How hard is it to find a job in your city?

Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by wincy on Monday August 22, 2016 @08:34AM (#12335844)

I think the top 5 places are where it's hardest to get a job. So for every 1 job listing in San Jose there's 4 people looking for work. Granted I'd guess San Jose is a special case because if you don't have technical skills you're probably going to have a bad time trying to find a job around there.

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by robmass94 on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:06AM (#12336021)

I'm pretty sure it's the opposite: for every four job postings, there is one person looking for work. So, the climate is very good.

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by VLM on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:25AM (#12336129)

The climate isn't very good for the people in the indeed marketplace. I looked up the indeed in my home town (admittedly not SV) and the jobs were almost entirely below $30K/yr, in the service sector, very low paying receptionist, driver, retail, part time no benefits type of jobs.

True, someone needs to answer the phone and drive trucks in San Jose... just they can't afford to live there on receptionist or delivery driver pay. So there's job openings.

Its a "top 50 worst places to live for working poor" list calculated by finding where working poor cannot live or work anymore, so the jobs go unfilled.

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by ctvo on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:14AM (#12336068)

Why are you sure it's the opposite? From the site:

> Here's the number of unemployed per job posting for the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the U.S.

The title is even "Job Competition" so it's likely the chart is listing the most competitive cities for jobs.

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by greg5green on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:17AM (#12336089)

Because there are 4 empty chairs next to one person (and the legend says an empty chair is a job posting)

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by ctvo on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:31AM (#12336173)

This is hilarious. None of that shows up on mobile so depending on what device you're viewing this on, your interpretation of the data is completely different.

Mobile: http://imgur.com/a/usQpB

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by Nicholas_C on Monday August 22, 2016 @12:16PM (#12337347)

Oh wow. I completely interpreted it the other way due to mobile as well. Poorly done on their part. Thanks for sharing.

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by cjessett on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:20AM (#12336097)

It seems San Jose is the least competitive, with the blue chairs being job postings and the orange people being unemployed job seekers. Thus, four open chairs to one unemployed person, followed by 3 open chairs to one unemployed person.

The title and summary above the listing is rather confusing.

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Re:How hard is it to find a job in your city? by joegester on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:26AM (#12336136)

I think the chairs don't show up on mobile.

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