Employment outlook for Indiana
01/04/09
Indiana Unemployment sits currently at about ten percent or a bit higher. That is the bad news.
The good news is that those same companies which are letting people go, are still going to have to hire for certain jobs, even at the same time they down size other departments.
The current US overall unemployment rate sits at about 8.9 percent so the Indiana rate is a bit higher than this. Until recently it was lower than those surrounding states, but has crept upward in the past few months.
The Automobile industry obviously isn’t in as great a shape as it used to be and to that end, since many actually commute to jobs in that field, have given their share of layoffs and downsizing. Significant other layoffs in Indiana include primarily manufacturing, with most of these in the transportation industry. Many of those job losses were also moved, rather than closed, meaning a relocation may have helped the workers to keep their jobs.
According to the BLS, in the last three and one half years, since 2005, 67 percent of job layoffs were the manufacturing industry,so it does appear that’s not the place to start if you are beginning a new career.
Retail trades permanently laid off about 5,245 workers, which encompasses more than 12 percent of the total permanent layoffs since about 2004, while companies which ply their trade in the finance industry lessened their employee rates by about four percent.
Their health care industry seems to be the most stable at the moment, with just a two percent loss, as well as the warehousing industry at just three percent loss in the same few years time span.
The companies in which you’d likely find employment are service industries in the Indiana job s market, as well as health care, and electrical and computer manufacturing industries, which seem to be growing even in a severely limited job market.
IT jobs, and technical support positions are fairly stable as well, though many of them are not currently hiring.
The key to finding that new job you’re looking for seems to be to keep your eyes open and keep digging, since many of the industries which are laying off for one position are hiring for another.
Indianapolis Unemployment Office
08/05/09
Indianapolis Unemployment Office
The Indianapolis Office of Unemployment, with the major office being located at
46219-1770 can be reached by telephone at
317-358-4500.
The Indianapolis office of Unemployment or Workforce Development offers you several opportunities to file for your unemployment compensation, as well as to speak with career counselors so that you may begin training in a new career and find funding for it as well
The Indianapolis Unemployment office is currently offering some new perks as well, with their Major Opportunities training underway that will benefit Gary, Indianapolis and South Bend regions of Indiana.
The Classes will be geared toward offering minority workers with additional skills they need to be able to work in building and construction trades so that when the Major Moves road constructions comes to pass which is scheduled, they will be able to benefit financially from those programs.
In Indianapolis, the Associated Builders & Contractors has just begun training their second class of students.
Governor Daniels said recently that “The Major Opportunities program is designed to ensure that members of the minority community have access to these new jobs by providing them the skills necessary for success in the building trades.”
The Indianapolis Unemployment office can also provide you the information that you need to take advantage of these new programs by the Indianapolis Unemployment and state programs to help you get up and get back into the ranks of the employed.
Indiana Unemployment office in Indianapolis can also assist you in filing for your initial unemployment compensation insurance, as well as to assist you in filing for the federal extensions that you are entitled to if you are displaced from your job through no fault of your own.
