Companies hiring: Week of 9/22

JOB SEEKERS, HERE IS OUR WEEKLY LIST OF 10 COMPANIES THAT ARE HIRING NOW. CLICK ON THE COMPANY NAMES BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE.

1. ArthrexIndustry: Medical device manufacturing
Sample job titles: Senior mechanical engineer, packaging engineering technician, senior financial analyst, CNC crew coordinator, UX/UI designer
Location: Naples and Fort Myers, Fla.
2. Big 5 Sporting GoodsIndustry: Retail
Sample job titles: Manager trainee - retail, truck driver - class A, part-time salesperson and cashier, sales tax accountant, new store setup
Location: California, Texas, Colorado, Oregon
3. CDI CorporationIndustry: Staffing (IT/engineering)
Sample job titles: IT support, software developer, systems engineer
Location: Nationwide
4. Focus WorkforcesIndustry: Staffing (manufacturing and distribution)
Sample job titles: Crane operator, forklift operator, group lead/trainer, machine operator
Location: Kansas, Missouri, Utah
5. Interstate BatteriesIndustry: Retail
Sample job titles: Business intelligence manager, lead field service tech, critical power regional operations manager
Location: Nationwide
6. Mack & Associates, Ltd.Industry: Employment/recruiting/staffing
Sample job titles: Executive assistant, office administrator, marketing coordinator, public relations associate, accounts payable specialist, account manager, social media manager, real estate paralegal
Location: Chicago
7. NavistarIndustry: Automotive/motor vehicles/parts
Sample job titles: Engineering, management, IT, accounting sales, finance, manufacturing, skilled labor and trades, customer service
Location: Illinois, Oklahoma, Ohio, Georgia, Wisconsin, Alabama
8. Potpourri GroupIndustry: Retail
Sample job titles: Call center representative, Web merchandising assistant, apparel technical support assistant, associate buyer, non-CDL truck driver
Location: North Billerica and Whitinsville, Mass.; Portland, Maine
9. TranswestIndustry: Transportation
Sample job titles: Diesel mechanic, truck and trailer mechanic, parts person, service writer, parts counter person, outside sales, RV technician, assembly/installer, inventory control/purchase clerk, shop foreman, horse trailer sales
Location: Brighton, Frederick, Fountain, Denver and Commerce City, Colo.; Belton and Kansas City, Mo.
10. Trulite Glass & Aluminum SolutionsIndustry: Manufacturing
Sample job titles: Machine operator, production worker, maintenance technician, CDL A driver, safety manager, outside sales representative - manufacturing
Location: Nationwide

People With These 20 Jobs Got the Biggest Pay Raises Over the Past 12 months

Now the question is... how will you spend all of this extra cash?

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By Jacquelyn Smith

We all hope to see our paychecks grow every year, but for many, raises are few and far between — or they're so small they hardly make a difference.
In fact, the national average for salary increase is 2.2%, according to the BLS. But that's certainly not the case for everyone.
To find out who saw the biggest spikes in salary over the past 12 months, Glassdoor looked at total pay data (which includes base pay, tips, commissions, bonuses, and all other forms of pay) for people in all professions and pinpointed the 20 jobs for which people reported the most significant growth between September 2014 and September 2015.


For a job title to be eligible for the report, it had to have at least 500 salary reports shared by US-based employees on Glassdoor between September 2013 and today.

"This jobs report is helpful for anyone who may be thinking about a new job, and wants to go into a role where salary is increasing more than average," says Scott Dobroski, Glassdoor's community expert. "What's especially interesting about the results is the wide variety of jobs, showing that pay is rising across tech and healthcare jobs in particular, which isn't a big surprise, but also in retail and food services. We're likely seeing an increase there due to the minimum wage and fair wage debates continuing."


Here are the 20 jobs with the biggest pay raises over the past 12 months:

20. Software engineer

1/20

Total pay for 2015: $105,000
Total pay for 2014: $102,100
% Increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 23,859

19. Network engineer

2/20

Total pay for 2015: $87,903
Total pay for 2014: $85,360
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 3,621

18. Web developer

3/20

Total pay for 2015: $68,407
Total pay for 2014: $66,365
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 2,688

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Now the question is... how will you spend all of this extra cash? Business Insider

27 Jobs To Avoid If You Hate Stress

Stay out of the operating room if you don't handle pressure well.

