11 Best Cities To Find A Job: Juju's Index (PHOTOS)

If you're hunting for a new gig, and the phrase "willing to relocate" is included somewhere in your resume, keep in mind that some cities are much easier to find a job in than others.

A job applicant in San Jose, for instance, competes with 8 fewer unemployed people for a job advertised online than an applicant in Miami, according to Juju, a leading online job search engine that scours thousands of employer career portals, recruiter websites, and online job boards.

Juju recently calculated the number of unemployed workers in 50 major cities, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), with the number of jobs advertised in each city on Juju's index of millions of jobs. They ranked the top 50 in their "Job Search Difficulty Index" according to this metric.

In terms of sheer numbers, the following cities are, according to Juju's index, some of the best cities to look for a job:

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11. Denver, Colorado

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2.63 unemployed persons per advertised job. Denver unemployment rate: 8.4 percent.

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2.63 unemployed persons per advertised job.

Denver unemployment rate: 8.4 percent.

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ForObamaInDallas said on 13 Friday 2010 pm31 3:12 pm: San Antonio does not have the religious fanatics you think it has. Dallas, on the other hand, does. "Churchin'" is BIG business here. There are so many mega churches here that if we were to start taxing churches some of the cities around here wouldn't have to lay off their police forces. =/

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[Dolores Jones]

01:13 PM on 09/09/2010

It is disgraceful that these mega churches are tax exempt. The ministers have private jets. They drive very expensive cars or they are chauffeured. They wear taylored clothing that cost thousands of dollars. They live in multi million dollar homes. Depending on their belief they are judgmental. I hope people wake up and smell the coffee. Why keep giving. This is not about tithing. This is about making them rich. If all the ordinary folks who support them have to pay taxes why shouldn't they.

[Progress08]

10:44 AM on 09/01/2010

Nothing in the midwest.

[Hasam]

11:04 AM on 08/30/2010

Houston TX should be in that list, oil and gas jobs are everywhere!

[NOLA2]

10:52 AM on 08/30/2010

San Jose?? Unless you are an extremely highly-skilled tech worker, don't bet on this. The Bay Area has probably close to a real 18% unemployment rate if you factor in those that have just stopped looking for work at this time.

[Progress08]

10:40 AM on 09/01/2010

I'm guessing San Antonio's jobs are mostly minimum wage stuff and service industry. Everything there mostly supports military.

[skye eg]

12:37 PM on 08/26/2010

San Jose is part of the San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Area. Individual municipalities are not stand-alone economic units. This list is flawed.

[Amalek]

02:26 AM on 08/26/2010

All the good places are blue. Never live in a red place.

[thewho77]

11:50 AM on 09/05/2010

Oklahoma City and San Antonio are Red Cities

[Amalek]

02:25 AM on 08/26/2010

They left off the best places for an American to get a job: Beijing and Shanghai.

[Progress08]

10:42 AM on 09/01/2010

Ha. They should build a ratio that shows where a corporations CEO would be surrounded the largest number of their employees. For GM it would probably be mexico and Chrysler would be Beijing.

[PaiaGirl]

07:16 PM on 08/25/2010

Yeah, but a lot of those cities (NY, San Jose, etc) have such an astronomical cost of living, hard to survive until you GET that job.

[thewho77]

11:51 AM on 09/05/2010

live in your car until you get a job.

[thewho77]

12:37 AM on 08/25/2010

Oklahoma City Transmission in GM car plant photo. That car plant shut down 3 years ago. I've lived in Oklahoma City for 15 years. The UAW local was 1999.

[Dawn Albright]

08:46 PM on 08/22/2010

I would happily move from Austin to Boston.

[advancingthelaw]

05:09 PM on 08/18/2010

Boy, your example about San Jose, California is as off the mark as it could possibly be.

California has an unemployment rate, according to a very skewed government, of 12.5 %. San Jose has thousands of unemployed people, laid off from manufacturing. It is a ghost land. Take a tour of the once active semi conductor business, in a god forsaken area of San Jose, the industrial area - the buildings are vacant and have been for years.

When doing journalism, please shoot for accuracy.

[Debbie McPherson]

05:04 PM on 08/17/2010

These kinds of reports are just plain bogus.
unemployed people in everyone of these cities will tell you that no matter how you massage these statistics the truth is the job situation is just plain grim everywhere.
Texas always likes to boast that it is in better shape - the pay scale in Texas is so low that college grads withe experience are lucky to earn $25 - $28K, everything else is $8 - $10.00/hrly
so there may be a few more jobs but they are going to be at starvation pay scales.
Texans are always so proud of "cool, hip, liberal' Austin, but that is just compared to other cities in TEXAS - not compared to the East or West Coast which is far ahead. Austin, like all of Texas still exists in a 1960-ish time warp.

[Hasam]

11:05 AM on 08/30/2010

Most of my college friends in TX stared in the upper 50's..

[MrBadExample]

06:02 PM on 08/15/2010

If NYC is a 'best' city, I'd hate to be in a worst one. There's some hiring going on, but the bulk of it requires cookie-cutter fits to the employer's specs. It used to be that a decent tech with a background in 80% of your business software could get a friendly interview--now, they're screened out before they get the second call. there are also lots of 'phantom' positions that are interviewed for but never materialize because the company is ostensibly waiting for 'things to get better'. There's also a freeze in hiring in most legal and corporate firms. Financial companies are doing well, but they aren't hiring people who aren't familiar with their industry.

And again, this is raw numbers of unemployed vs advertised positions--are the positions real? are the positions difficult to fill (possibly because the position has already been filled by an H1B)? There's been a government position on my jobs board that's been open for at least six months without being filled. Is there really a job there, or is something else going on?

[way2muchsense]

12:06 PM on 08/16/2010

And don't forget about New York's ridiculous cost of living. You need at least $100K/yr.just to be somewhat comfortable.

[flashblitzen]

08:55 AM on 08/15/2010

Maybe if we all flock to these cities like some kind of gold rush, our countrie's problems will all be solved.

When I'm not traveling the mid west as a rain maker / medicine man, I like to sell hope to people about creating jobs repairing our sewer infrastructure or sell fear that the stock market will crash in September so let me put your money somewhere safe like my pocket.

[Chicagowill]

10:36 PM on 08/16/2010

You can only move to these places if you do not owe more money on your house than it's worth. Otherwise, you're stuck.

[flashblitzen]

09:23 AM on 08/17/2010

Buzz kill. ( Plays losing Price is Right music )

[twistedboomer]

04:02 PM on 08/14/2010

san jose is a place of GREAT opportunity for gainful employment IF you have the skill base required for hi-tech (eg the computer biz). Otherwise, forget it.

Another thing to remember: 200k income per year per household is middle-class in the Bay Area.

[skymuffin]

01:47 PM on 08/15/2010

You can get a nice fixer-upper for a half mil.

[advancingthelaw]

05:10 PM on 08/18/2010

Not really. Skilled workers everywhere remain unemployed.

High tech has off shored all of its engineering and development to China and elsewhere, along with manufacturing.