Top 10 Jobs in Boston

There was a Senior Citizens' Strike against Boston Hospital in the very early 20th century to protest high costs and it worked. Boston Harbor was the site of the 8th century Tea Party that protested high taxes and helped start the American Revolution. In the 21st Century, recent college graduates can find many career opportunities in the area and Travel Nursing is a lucrative occupation in Boston as well.

The city of Boston, Massachusetts takes education and employment training seriously.

With several major universities available, the city has reached out from them to at-risk youth and to adults that are underemployed, unemployed, or looking to change careers. Much of the work is coming out of Harvard since the late 1990s- 2000's and is opening up increasing numbers of oppotunities for careers for high school youth, young adutls the middle ages and senior citizens in designated trainng programs under the Workforce Development Act.

Harvard University began to more fully apply the Theory of Multiple Intelligences estanlished by Howard Gardner to the world of work in the late 1990s. Their findings are that people usually do have a "work personality" and a job or two that they are best suited to work and in which they will excel almost anturally. I applied this theory in the early 1990s during great success - doubling the number of GED certificates earned through our school in Ohio for several years. The same style of success is being seen in Boston.

In addition, recent college graduates are likely to find expanding opportunties in and around Boston, and HR recuiters are visiting areas campuses in increasing numbers to harvest these graduates for long term employment.In addition, Massachusetts provides half of all New England jobs, which totals over 6 million for the region, acording to the US Department of Labor.

Green Industries are expanding in Boston as well, hiring youth in summer employment and trianing programs and adults year around.

Recent salary surveys of the National Association of Colleges and Employers show that the average starting wages in the Top 10 Industries in Boston that are hiring new college graduates are the following:

1. Accounting Services $42,000
2. Engineering Services $45,000
3. Educational Services $20,000
4. Retail and Wholesale Commerce $33,536
5. Building, Developing, and General Contracting $40,000
6. Consulting Services $44,000
7. Financial Services $40,000
8. Food, Beverage, & Tobacco $45,000
9. Government (State, County and City) $34,000
10. Government (Federal) $40,000

Healthcare provides neatly 14 million jobs in and around Boston and half of the fastest 20 fast growing occupations. The largest numbers of Healthcare Job Listings are in the following large groups of professionals:

• Home Health Care Aide
• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
• Register Nurses (RN)
• Health Care Administrators and Managers
• Medical Secretaries
• Medical Techs
• Physical Therapists
• Physicians

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL is the largest employer in the State of Massachusetts. Travel Nursing opportunities are good in Boston as well. If you should want to move to Boston here's How to Ask for a Job Transfer.

Boston offers many of the highest quality educational faciltities in the nation and North America:

• Bay State College
• Berklee College of Music
• The Boston Architectural Center
• Boston College
• Boston Conservatory
• Boston University
• Bunker Hill Community College
• Cambridge College
• Emerson College
• Emmanuel College
• Fisher College
• Franklin Institute of Boston
• Harvard
• Katherine Gibbs School
• Lesley University
• Longy School of Music
• Massachusetts College of Art
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
• MIT
• New England College of Optometry
• New England Conservatory
• New England School of Law
• Northeastern University
• Roxbury Community College
• Saint John's Seminary
• School of The Museum of Fine Arts
• Simmons College
• Suffolk University
• Tufts University
• Urban College of Boston
• UMass Boston
• Wentworth Institute of Technology
• Wheelock College