Tulsa Job Market Ranks 4th In Latest Manpower Survey
Tuesday September 12, 2006 5:06pm Reporter: Bill Mitchell Posted By: Kevin King
Tulsa - There is good news for Tulsa's job market. The city's job growth is among the best in the nation. In fact, a new study ranks Tulsa fourth in the country. NewsChannel 8's Bill Mitchell shows us why the job growth here is the best in more than a decade.
Right now, if you're looking for a job in the Tulsa area and you have some job skills, you can find one. Good workers are in high demand. The Gardener Denver company is looking hard for a handful of good machinists. Right now, they need about five new machinists and so far have been unsuccessful in filling the jobs.
"We have tried radio, val-pac, we tried the newspaper, various ways of advertising," says Donna Daggs.
That company isn't alone in the hunt for workers. Fifty-seven percent of the companies interviewed in the latest Manpower survey say they want to add jobs and are aggressively looking for new workers.
"We're talking about craftsmen in the industrial trades," says Tulsa Manpower Manager Mike Arndt. "We've seen that in welding, machinists. You're seeing it in professional trades, engineers, systems analysts. You're seeing it in entry level jobs."
Arndt says that means new job opportunities for a variety of people. The job growth according to Manpower has been moving up for the past year. The current job growth is the strongest in a decade.
So, if someone offers you a job in another town, you might want to think about it twice. Because workers in this community are in high demand.
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But what about white collar jobs? I don't mean to poke fun of the hard workin' man, but nobody wants blue collar jobs, and people won't move to Tulsa to get them a good blue collar job. I'm sure there are numerous good white collar positions needing filling, i.e., IBM, Capital One, etc, etc...
Good news on the whole.