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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ah... a consequence for choices.
I’m sure the left hates that. That’s what most of their policies are centered around - alleviating the consequences for poor choices at the expense of those who made good choices.
Wonder if there are divisions of oil companies that can run over and frack you a septic hole for your RV.
Yep - it’s booming. I work auto claims for that state and the body shops are backed up 2-3 months.
“I’m sure the left hates that. That’s what most of their policies are centered around - alleviating the consequences for poor choices at the expense of those who made good choices.”
Of course.
A trucker I know also described how many didn’t want to do the long hauls; many ads specifically promise that “you’ll be home every night”. While the cross-country may have been appealing when I was younger, I wouldn’t enjoy it while raising a family now.
Perusing those job sites I see lots of manual labor and skilled trades in demand. All right pay on some of them, too.
Hearing about the housing conditions though I wonder how much of that good pay is getting soaked up in rent/RV parking fees.
The security and maintenance troops at Minot and Grand Forks AFB have been doing that kind of thing for years.
They could probably double the number of those jobs if the damned pipeline would be approved. The douchebag democrat party is doing everything it can to prevent those jobs from being created so their buddy Warren Buffett can make more money using his rail holdings to ship it.
What I have read, a major problem is getting enough people to pass the drug test.
The Keystone XL pipeline won't go through North Dakota. Montana to South Dakota. Close, but no contact.
BTTT!
strippers....lol
Actually, there have been a couple articles that claim that the strippers in Williston were making $1000-2000 per shift.
This was attracting young ladies literally from all over the world.
I understand the oil workers work four days on, four days off. I guess men that are a long way from home do not want to hang out at the library on their days off.
“What I have read, a major problem is getting enough people to pass the drug test.”
That makes sense, though I would think as more and more people from other professions are looking at long-term (or permanent) unemployment the pool would improve. A common complaint among many without degrees is that employers are hiring others with them (even if it isn’t necessary) because so many are available and they don’t cost much.
Dang!! 2k a shift!!
im in the wrong line of work!
“The recession hit the trucking industry pretty hard.”
I would have suspected that the drop in consumption would have cost a lot of truckers their jobs; I guess the government restrictions you mention prevented that.
Why aren’t all the unemployed and disadvantaged in Detroit, DC, and elsewhere being referred there by their caseworkers? The caseworker’s first priority is getting their clients off public assistance—is it not?
What I have read, a major problem is getting enough people to pass the drug test.”
According to trucking companies I deal with out west, passing a drug test is one of the major problems in hiring drivers. You want to make sure the person driving your $150K tractor, $50-80K trailer and the material on/in the trailer is not a screw up. Plus the liability IF they get into an accident.
Oh, I understand why they want clean drivers; I’m just surprised there isn’t a glut of them as people fall out of other fields but still have to earn a living.
Drivers were laid off. Trucking companies went out of business. Over the last year or so the companies have been buying new trucks and hiring drivers. The starting pay for a driver in ID is about $40-45K according to an independent trucking company I deal with that hauls lumber for me. He just bought two new Peterbuilt’s about 2 months ago. They were $154,000 each. The flatbed trailers are another $70,000.
“The starting pay for a driver in ID is about $40-45K according to an independent trucking company I deal with that hauls lumber for me.”
I’m surprised they are lacking drivers; while that pay would have been pooh-poohed years ago here in NJ, people are slowly starting to realize that many of the jobs over $50K have left permanently. Those that can, leave; those that can’t should be snapping those jobs up.
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