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Kiplinger has compiled the best cities for new grads. Baltimore and Washington are listed among the top ten cities for your career development.
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The hottest tech companies may be in Silicon Valley, but the strongest tech job growth is occurring in places like Washington and Baltimore. Washington places second with 20.6% growth in tech employment since 2001 and Baltimore places fifth with 38.8% growth in tech jobs. 
Success affects everyone differently and not necessarily in a good way. You've got to be pretty well grounded in reality to withstand the ego-inflating onslaught of winning big in business. Since we're all human, we're all susceptible to the unusual pressures and pitfalls that come from achieving what we've always dreamed of. Here are ten common traps successful leaders fall into. Several signs point to a potential uptick in hiring for DC based associations. Demand for advocacy staff continues to be strong. In 2011, job openings advertised in CEO Update related to government relations and communication functions increased 22 percent from 2010. 
Washington has the third strongest small business sector in the Eastern United States, according to the latest annual ratings by On Numbers. Baltimore ranked No. 10 in On Number's regional standings in 2011. 
How labor markets actually work is poorly understood by most people. Misconceptions abound. Unemployment varies widely by industry, education level, and host of other factors. No one-size-fits-all solutions exits, but reading this will clarify the issue. 
The economic consensus appears to be that a real recovery is taking hold. Here is yet another article on the topic. 
Baltimore and Washington rank among the top ten cities for social media jobs. More small-business owners (22%) intend to increase the number of jobs at their company in the next year than to decrease them (8%), the biggest margin in four years, according to new Wells Fargo-Gallup Small Business Index survey. 
Information technology is reducing the need for certain jobs faster than new ones are being created. 
As the Pentagon confronts the prospect of cutting its budget about 10 percent over the next decade, some are warning that the potential impact on scientific innovation is being overlooked. 
The Vistage CEO Confidence Index reports its largest quarterly gain since 2009, with a remarkable 18 percent increase from the 3rd to the 4th quarter of 2011. 
It's the most states to report such declines in eight years. Among states with the lowest unemployment rates, Virgina ranks 10th and Maryland 15th nationally. 
The internet was just a warm-up act. Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution. The concept of an "Industrial Internet" has been discussed for years, but it takes time for the economics and engineering to catch up with the predictions. And that moment is upon us. |
DC commuters wasted 45 hours in traffic last year, placing DC as the 6th worst city in the US for traffic, but hey, that means we had jobs to go to right? 
The number of job openings is now at pre-recession levels. But the unemployment rate is still high. Historically, the unemployment rate would be follow the pattern of job vacancies and be at pre-recession levels as well. This is why talk of a “War For Talent” has begun again.
The labor market recovery varies widely from city to city. As always, Washington fares well. The good news is that many of the largest metropolitan areas will be back above pre-recession employment levels within a few months 
The typical worker in the District of Columbia earned $78,554 in 2010, up from $51,739 in 2000, based on raw data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. That yields an annual growth rate of 4.26 percent for D.C., the best among any major county. 
Bitter experience makes it easy to expect more disappointment, but there are at least a couple of reasons to think that, this time, things may be different... 
The data illustrate a recovery beginning to take hold across the nation. Kiplinger has compiled the best cities for new grads. Baltimore and Washington are listed among the top ten cities for your career development. 
A Gallup survey of small business owners shows they’re feeling the best they have in three years — here’s why... 
Vistage CEO Confidence Index: More hiring. More investing. Better profits. Here's what CEOs are anticipating in the year ahead. 
The Washington area had the third-lowest unemployment rate in November in the nation among big cities, falling from 5.7 percent in October to 5.4 percent. 
We're finally in a period of real economic growth, not the bubble economy growth of past decades. Yes, government debt has ballooned, but it has done so in a climate of very low interest rates, which means that servicing the public debt costs less than at any point since the 1980s. There is plenty of reason for optimism. 
Maryland's unemployment rate improved to 6.9 percent in November as more people got back to work, the U.S. Department of Labor said today. |
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