The first city that I looked at was Milwaukee, and there was an array of different jobs available. A lot of the jobs were physical labor jobs of working in a factory, or transporting things places, or catering jobs. There were also a number of assistant jobs available as well. I did notice that most of the jobs on the website were either contract or temporary jobs, and few were permanent. The next city that I looked at was Madison. Similar to Milwaukee, the majority of the jobs listed were physical labor jobs such as an assembler, technician, laborer, and even a truck driver. There were a couple accountant and sales jobs as well, but most of the jobs were contract or temporary jobs in Madison as well. The last city that I searched was Mequon, WI, a suburb north of Milwaukee. There were only 6 jobs offered there and they ranged from engineering, to administrative work and customer service to a material handler job. All six of the jobs are either temporary or contractor jobs.
I do not think i could say whether or not they are "good" jobs, but none of the jobs that were offered were very appealing to me. We talked a little bit about this in discussion, but in our society today I think there are stigmas surrounding jobs such as the ones listed, and there is also pressure to get a job in the area that you studied in school. It is interesting that the societal pressure exists, and I think it definitely deters people from applying for jobs such as the ones on Manpower.
I agree with your last paragraph about none of the jobs being appealing to you. I, too didn't find any job that I would personally apply for. I think it's so true that these kind of jobs are stigmatized. Really none of the jobs listed needed a college experience and thus they aren't the types of jobs you would want to tell people about. I noticed one job that was listed in my various searches was a radio tester and it paid 10-13 dollars an hour which, for the little work you'd be putting into it, really isn't that bad of pay. However, telling your friends your job is to test radios isn't all that cool, and so I think most teenagers would rather work in retailing and make less.
ReplyDeleteI found that urban areas were more heavily concentrated with opportunities via this site. I'm assuming it's because there are more areas for manufacturing in those vicinities. I don't think that the jobs were appealing to me either, especially since not many of them needed a degree to do. I feel like it would be appealing to someone without a degree because they could make a substantially more amount of money than food service or retail, but as a graduate from a great university, I prefer something different.
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