While
Glassdoor is often known for its company reviews and employer opportunities, it’s increasingly a place where people turn to find open jobs. In fact, Glassdoor is now the fastest growing jobs site in the U.S.,
[1] and 86% of Glassdoor users are either actively looking for jobs or would consider taking a new job if they saw a better opportunity
[2].
But where do we see the highest concentration of active job seekers? We took a look at our jobs database to find out where job seekers are most active in order to identify this summer’s
Hottest Cities for Hiring.
This summer’s
Hottest Cities for Hiring are:
1. New York, New York
Why it made the list: The “Big Apple” is at the core of the United States’ national and international financial services industry. It’s also home to the largest collection of printing plants in the United States
[3]. With over 2.8M
[4] job searches each week, it’s no wonder New York is buzzing with opportunities for eager candidates.
2. Los Angeles, California
Why it made the list: Often called “The Entertainment Capital of the World”, Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center
[5] in the United States, with plants for everything from apparel, computer and electronics, to fabricated metal and food. Additionally, Los Angeles is home to the largest retail market in the United States. With more than 1.7M job searches each week, Los Angeles is bustling with active job seekers looking to make it big beneath the famous Hollywood sign.
3. San Francisco, California
Why it made the list: San Francisco has long been a hub for trade and shipping, but most recently, San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley have become the precipice of technological innovation. “Fog City” is an important part of the health care, biomedical and non-profit service industry as well, employing over 20% of the city’s workers
[6]. San Francisco is thriving with more than 1.6M job searches each week.
4. Chicago, Illinois
Why it made the list: Chicago is the second largest publishing centers in the country, second only to New York
[7]. The “Windy City” is also considered one of the worlds’ top global financial centers. With over 1.5M job searches each week, Chicago is a clear pick on our list of the hottest cities for hiring.
5. Dallas/Fort-Worth, Texas
Why it made the list: Dallas (aka the “Silicon Prairie”) is one of today’s biggest tech hubs. Roughly 19
Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the area, including
Neiman Marcus,
Southwest Airlines, and
ExxonMobil[8]. With approximately 1.1M job searches each week, Dallas’s technology presence continues to expand.
What does it mean for companies with a presence in one of these cities?
There’s a healthy supply of job seekers, but as always there is fierce competition to recruit the very best. Get a leg up on the competition by
posting your jobs where you know 25M
[9]candidates visit every month to find a dream job.
Methodology: To organize this heat map, we identified U.S. metros with the highest volume of overall Glassdoor job searches (on a weekly basis.) A job search is defined as a candidate entering a particular “job title” and “location (city/state)” to browse open job listings meeting the requested criteria. To identify number of open jobs, we looked at all sponsored and aggregated jobs which were active and no more than 60 days old during [May-July 2015].
[1] According to Comscore (June 2015) and based on comparisons to LinkedIn.com, Monster.com, Indeed.com and CareerBuilder.com
[2] Glassdoor US Site Survey (October 2014)
[3] According to New York: Economy information from City-Data.com (2004-5)
[4] Glassdoor jobs database, [July, 2015]
[5] According to Los Angeles: Economy information from City-Data.com (2009)
[6] Lee, Wendy, “Tech isnt’ biggest S.F. industry; health care is”, SFGate. November 18, 2004.
[7] According to Chicago: Economy information from City-Data.com (2009)
[8] According to Dallas: Economy information from City-Data.com (2009)
[9] Google Analytics, July 2015