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By Jacquelyn Smith

Do you crack under pressure? Crumble when you're stressed?

If so, you'd be better off pursuing a career in science or education than you would in healthcare or law enforcement.

Using data from the BLS and O*NET OnLine, career information expert Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., helped Business Insider rank the 767 occupations identified by the US Department of Labor by "stress tolerance."

The "stress tolerance" for each job is a rating on a scale from zero to 100, where a lower rating signals less stress. It measures how frequently workers must accept criticism and deal effectively with high stress on the job.

Here are 27 jobs that earned a stress tolerance rating of 93 or higher. If you're the type of person who thrives under pressure or can stay cool, calm, and collected in high-stress situations, these jobs may be perfect for you. If you're the crack-or-crumble-type, you may want to avoid them:

Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers

1/27

Stress tolerance: 98.5
Average annual salary (2014): $39,410
Photo Credit: Alamy

Nurse anesthetists

2/27

Stress tolerance: 98.2
Average annual salary (2014): $158,900
Photo Credit: Getty Images

Telephone operators

3/27

Stress tolerance: 98.2
Average annual salary (2014): $39,350
Photo Credit: Shutterstock

 

Dancers

4/27

Stress tolerance: 97.0
Average annual salary (2014): N/A
Photo Credit: Getty Images

The 20 Best Cities For Job Seekers This Fall

The best areas to start your career.

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By Jacquelyn Smith
Good news for job seekers: Employers are now the most optimistic they've been about hiring since 2007.

Employment services firm ManpowerGroup asked more than 11,000 employers in the 100 largest US metropolitan areas about their hiring plans for the three-month period ending in December and found that employers in all 50 states plan to increase their payrolls during the fourth quarter of 2015.

Of the surveyed employers, 21% expect to increase their payrolls and 6% say they'll decrease their staffing levels. This yields a net increase of 15% that plan to hire — or 18% when seasonally adjusted, which is up 2% from last quarter, and up 3% from last year at this time.

Those are the strongest predictions in eight years.
"The US labor market continues to show broad-based, stable growth, with significant milestones over time such as hiring prospects at a seven-year high, unemployment at 5.1% and weekly jobless claims recently reaching a 40-year low," said Jonas Prising, CEO of ManpowerGroup, in a press release. "But as the labor market tightens, employers are increasingly telling us they are having difficulty finding skilled candidates — a situation not helped by the low labor participation rate."

Here are the 20 best cities for job seekers this spring, ranked by the net percentage of employers in each city that plan to hire:

Richmond, Virginia

1/20

Percent planning to increase staff levels: 30
Percent planning to decrease staff levels: 7
Net: 23%

Tucson, Arizona

2/20

Percent planning to increase staff levels: 25
Percent planning to decrease staff levels: 4
Net: 21%

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California

3/20

Percent planning to increase staff levels: 24
Percent planning to decrease staff levels: 3
Net: 21%

Read more The 20 Best Cities For Job Seekers This Fall

Companies hiring: Week of 9/8

JOB SEEKERS, HERE IS OUR WEEKLY LIST OF 10 COMPANIES THAT ARE HIRING NOW. CLICK ON THE COMPANY NAMES BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE.

1. Aramark Uniform ServicesIndustry: Sales and marketing, customer service, manufacturing
Sample job titles: Account executive, route sales representative, plant manager, production manager, assistant general manager, customer service
Location: Nationwide
2. Client ServicesIndustry: Customer relationship management
Sample job titles: Customer service representative, client relationship manager
Location: Lenexa, Kan.; St. Louis
3. Federal Home Loan Bank – Des MoinesIndustry: Financial services
Sample job titles: Capital markets analyst, developer, credit risk intern, market risk intern, model risk analyst
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
4. Jordan Health ServicesIndustry: Home health
Sample job titles: Registered nurse, licensed vocational nurse, field supervisor, attendant, accounting
Locations: Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas
5. Lou Malnati'sIndustry: Restaurant/food service
Sample job titles: Area manager, restaurant manager, server, cashier, kitchen worker, delivery driver, host/hostess
Location: Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park, Lincolnwood, Bloomingdale, Bolingbrook, Buffalo Grove, Carol Stream, Downers Grove, Elk Grove, Evanston, Skokie, Geneva and Grayslake, Ill.
6. Randstad Accounting and FinanceIndustry: Accounting and finance
Sample job titles: Senior accountant, finance manager, accounts receivable clerk
Location: Nationwide
7. Swatch Group (Omega Brands)Industry: Retail
Sample job titles: Sales associate, assistant sales manager
Location: Nationwide
8. Viega, LLCIndustry: Manufacturing
Sample job titles: Territory sales, electronics technician, product manager, systems administrator, district sales manager
Location: Wichita and McPherson, Kan.; Dallas; Miami
9. VT GroupIndustry: Telecommunications, defense
Sample job titles: Telecommunications technician, telecom project manager, welder, cable installer telecom, optical LAN engineer
Location: Nationwide
10. Willowglen AcademyIndustry: Residential services
Sample job titles: Direct care staff, home health aide, registered nurse, certified nursing assistant
Location: Sparta and Sussex, N.J.

