Top trends in Houston Hiring

Top trends in Houston Hiring Top trends in Houston Hiring Top trends in Houston Hiring Intelligence dug into whos hiring and for what in Houston these days. If youre recruiting in this area, youll want to know what we found. Referred to as Greater Houston, the Houston metro area is the fifth-largest market in the United States and the second largest in Texas with a population of about 6.5 million. Houston is second to New York City in Fortune 500 headquarters according to the Fortune 500 2015 list and home to the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world. The area is one of the leading centers of the energy industry, particularly petroleum processing, but also biomedical research, aeronautics and high technology. The biggest drivers of job growth are the Houston metro areas leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, retail, and financial activities industries. In the past year this growth has been offset by jobs shed in the professional and business services, manufacturing, and mining and logging industries. Still, the area has created 5,200 new jobs over the past 12-months; the unemployment rate was 5.5% in June 2016 which was 0.6 percentage points above the national rate of 4.9%. By June 2016, 3 million workers were employed in the Houston area, and the market accounts for 22% of all Texas jobs posted on Monster, second to the Dallas metro area. To give you some insight into what your recruiting competitors are up to, our Intelligence team analyzed data from the CEB TalentNeuron tool to identify which companies are posting the most jobs, and which jobs are most listed, and which jobs are most searched. Supporting the biggest industry drivers of job growth in Houston the positions most in-demand includes: registered nurses, truck drivers, and retail sales workers. What are companies hiring for? Most Common Employment in Houston: Administrative Supervisors Retail Supervisors Executives Construction and Extraction Supervisors Operating and Production Managers Most In-Demand Jobs in Houston: Registered Nurses (RNs) Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-trailer Retail Salespersons Supervisors, Retail Sales Customer Service Representatives Houston Jobs: 39% of available Houston area jobs are for Healthcare, Sales, and Technology workers Of all open healthcare positions, 46% of available Healthcare jobs are for Nurses Of all open sales positions, 39% of available Sales jobs are for Retail Of all open technology positions, 30% of available Technology jobs are for Software Engineers Most Common Houston Jobs Include: Registered Nurses # employed: 46,700 Annual wage: $76,790 Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-trailer # employed: 39,660 Annual wage: $40,920 Retail Salespersons # employed: 91,390 Annual wage: $26,250 Supervisors, Retail Sales # employed: 22,850 Annual wage: $47,100 What are job seekers looking for? Most viewed Houston jobs: Secretaries and Administrative Assistants Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing Customer Service Representatives Miscellaneous Business Operations Specialists (e.g., Project Managers, Program Managers, etc.) Miscellaneous Engineers (e.g., Validation Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, etc.) Top Houston job searches: Receptionist Administrative Assistant Part Time Accounting Sales Customer Service Warehouse Human Resources Entry Level Medical Assistant Want to know more about the top trends in Houston hiring? Check out the Houston Market Overview from Intelligence. Data finding are based on analysis of all available online jobs reported by the TalentNeuron tool and job seeking activity from more than 22 million unique visitors1. 1comScore Media Metrix, 1Q 2016, 3-month average, (includes all US Mobile + PC traffic)