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April 1, 2012 billedge

Houston Real Estate TrendsThe 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

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