Assisted living jobs

One of the criteria that some folks like to consider when looking for a job is doing something that is helping others. There is a personal fulfillment that you receive when making someone else’s life better by assisting them in daily chores that most people take for granted. While assisted living jobs aren’t the highest paying work that you can find it would definitely worthwhile to folks that need help. This can be a particularly rewarding job if you are looking for a second career and are healthy enough to assist others.

What jobs make up assisted living jobs?

• Nurse 
• Different types of therapists 
• Food service workers 
• Administrative workers 
• Various aides to other staff workers

As you can imagine there is a certain amount of education involved in this kind of work. If you want to become a nurse or therapist then the education is much longer but the salary is also higher.

No matter where you work in an assisted living facility there are personal traits that you should possess, like enjoying helping and being around the elderly. Patience is also something that you will need because it wouldn’t always be easy dealing with the residents who are sometimes very sick.

Considering that the overall population is getting older there should be a high demand for this type of work in the future.

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Best cities to find work

One definite advantage to finding a job is living in a city or state that has a low unemployment and plenty of jobs. If you find yourself in this category then you are indeed fortunate. However that isn’t the case for most people especially in this economy. It’s easy to say that the solution to this problem is to move where there are more opportunities. If you are young and with little obligations then you should be packing your bags and moving as soon as you can, but if you have a family and connections to a community it can be another matter entirely. Your spouse may have a job they don’t want to leave and your children don’t want to be uprooted and taken away from their friends and schools. It’s a tough decision that some folks do make.


So where are the cities and states with the jobs?

If you have a bit of pioneer spirit and you can rough it out for a while then the oil fields of North Dakota might be for you. In a previous post I wrote about the vast number of jobs available not only in the oil fields but also in the businesses surrounding it. Of course the downside to this type of “modern gold rush” is that the town isn’t really ready for an influx of people moving in which translates to lack of housing and services.

Forbes magazine recently came out with a list of best cities to find jobs. I was surprised that the top city was San Jose, California and Washington D.C. came in second. You would think that any place in California would be ranked high due to their financial problems and Washington seems out of place also because of the cut back in government employees. Forbes uses a ranking system of the number of posts per thousand people to rank the cities.

Usnews.com has also come out with a list of cities with low unemployment, unlike Forbes their list is comprised of smaller cities. The cities were ranked not only by low unemployment but also how much the unemployment has dropped in the past year or so.

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Finding your career and potential employers

Before you begin any job search you have answer a few questions, such as what kind of career do I want and what companies offer those kinds of jobs. For some folks that isn’t much of a challenge because they know exactly what they want to do and they probably have a good idea what potential employers to target for those jobs. But a lot of people are unsure about their career paths even if they have been in the work force for a while.


Researching career paths

In order to find out what type of career or second career you want you have to do some researching. One of the best places to start is on the Federal Government‘s website Occupational Handbook which gives a vast amount of information on all types of occupations. They describe the type of training and education needed, the average salaries, what the job entails and the general outlook of employment chances now and in the future. The website is very user friendly and the information is updated every year.

Targeting potential employers

As you probably already know the internet has taken over as the best place to look for jobs. There are numerous private jobs sites as well as state and federal sites that have current job listings. Since there is a great amount of information to go through, make sure that you do specific searches on your particular type of job.

Here are some related posts on job research

Research and job hunting

Job hunting in the internet age

Precise job hunting

Finding jobs through the stock market

Finding employers to target

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Are there more opportunities on the night shift?

Working late and overnight shifts can be difficult for some folks to get used to. We all have an inner clock that tells us when to go to sleep and when to wake up; if you mess with that there could be trouble. But there are some people who have no problems with sleeping during the day and working at night, in fact there are a lot of folks that do. If you are unemployed you might want to check out any opportunities working the night shift.


What are the advantages of working the night shift?

Usually companies have to offer an added incentive to working the night shift or the late afternoon shift and that is with a shift differential (money added to hourly wage). If you can stand the hours it can be a real bump to your paycheck. Another good reason for working at night is the lack of meetings and management that you would have to deal with during the day. You still have to work but without the distractions that occur during the regular hours.

Now if you are someone that doesn’t need a lot of sleep you can also get things done during the day such as running errands and outside work.

The Department of labor has a good website on all things pertaining to night work, check it out.

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