.
If we break-up the United States into the 5 basic geographic areas;Northwest, Mid-west, Northeast, Southeast and Southwest, which area would fairbetter on new job postings for Civil Engineers? In order to answer thisquestion, we decided to look at several of the main online job listing sites,and categorize the listings as follows: the number of civil engineering jobpostings, number jobs in geographical areas, and the states with the highestnumber of job postings.
A surprising result was found after analyzing several sites. The first thingthat stood out was that the number of postings was very low. States like RhodeIsland and South Dakota would consistently show zero to extremely low number oflistings. Several other States like Delaware, Kentucky, North Dakota, and WestVirginia would only show one or two listings.
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The other pattern showed that the highest number of job postings constantlywere in the southwest region. In each analysis California’s and Texas’s highjob postings carried the southwest region to the lead.
1. Southwest Region – According to the various websites,this region had the highest number of job postings. About 70% of those postingswere found in California and Texas.
2. Southeast Region – This region ran a close second tothe Southwest region’s job posting numbers. The number of job postings seemedto be a little more spread across the States in this region. Florida, Virginia,and Washington DC area typically had the highest number of postings.
3. Northeast Region – The states of New Jersey, Maryland,New York, and Pennsylvania typical had the highest job postings in this region,but Rhode Island and Vermont were usually the lowest.
4. Mid West Region – This region has the most number ofstates, and consistently showed very low job postings. On average Illinois’sand Ohio’s posting numbers were about half the regions total number ofpostings.
5. Northwest Region – This region showed the lowest numberof job postings on all of the websites we reviewed. With about 70% of the jobpostings the State of Washington had the highest number of postings in thisregion.
What does the results of this survey mean to you? The country is stilltrying to recover from the recession, and from what we can gather from ourreview many engineering companies are not hiring. The best place to look for aCivil Engineering job right now is probably California, Florida, Maryland, NewYork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas or the Washington DC area. Due to the lowjob posting numbers on the websites, obtaining employment in any other Statewould be extremely difficult.
In this article Joe Haun, PE reviews what regions of the country are postingengineeringjobs on the internet. To learn how you can easily and quickly receive yourengineering CEU’s and PDH’s through online training, visit: EngineeringContinuing Education.
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