Posted on 03/20/2014 7:54:27 AM PDT by barmag25
Looking for a job? North Dakota wants you.
In a new recruiting campaign to be rolled out in May, the North Dakota Economic Development Foundation is aiming to fill more than 20,000 jobs -- ranging from truck drivers and oilfield workers to receptionists and food servers.
North Dakota's huge oil boom has spurred thousands of job seekers to flock to the state for years now. In some cities, the population has quadrupled.
Yet, the growth continues and companies are still so desperate for workers that the state is teaming up with oil giant Hess Corp. to launch an $800,000 campaign to attract new talent.
Related: How to get talented people to work in the middle of nowhere
"It is being developed to target people in states with chronic unemployment, and people in industries that are high-demand in North Dakota, including: engineering, healthcare, energy, skilled trades, transportation and information technology," the foundation said in a statement.
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There was an article the other day about a welfare parasite turning down an $80k truck driving job.
Sounds like a real estate opportunity...
The key to any job in the North Dakota right now is making sure it comes with a place to sleep at night. Rent in Williston is $2200/month for a one bedroom apartment.
People were moving there with RV’s. You need a place to park it though.
The man camp buildings continue to be purchased for the actual oil workers. Everybody else is on their own.
However, I think welders, class 1 truckers, strippers, etc. are still in high demand.
And I would guess good bird hunting too.
http://www.nd.gov/category.htm?id=95
http://www.indeed.com/l-North-Dakota-jobs.html
https://www.ndworkforceconnection.com/vosnet/Default.aspx
http://northdakota.jobing.com/
http://www.careerbuilder.com/Jobs/ND/
http://jobs.monster.com/l-north-dakota.aspx
and on and on...
Nice place for a working summer vacation but I wouldn’t want to live there in the dead of winter.
The other thing I found a bit odd up there was it was the only place we ever lived where the schools had no hot lunch program—they all walked home and back for lunch! The thermometer hit 20 below zero while we were there—schools didn’t close, and the kids still walked home for lunch!
They’re a hardy bunch!
Coming this summer a construction boom as well.
If you (or a youth entering the job market) have hardware skills as well as software and a science or engineering degree, I’d take a good look at companies like Schlumberger, Halliburton, etc who provide oilfield services. These are all highly sophisticated computer-based systems which require specialized tech support in the field and in support facilities. Pay is good because downtime is very expensive, and it’s not a job for some metrosexual wuss who wants to sit in a cubefarm in the sunbelt. And a person could say they have a great fracking job ;-)
Saw the long rows of RV trailers with the BIG propane tanks next to them in the WSJ, supposedly they rent for $2000+ per month plus utilities.
Summer is defined as above freezing.
“Who wants to bet somebody in the Federal government is trying to figure out how to derail this.”
Well, they’ll get their cut of federal income taxes (in an area where deductions are probably smaller than elsewhere). Eventually they’ll transfer over North Dakota’s allocation of perpetual gibsmedats for them to house, feed, clothe, and “school”...the parasites need a healthy host.
The infrastructure had to improved dramatically. These were primarily farming communities. The roads were not set up to handle the truck traffic. There was a cross road south of Williston where the main highway from Montana came east. It used to back up 10+ miles everyday. They had to build a bypass around the town.
So it is not just home construction. It is building everything: roads, utilities, truck stops, restaurants, motels, bars, schools, office buildings, camp grounds, gas stations, convenience stores, etc.
This is just like what happened in Alaska during the building of the pipeline... I worked for a Cat dealer and I produced all the invoices for every piece of equipment sold...and later worked in HR...We had a mechanic make more than the company president one year... (overtime) crazy times
The hottest I have ever been (and I’ve lived most of my life in Texas)—is Williston.
There are a few days of 90+ weather in the summer, and there was little to no air conditioning. Add to that the fact that our windows had storm windows covering them so we couldn’t even raise the windows—no attic or ceiling fans, either.
Of course we hadn’t figured out that we could take off the storm windows, having never been exposed to such at that time.
We lived there in the late 60’s, early 70’s.
strippers... lol...
And Obama and the left would look at this and seek to force it to stop. At State gunpoint.
“There was an article the other day about a welfare parasite turning down an $80k truck driving job.”
Most jobs I see advertised locally here in NJ are for truck drivers; I think clean licenses are an issue.
That guy was on Hannity talking about how he ‘works’ every day- turn out his work is sitting in a recording stuidio waiting for a contract.
In the meantime he is collecting welfare and food stamps.
Hannity told him he could get him and 80K a year job and he turned it down.
I think that should automatically disqualify him for ‘benefits’, shouldn’t it?
Maybe we could get SURFER DUDE who lives on welfare to go to work driving a truck for $80,000 a year!
Oh wait, Hannity offered him that job on his program and Surfer dude turned it down!
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