It's understandable that you may be moving to a new city if you've had to hire a bankruptcy attorney. Los Angeles can be an expensive place and not everyone's dreams come true there. Santa Clarita, California, however, is much more down-to-earth in terms of prospects. This means that although you will probably never become a multi-millionaire here, you do stand a decent chance of finding a job and starting a productive career. For newcomers to the city, here are some ideas on where to start looking for a job.
For Men
The most common industry for men in Santa Clarita is construction, which includes such jobs as carpentry, plumbing, unskilled labor, and the operation of vacuum trucks or backhoes. The next most common is professional and scientific services. This broad category includes everything from top company executives to pencil pushers and sales managers. Other top job sectors for males are public administration, the film industry, education, and tourism and hospitality. So if you used to work for a nutrient management services company in an office position or have experience with the technical or support aspects of film, you may do very well.
For Women
As you would expect, fewer women are interested in industry careers like construction or working in a heatshrink sleeving factory. Women in Santa Clarita prefer education positions over everything else, closely followed by health care careers in nursing, medicine, pharmacy, or home care assistance. Finance and insurance is another of their top job sectors, followed by tourism and hospitality, administrative support, and social work. Since many of these careers require computer familiarity and usage, experience in those areas could be helpful, such as a stint doing search engine marketing. Canada's women have similar employment brackets, so if you're coming from there you should find it fairly easy to adjust.
Top Employers
If you're ready to get your boots on the ground and start handing out resumes, you might start with the largest employers in the city, who may have more open positions than smaller firms. They are: Six Flags Magic Mountain (a theme park) Princess Cruises (a major cruise ship line), the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital (a not-for-profit hospital), HR Textron (a defense contractor), the Master's College (a Christian liberal arts school), Specialty Laboratories (a pharmaceutical testing company), Arvato Services (a market research company), the California Institute of the Arts (a fine arts school), Aerospace Dynamics (makers of airplanes and their components), and Fanfare Media Works (a film company).
Your Chances
How likely are you to succeed here? Well, that depends on your training and level of commitment, but even during a recession, the unemployment rate hasn't dropped below 7%. This is more than four points lower than the state average for California.
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