The 20 Highest-Paying Jobs You Can Do From Home

What a time to be alive.

Business Insider

By Drake Baer and Jacquelyn Smith

Thanks to technology, our overwhelming desire for better work-life balance, or a need for extra cash, freelancing is becoming the new norm in America.

As of 2014, more than 53 million Americans were doing freelance work, according to a survey conducted by the independent research firm Edelman Berland and commissioned by Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk, which recently relaunched with the name Upwork.

That's about 34% of the entire workforce.

"We've entered into a new chapter of work, in which technology has made it much easier for people to find work faster and reach beyond Industrial Era boundaries in order to create a more flexible work-life balance," says Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel.

Upwork — which serves as a broker between companies that need skills and freelancers eager to supply them — recently sifted through data to find which freelance skills yield the highest hourly wages.


Turns out freelancers with the right skills can earn a great living from the comfort of their homes. The wage numbers come from the combined databases of Elance and Upwork, and are based on the average hourly rate for each skill between January 1 and May 31, 2015.

Companies hiring in September

​Make this a September to remember when you land a new job with one of the following great companies, all of whom are looking to fill open positions this month.

Make this a September to remember when you land a new job with one of the following great companies, all of whom are looking to fill open positions this month.

1. Airgas Inc.
Industry: Chemical, manufacturing, oil and gas
Sample job titles: Route driver, tanker driver, account manager, technician, inside sales, branch manager, district manager, production operator, marketing specialist, SAP analyst, accountant
Location: California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma, Virginia, New York, Oregon, Colorado
2. Ancora Education
Industry: Education, health care, auto service
Sample job titles: Registered nursing instructor, auto service tech instructor, financial aid officer, medical assisting instructor, welding instructor, HVAC instructor
Location: Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona
3. Benihana, Inc
Industry: Restaurant/hospitality
Sample job titles: General manager, restaurant manager, kitchen manager, chef, server, host/hostess, bartender, dishwasher
Location: South Lake, Texas; Los Angeles; Nationwide
4. Big 5 Sporting Goods
Industry: Retail
Sample job titles: Manager trainee – retail, truck driver - class A, part-time salesperson and cashier, sales tax accountant, new store set-up/part-time salesperson and cashier
Location: California, Texas, Colorado, Oregon
5. Certified Payment Processing
Industry: Banking/financial services
Sample job titles: Outside sales
Location: Nationwide
6. Crown Castle
Industry: Telecom – cell tower
Sample job titles: Wireless technician, senior financial analyst, senior portfolio services specialist, senior RF engineer
Location: Nationwide
7. Express Employment Professionals
Industry: General Staffing
Sample job titles: Forklift driver, customer service representative, warehouse associate, administrative assistant
Location: Nationwide
8. First Group America
Industry: Transportation
Sample job titles: School bus driver, diesel technician, location manager
Location: Nationwide
9. FirstFleet
Industry: Transportation
Sample job titles: CDL truck driver, diesel mechanic, recruiting/safety coordinator
Location: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Florida, Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky
10. Flex-N-Gate
Industry: Automotive manufacturing
Sample job titles: Maintenance technician, project engineer, weld engineer, manufacturing engineer
Location: Urbana, Ill.; Grand Rapids, Battle Creek and Warren, Mich.
11. Global Employment Solutions / Fahrenheit IT
Industry: Staffing – food/beverage, manufacturing, operations, IT
Sample job titles: Maintenance manager, plant engineer, general manager, production supervisor
Location: Nationwide
12. Lifetouch
Industry: Photography
Sample job titles: Photographer, preschool portraits photographer, school photographer, studio manager, yearbook sales representative, production associate, candid photographer
