The best cities for jobs offer more than just healthy employment numbers, a new report says. They also provide diverse opportunities and livability appeal.

Categories: Job Creation
Tagged: job growth, jobs, quality of life, Rustbelt, Sunbelt,

Forget red and blue states, The Rust Belt and the Sun Belt. Today’s business-rich regions are growing outside of traditional boundaries.

Categories: Job Creation, Site Selection
Tagged: Agriculture, energy, Great Plains, Gulf Coast, jobs, manufacturing, migration, Technology,

What will be the fastest growing jobs in 2013? It will be the jobs that require critical thinking, creativity and cannot be easily automated or programmed for a robot to do.

Categories: Research, Workforce Development
Tagged: creative class, jobs, Richard Florida, STEM,

With 80 million members, the Millennial generation will soon represent the largest and most diverse group of employees in the workforce. What makes them different from previous generations of workers — and what do employers need to know to motivate them?

Categories: Research
Tagged: Baby Boomers, Demographics, Generation X, Generation Y, jobs, Millennials, talent, workforce, workplace,

With the presidential election approaching, the debate over job creation is heating up. Candidates have grand plans for sustaining and creating jobs, but how do they tap into what’s really driving growth across the country?

Categories: Job Creation
Tagged: 2012 presidential election, Agriculture, Akron OH, Charlotte NC, economic recovery, energy, jobs, manufacturing, Oh-Penn region, Reshoring, Rust Belt,

Generation Y workers — also referred to as Millennials — are the fastest growing group of new employees, with about 40 million currently in the workforce and millions more being added every year. How can companies recruit and attract the best and brightest of this job-hopping generation — and keep them invested?

Categories: Research
Tagged: employees, Gen Y, HR, jobs, Millennials, talent attraction, workforce,

Americans used to be known for making products; today they specialize in working with customers. Service-related jobs in education, health and business are quickly overtaking manufacturing as the nation’s top job sector.

Categories: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: creative class, Employment, jobs, Made in the USA, manufacturing, production, services, workforce,