12 Best Cities To Find A Job: Juju.com's November Index (PHOTOS)

How open-minded are you in your job search? With unemployment rate still hovering at 9.6 percent, you may want to put "willing to relocate" in bold on your resume. Even unexpected cities like Milwaukee and Baltimore present some of the best ratios of unemployed workers to the number of open jobs.

Job search engine Juju.com, compiled of thousands of job openings from online job boards and postings, recently released the November "Job Search Difficulty Index." The monthly report considered populations of major cities and divided the number of unemployed workers, reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the number of job postings in Juju's job index.

As a result of the site's calculations, below are the some of the best cities to find a job right now:

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[MikeyJaii]

01:49 AM on 12/30/2010

N.Y.C is not hiring, as much as I can see. No jobs are available.

[Jodi Veritas]

04:32 PM on 12/29/2010

I wouldn't mind relocating to San Jose! Not just for work, but for the weather :)

[tssent]

06:49 PM on 12/20/2010

To JOSHUA EATON
Who posted his very bad look seeking employment:
~~~~~~~~~

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Joshua,

I would strongly encourage anyone without a job to build
a website.  They don't start making money immediately,
but you can definitely make enough money from them
to keep the rent and basic bills paid -- which is a lot.

I totally gambled 10 years ago, quit a decent job and
started working on a website.  Fortunately, it took off
(a site on how to quit smoking).  This led to another
couple of sites and finally started making enough to
live comfortably.

There are huge "earnings" you don't see in owning
a website, such as , you don't commute, you don't
buy new tires often, you don't buy much gasoline,
you don't need a wardrobe ("boxer" job, work in your
briefs if you want).

And I'm not talking about jobs, either.  It's not what
you sell on the Internet but how you sell it.  You can
Google "peanut brittle," right now and probably find
400 pages (10 listings each) that sell it.  All 400 are
making it because we are 6.7 billion now and you
WILL get stumbled upon.

Word of mouth does most of the rest.  If you run a
professional site, easy to navigate, no hype, straight
and to the point, choose the right colors (tangerine,
yellows and mango colors for foods and eats, like
McDonalds and other fast foods use); if you're willing
to good the psychology of colors and learn what colors
are best for the thing you want to sell;  if you make
certain you post meticulously perfect copy (no grammos
or typos); if you change out main page with new "stuff"
every 6 months; if you offer a no-questions refund and
especially a newsletter that gives you permission to
contact your visitors every month or so to remind them
you're still selling the best peanut brittle in the land,
you will eventually develop a clientele.

[tssent]

06:49 PM on 12/20/2010

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Something like 70% of what you buy is purchased
from the same entities:  where you fill up on gas,
where you get your beer, where you buy groceries,
etc.  People come to trust your inventory and sales
policies and come back.  You only need 70% of them
to make that first purchase.

Keep your day job (hope you can get one), but start
building a web site ever so slowly and letting it grow.
There's lots of learn.  It takes about 2-3 years before
it really takes off.

Rule #1:  Research, research, research.  Never stop
reading about your competitors.  How they got to page
1 is by researching, non-stop.  I put in about 6 hours
a night (after my 8-hr daytime job).  But I got there.
You can too!  Hope this inspires.

We should ALL be working from home; at least, as many
of us as possible.  Just think of how much fuel we'd save
and how quickly the atmosphere would clean up.  Just
imagine how many lees collisions and therefore how many
less hospital patients/EMS vehicles there would be.  In
fact, imagine how many less miles of freeway, water lines,
electric lines, etc., if we were all (or most of us) working
from home.

Imagine the enormous change in the "family" situation
by having at least one parent at home all the time.  Etc.
Etc.

Here's hoping you'll give it a try.

[tssent]

06:54 PM on 12/20/2010

(ps........I see my own many grammos/typos, but rushing to
launch new videos tonight; just couldn't resist stopping
long enough to reach out with helpful suggestions).

[Joshua Eaton]

04:29 PM on 12/18/2010

I speak two languages and read one more, have job experience in three separate fields, and hold a masters degree from Harvard University. In the last six months I've applied to over 100 jobs in the Boston, MA area and had two job interviews. It's even been difficult to find temp work. Who on eath put this list together? Boston's a terrible place to look for work.

[Linda P]

01:36 PM on 12/05/2010

