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Study of WV Online Job Listings Shows State Lags

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Monday, March 30, 2015   

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Online job listings show a 'good news, bad news' employment picture for West Virginia. The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce has crunched the data from online postings for its new study of U.S. job trends.

Lead author Tony Carnevale says during the recession, about two-million jobs were posted and now, he says it's closer to five-million. But the report says West Virginia is lagging in jobs for college graduates, and the state risks getting locked into a less competitive workforce that, compared to other states, lacks education.

"You've got something of a self-perpetuating problem," says Carnevale. "You've got relatively low-wage, low-skill jobs and that's the labor force that you keep, because that's the labor force that's being hired."

Carnevale says the research found that nationally, even many of the best sales jobs now require technical training.

"Two-thirds of sales reps are now people with college degrees," he says. "Half, roughly, are selling medical or industrial technology. You're selling to experts, you've got to be one."

The report says across the country, many of the best jobs require specialized technical degrees. So Carnevale says students need to consider their college major as carefully as they consider any other facet of their future employment.

"What you make really does depend on what you take," says Carnevale. "It matters less and less where you go to college. Going and getting a degree is important, but know what the job prospects are for different majors."

The study found only about one-third of the job listings in West Virginia are for college graduates while in other states, it's about two thirds.


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