Location: Eden Prairie and Burnsville, Minn.; Bloomington and Springfield, Ill.; Chesapeake, Va.; San Antonio; Baltimore; Chico, Calif.; Houston; Overland Park, Kan.; Bensalem, Penn.; Charlotte, N.C.; Indianapolis; St Louis
13. Rio Tinto
Industry: Mining
Sample job titles: Automation technician; senior electrical engineer; electrical supervisor; senior advisor – water management; senior advisor – global mobility; buyer; principal advisor – end user computing
Location: Nationwide
14. Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Industry: Real estate, insurance, mortgage services
Sample job titles: Sales director, legal/insurance claims representative, specialist I
Location: Tampa, Fla.; New York; Dallas; Waltham, Mass.
15. Sunstate Equipment Co.
Industry: Construction
Sample job titles: Mechanic, truck driver, branch manager, outside sales
Location: Arizona, Colorado, California, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico
16. TA Travel Centers of America
Industry: Restaurant, truck service
Sample job titles: Restaurant manager, diesel/lube technician, wireless sales, fast-food crew member
Location: Nationwide
17. TEKsystems Inc
Industry: IT
Sample job titles: .Net developer, share point developer, network engineer
Location: Nationwide
18. U-Haul International
Industry: Moving and storage
Sample job titles: General manager, roadside customer service, moonlighter customer service, claims adjuster, maintenance technician
Location: Phoenix; Los Angeles; Omaha, Neb.
19. Unidine
Industry: Food and beverage
Sample job titles: Registered dietitian, server, chef, clinical nutrition manager, sous chef, dining services director
Location: Boston; Steamboat Springs, Colo.; Redford, Mich.; Bethpage, N.Y.; Seymour, Ind.; Bel Air, Md.
20. Waste Management
Industry: Waste management/removal, recycling
Sample job titles: Outside sales representative, operations specialist, auditor, container maintenance, route manager, technician, dispatcher
Location: Houston; Elgin, Ill.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Primos, Pa.; Harrison, Mich.; Englewood, Colo.

© 2015 CareerBuilder, LLC. Original publish date: 09.01.2015

8 promising jobs for H-1B visa holders

Twenty-six percent of employers say they are hiring workers with H-1B visas this year.

As we've talked about before, there is a widening skills gap, especially for STEM occupations (science, technology, engineering and math). Employers are struggling to fill open positions for these types of roles, because they can't find job seekers with the right mix of skills.

Some employers are solving this problem by investing more in training. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 46 percent of employers have hired a low-skill worker and trained them for a higher-skill job within the last two years.

Another route employers have taken to fill high-skill roles is by hiring workers with H-1B visas, which enables them to temporarily employ foreign-born workers for specialized occupations. Twenty-six percent of employers say they are hiring workers with these visas this year, according to the survey.

What is an H-1B visa exactly?According to the website h1bvisa.org, an H-1B visa is "an employment-based visa that is issued for eligible and qualified temporary workers. This visa category enables U.S. employers the opportunity to hire foreign professionals if a U.S. citizen or resident is not available to fulfill the requirements of the job. The job must be considered a specialty occupation that requires theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields such as architecture, engineering, mathematics, science and medicine."

Jobs for workers with H-1B visas
Employers were asked which occupations they are recruiting workers with H-1B visas for this year. Below are their responses, along with the average annual pay of each occupation.

1. Software engineerPercent of employers: 19
Average annual pay*: $97,700

2. Systems analyst and programmerPercent of employers: 11
Average annual pay: $87,320

3. Database administratorPercent of employers: 9
Average annual pay: $82,280

4. Network administratorPercent of employers: 9
Average annual pay: $79,770

5. Sales and distribution managerPercent of employers: 9
Average annual pay: $126,040

6. Financial analystPercent of employers: 9
Average annual pay: $92,250

7. Electrical and electronic engineerPercent of employers: 8
Average annual pay: $95,780

8. Mechanical engineerPercent of employers: 8
Average annual pay: $87,140