Topic: Job Growth

The Infrastructure-Manufacturing Connection

In my recent book 200 Best Jobs for Renewing America, I describe six large fields whose growth will be essential for the United States to remain competitive in the world economy. These fields are education, infrastructure, health ...READ»

Fuzzy (Jobs) Math

This bit from Bethany McLean's Street Life column yesterday was just too good not to pluck out for the FC blog: "Do you believe the job statistics? Texas Hedge Report, one of my favorite publications, writes that they believe those ...READ»

Top Jobs of 2008

What are the top jobs for 2008? FastCompany.com crunched the numbers, spoke to the experts, and came up with the job outlook for 2008 and beyond.READ»

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Great Opportunities in a Shrinking Industry Sector

Yesterday it was announced that Fisker Automotive, a company based in Irvine, California, will buy and retool a former GM assembly plant in Wilmington, Delaware, with the goal of manufacturing plug-in hybrid cars. The purchase of ...READ»

The 25 Top Jobs for 2005-2009

What are the best jobs to pursue for the next five years? Fast Company draws on the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and an innovation expert to tap the top jobs.READ»

The Status of the Stimulus Plan

I was supposed to be a guest on the Today Show earlier this week to speak about job-hunting, specifically the effects on jobs of the stimulus package--the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. But I had to bow out because ...READ»

It’s the Digital Economy, Stupid

While a variety of reasons exist for why President Clinton defeated President Bush, Sr. in 1992, a primary reason was his focus on the economy.  We saw a replay of this scenario in 2008 with President-elect Obama defeating his rival, ...READ»

Sustainable Job Employment Solutions For USA

By James Rickman, November 8, 2009 This article contains practical job solutions for Americans. So far much of the national focus has been on getting employers to hire i.e. add jobs instead given the global economic stagnation it’s much more realistic and effective to enable unemployed individuals to "create" their own jobs by fostering small business entrepreneurship. There’s a measurable, huge difference between the two approaches. It’s the key to achieving sustainable economic recovery in America. READ»

India - The Super Job Creator

A recent study shows that India is by far the highest new jobs creator in the world. It may be celebration time for Indians, but is this also the right time to reflect on aspects that could bring the party crashing down? Well, ...READ»

60 Seconds With Jed Emerson

Someday, we may look back and wonder, What if we didn't judge business on financial performance alone? Emerson wonders that today.READ»

Everything You Need to Know About the Stimulus Is Online

If you listen to the news, you'd think that President Obama's $819 billion stimulus package was drawn up in watercolor. What will get funded? Which states will get money? What are the parameters? A new website launched this week ...READ»

Job Fields That Could Benefit from the Stimulus Plan

The U.S. stimulus plan means good news for six broad categories of jobs.READ»

Offshoring and Insourcing

In my book about recession-proof jobs, one of the criteria I used in selecting the recession-proof jobs was that they not be on the list of occupations that the U.S. Department of Labor considers vulnerable to offshoring. I can’t ...READ»

Is Offshoring Good?

The head of an Indian consulting firm and a high-tech-union president face off on the effects of offshoring and globalization.READ»

Top Jobs 2006

The best jobs to pursue today? Fast Company again draws on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compile a list of 25 great careers for the years ahead.READ»

Offshore Storm II

Practically everyone in business is talking about offshoring. Fast Company is. CFO is. CNN is. Fortune is. And now, Tom Peters is. While his roundup of 17 observations about offshoring aren't that new or different, one nugget did ...READ»

Offshore Storm III

FC Now reader Tom Asacker makes an interesting remark in response to an entry yesterday. Who says it's primarily large multinationals outsourcing work overseas? In 1993 I outsourced the production of a $100k tool for an injection ...READ»

Boom Town, Soon Town

Another interesting comparative read is Business 2.0's March feature on the next boom towns (access code: B2MAR3140) -- "America's 20 hottest job markets" -- and Inc.'s March feature on the top 25 cities for doing business in ...READ»

Green Economy Produces Jobs - But How Many?

It makes perfect sense that overhauling our economy to fight climate change will inevitably produce jobs. After all, someone has to manufacture, produce, sell, and maintain all those turbines, solar panels, electric cars, and fuel ...READ»

The Latest in Office Furniture

From Britain comes the story of a new ordinance which will not allow workers at the Health and Safety Office to move their own furniture, even if only to rearrange it slightly for a staff meeting. Employees must contact ...READ»

Innovation: What You Can Learn from Kalamazoo

Welcome again to Innovation Wednesday here at FC, the day we focus on the inventive, the original, the daring, the super creative - even more than usual. Sure, we'd all like to be innovative 24-7 (yes, even in our dreams), but ...READ»

Is Offshoring Good? [Full-text]

The head of an Indian consulting firm and a high-tech-union president face off on the effects of offshoring and globalization.READ»

Green Machine

Gunter Pauli's radical eco-factories completely eliminate pollution. They also rewrite the rules for growth, productivity, and profit.READ»

Can Wind Power a Rural Renaissance?

Jon Bergstrom, a cotton and hay farmer in Sweetwater, Texas (population 10,472), looks outside his window every day and feels grateful. The giant white towers spinning on the near horizon have everything to do with it. Sweetwater is ...READ»

Careers: Job Listings - A Sign of the Times

The exodus of job listings from print to online highlights an inexorable trend that bodes well for job seekers and employers but is moving newspapers to the endangered species list. Searching for jobs, rather than browsing them, is ...READ»