The Texas Workforce Commission’s goal is to improve the way Texans make career and education decisions by providing useful and reliable information about careers, educational training options and jobs. Using data about labor trends, business investment patterns and educational requirements of workers as a base, Business Specialist, Michael “Mick” Normington said Houstonians have the highest wages in Texas. PRODUCTIVITY IS KING! The United States is making more with fewer workers. The good news is a recovery in the Money economy is definitely at hand, e.g. GDP, Profits, stocks.
| Help Wanted Job Listings for Texas | ||
| Job Type | Openings | Preferred Education |
| Registered Nurse | 28,241 | Associates Degree |
| Truck Driver (heavy) | 16,516 | On the Job Training |
| Computer Systems Analyst | 14,237 | Bachelor’s degree |
| Retail Salesperson | 14,101 | Short on the Job Training |
| Front-line Manager of retail workers | 13,924 | Related Work Experience |
| Web Developer | 11,505 | Associate’s degree |
| Customer Service Representative | 11,502 | Moderate on Job Training |
| Computer Support Sspecialist | 10.694 | Associate degree |
| Manager of Food Workers | 9.782 | Related work Experience |
| Accountant | 8,961 | Bachelor’s degree |
| Sale Rep (wholesale/manufacturing) | 8,881 | Related Work Experience |
| Network / Computer Systems Admin | 8,689 | Bachelors degree |
| Secretary/ Admin Assistant | 8,595 | Moderate on Job Training |
| Physical Therapist | 8,039 | Master’s degree |
Wages for temp workers are rising rapidly. This is not the national Trend. Houston is highest paying wages in Texas. Truck drivers and computer programmers are in demand. The Demographics of Texas workers have changed drastically. What is different today is that four generations of people are all in the same workplace.
There is a great skills mismatch. Generation X dominates the number of workers in Texas. Elsewhere in the United States generation X is the smallest number of workers.
America’s newest generation the Millennials should be the dominate group in the work force. Today 4 out of 10 people in their twenties still live at home.
One of the biggest problem’s in America is that baby boomer moms are letting their children live with them. This is sucking away their retirement money.
Knowledge transfer in the biggest problem CEOs talk to about. “Knowledge transfer is about getting people in an organization who know how things really get done and getting them together to simply talk about that with younger workers. It sounds simple, but it’s hard to do in most organizations. You’re paid to complete a task, not to communicate habits to co-workers.” Wendy Boswell, Management Professor and Director of the Center for Human Resources Management at Texas A&M University.
Key Trends Texas employers are seeing:
- 4 Generations at same job place.
- Baby boomers may never retire yet most Texas workers over 50 in:
Oil
Natural Gas
Nuclear Utilities
State Government
- Generation X workers dominating
- More Hispanic-American, more Asian-American, more college degreed, more women.
- Skill mismatch as employers are segmenting the tasks of jobs in order to shift away some tasks and blending other tasks to create new jobs.
Texas Employers are saying
When times are tough employers are demanding more college degrees.
Biggest problems we have are kids don’t take the tough courses.
Your grades don’t matter it is what can you do.
We don’t need more people who avoid taking the hard classes.
The price of education is growing faster than health care.
Excel spread sheet is the most important skill you can know in the work force.
Six months is the unemployment danger zone.
Can you work with people who are of a different age, race, gender and education level than you are?
The good news is that the Texas economy is doing better than most of the nation. Our Metro economies are growing the most. Working Texas Style is an excellent book which explains in detail the structural change going on in the current Texas economy.
Source: Texas Workforce Commission