It's not responsible nor kind to open with this kind of optimistic headline... also, just because a "job" has been posted BUT it does NOT mean a real job opening exists ... it only means They are gathering data about what talent is out there ... I know several people who have applied for many of these "job postings" with former employers for positions they held formerly or are over skilled for, and the job postings are still .... well, ... posted .... and this is 4 months afterwards... I also know people who have relocated from the east coast to the west coast for a job only to be laid off after a few weeks or a couple of months.... job postings are inflated to make it appear that there are real job openings.

[FPhoebe]

12:27 PM on 12/04/2010

Um, so Hartford CT is one of the cities hit hardest by the recession AND one of the best cities to find a job in right now? Methinks someone did their research incorrectly, or just made $h!t up.

[Jackie2000]

06:18 PM on 12/18/2010

thinkin' the same thing!

[pamelalyn]

09:51 AM on 12/04/2010

It's interesting that some of the cities listed are also cities that have the highest costs of living. In the case of New York and Boston, you would certainly need a very well paying job in order to live there.

[dmgg711]

11:59 PM on 12/03/2010

Let's be realistic about these jobs that are available and local's aren't interested? You wonder what kind of jobs are waiting to be filled. Are these jobs that undocumented workers had to leave and now businesses are looking for citizens to fill these low paying jobs without benefits? I am sure citizens who are not working would surely take a job even though it may pay minimum wage between $7.25 to $8.25 hourly, depending on the state's minimum wage law. But then would they get more on unemployment than working for low wages?

[galivantstom]

11:50 PM on 12/03/2010

Generally, for engineers and laborers, the job situation is still bad and for middle management who also lost their jobs, the employment future is bleak.

In Detroit, because of new demand for autos, Ford, GM and even Chrysler have begun hiring. The UAW, to help the companies survive, agreed to a two tiered employee pay schedule. New employees are hired at salaries substantially lower than the senior employees whose jobs were never eliminated in the cutbacks. As they leave, their vacancies will be filled with new employees at the lower scale. Resulting growth will begin occurring in the supply sector as volume increases.

Now that the bubble on homes has finally burst, millions of Americans are now trapped in their homes. They find themselves unable to sell their homes and go where the jobs, as few as there are, exist.

The aforementioned cities where employment is relatively low also have residents who are caught in the same trap with their homes, and are also trapped.

The stimulus programs are beginning to show an effect on employment which in and of itself will to new job creation. For the hardest hit states like Michigan, South Carolina and Indiana this a welcome change. With the virtual elimination of middle class in manufacturing, states reliant on tourism are likely going to suffer for many years to come.

[kyrhett]

01:25 PM on 12/03/2010

Live in Cleveland? Not with Lebron gone now!!

[Barry Dennis]

12:40 PM on 12/03/2010

Now, if Juju or Dept fo Labor would just calibrate the job openings skill and education levels required with the unemployed's skill and education sets available, we would see the disparity in the stats.
Sooner, rather than later, business and government will realize that the key to our society's
survival is Human Capital-it's development and nurturing. The infrastucture and skill sets of educators must change. Using the "disruptive technology" of the Internet could demonstrably assist in this process.
Then, perhaps the chasm between what the unemployed have to offer and the education
and skill requirements needed by comerce and business will narrow.
It's worth pointing out that in Maryland some community colleges are "partnering" with business around specific skill sets and training for business needs, leading to growing numbers of Associate degree graduates being ready for different types of workplaces and job environments.
Much, much more needs to be acomplished

[tlcpro]

08:44 AM on 12/03/2010

This is all well and good for cliff dwellers, but what about those of us who prefer not to live in the city, it doesn't speak. I live in a town of 700 people and there are no jobs for most of us who live here.

[BlueSkyPilot]

01:19 PM on 12/03/2010

There's not much of an option except to commute. I used to live in a Lakeside Cottage in the mountains that I loved but I worked 60 miles away in the nearest city. The commute was OK till gas prices went through the roof.

[Susan Templeton]

12:27 AM on 12/03/2010

Cities needing staff are not the best cities to LIVE in. You don't mention how many of these 'jobs' are menial work vs career options.

[Jacobite1789]

01:48 PM on 12/03/2010

good point but most unemployed people, i might be wrong, are just looking for something to do with a paycheck.

[LindaCSmith]

09:44 PM on 12/02/2010

I loved this little photo article so much I wrote a post for my blog around it at http://www.intlnat.com - I'm a Californian and can't imagine living in Maryland [although I'm sure it's very nice] just to get a job.

[davidqtn]

06:24 PM on 12/02/2010

Couldn't this also mean that in these cities, there are very few "advertised jobs"??