Boise Job Market Report

Senior and Searching
Oct 12th, 2007
If you are 50 or older and beginning a professional or managerial job search, you face definite challenges. Knowing some facts will help you understand these challenges and put them in perspective, help you cope with the unique situation seniors confront in a job search or career change, and assist you in moving forward.

The Focus…is on Focus
Jan 15th, 2006
As a professional who has dealt with different aspects of the career business for more than a decade, I have come to some interesting conclusions. From mid-level managers to CEOs, I have done substantial research to determine the “secret,” if one exists, to maximum career development. My focus has been to differentiate between success and ultra-success in careers, and the findings have been interesting.

Is Boise Still a Boomtown?
Dec 15th, 2005
In the past few years, Boise has been a formidable competitor on the list of Top Ten Fastest-Growing Cities in the United States, ranking third nationally as recently as Fall 2005. This is especially surprising when you consider that Idaho’s unemployment rate is only 3.5 percent, compared to the national average of 5.1 percent. Here’s another astounding figure: some studies suggest as many as 95 percent of people that move to Idaho come here without jobs waiting for them. In short, they move to the area and hope for the best, beginning career searches or starting their own business ventures.

Losing A Job – Shock, Depression, and Then What?
Oct 12th, 2005
Most psychologists will concur in listing sudden job loss as one of the most traumatic tests of emotion that a person and his or her family will ever encounter. Historically, research studies have listed “sudden job loss” just behind “death of a loved one” and “divorce” as the most trying times from which to recover, both emotionally and physically.