NBC News Channel 13 Albany WNYT
Employees pound away at the keyboard at Transfinder in Schenectady, developing map drawing software for bus companies. And Transfinder, can’t find enough of these people.
“The biggest challenge to us is not that we’re hiring for a tech job, it’s not that we’re trying to fill a single application develop position, but we’re looking to fill multiple positions,” said Joe Messia, COO of Transfinder.
Charleston Gazette-Mail
Health care sector jobs in West Virginia are expected to increase during the next two years, and will continue to see modest growth through 2020, according to a report published by the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics. In its annual “Economic Outlook” report, which tracks economic trends across the state’s business sectors, WVU outlined the predicted growth for health care jobs in the state.
Capitol Ideas, Council of State Governments
While state policymakers often wring their hands over health care spending and how it may squeeze out other policy priorities, the flipside of that spending is jobs—lots of them and more to come in the future. In 2012, the 17 million health care and social assistance jobs made up 14.6 percent of all services producing jobs in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
