Paper - Where the Jobs Are 2009

I get a lot of questions about where people should look for work.  That's a hard answer to frame because the same position would be a joy to one person, drudgery to another and a sentance of life-without-parole to a third.  You just can't tell what a person will like, or if its available to them at this place and at this time.

And then the hysteria sets in...  The fear from unknown pathways creeps up and seizes people by the throat.  Their pulse quickens.  Their breath becomes shallow.  And their ability to think dissapates while panic wells in the absence of reason.

Yes, I know the fear.  I've felt it and fought against it, sometimes I've succeeded.  The only thing that seems to help is information.  Who here is a little bit of information. 

The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC and they published this report on several areas that the Federal Government will need to expand their hiring in the next few years.  And item number 4 on their list is Legal (as in, jobs where it helps to have a law degree).

According to this report, the Federal Government will have to hire over 23,000 people in Fiscal Years 2010, 2011, and 2012.  That does include more positions then just "Attorney" jobs, but the Social Security Administration alone is looking to hire 7,500 people in legal-related positions.  According to Law Shucks, the bloody carnage of 2009 that sent us all into a tailspin totaled 12,196 people, only 4,633 of which were lawyers (see their year-end report).

Hmm, it looks like the Federal Government alone is going to absorb almost twice the people that BigLaw tossed over the side.  Opportunity?  I think so, and that's just in one category.

The report is a PDF in the feed, please peruse it and share it.

 

On the update front, there has been and will be a lot of work happening behind the curtain.  Some issues cropped up and I'm taking advantage of this chance to upgrade a LOT of items.

 

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