Financial Services & Recruiting academyrecruiting on 29 Aug 2008 12:00 pm
Some U.S. cities have actually added jobs this year
Here’s another story in the “things you don’t see on the networks or major news services” category - it’s in today’s Ft Worth Star-Telegram:
DFW-Arlington area adds 68,000 jobs in the last year, the most in the U.S.
By JOHN AUSTIN
jaustin@star-telegram.comFORT WORTH – We’re No. 1, at least when it comes to job growth.
That’s the news from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which beamed a little economic sunshine into the local forecast this week by announcing that the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area led the nation with 68,000 new nonfarm jobs over the past 12 months.
Jobs in the D-FW-Arlington area grew 2.3 percent in July compared with the same month last year. Houston and San Antonio grew 2.2 percent each.
What? I’m shocked…there are major metropolitan areas in the U.S. that have actually added jobs in the last year? Yep.
I’ve said this before and will keep saying it again and again…
Whatever you do, do NOT get caught up in the daily gloom-and-doom, “the economy sucks”, recession, etc., talk. No question, some people are being laid off, losing jobs, and running into some tough times - I don’t pretend that those things are not happening nor do I mean to trivialize the impact they have had on those affected. But there are also many companies still hiring and many unfilled positions out there for which we are currently recruiting.
More specifically, if you have a sincere desire to be a financial advisor, and you have the right background and abilities, you can become a financial advisor with a great firm. Period.
