quote-unquote, a secure industry. it is about planning for the long-term future. i love your term experimentation. it s about committing to a lifetime of learning and developing. problem solving. and problem solving. the hot careers, we don t know what they are yet. no one would have guessed that. social media manager or mobile developer. it s a new thing. people who get those jobs are people who have been paying attention to how things changed in their industries. i see you nodding the whole time. you re sort of in a unique spot here because you really are trying to build and do build bridges between the students here at this university and the employers in this community that wanted to help them get jobs. the traditional framework is exactly what we just heard from charles. find a secure industry. become a doctor. you become a lawyer. you become an engineer. whatever it is. and what we re seeing is that the real skill it seems is your ability to identify the needs of a given bu
but if you have a high quality how that you are then not only more likely to solve problems but also more likely to put yourself in a situation where you can help the people around you. that s right. i think that a component of the how comes down to managing the expectations of a recent college graduate entering the work force as opposed to maybe looking for a job and focusing on the initial monetary benefit of that opportunity, focusing more on getting any job that has a reasonable prospect of offering growth and piques the interest of the job seeker. it is very important because then when you go in you show your work ethic, your commitment to the team. growth opportunities will come after that and it s hard for us to condition ourselves but sometimes the process is more important than the result. go ahead, charles. it s really about focusing i think for young people on long-term results. you can get real benefits from internships, volunteerships not
i was hired into this position to eventually move my way into an engineering position. understood. give us a sense, charles, from monst monster s perspective. you had a tremendous day today. you get a lot of people putting themselves into your data base and more importantly a good sense of where the demand for work is. this spring, graduating in two months, i m looking for a job. right. where should i be looking? we ve seen a 9% growth in overall jobs posted on monster.com. just available work. a growth of 9% in the monster index. over one year. january from 2011. that s good news. that is. we re seeing high growth in a lot of fields you d expect. fields we know about like high tech engineering, health care as you talked about. we see a lot of jobs on monster as well in transportation, legal, finance industries. i think the best advice for students planning their long-term career is not to try to stake their bet on,
engineering, is currently working, gainfully employed. congratulations. thank you. charles purdy monster.com s career advice expert can tell us where the jobs are. he has the dateda baa base. he can tell you where the work is and where he thinks it will come from and jamie knows exactly what it takes to get hired in his community and what we can learn in our own. it is nice to see the three of you. thank you for coming out. congrats on getting the gig. thank you. pretty awesome. i know. what are you doing? a shift supervisor for corning glass. so you re making my flat screen tv? yes. we make cover screen glass, high definition, high quality glass. right now i am shift supervisor so i supervise 30 employees at a time. one year out of school, 30 people? i m not even one year out of school. not even. that s a good job. yeah. i m only nine months.