Manpower findings

I began my search on Manpower by searching jobs in Madison. Since it’s such a big city, I wasn’t too surprised by the large amount of job listings. Many of them appeared to be permanent positions, but some were contract as well. By perusing the front page of results, I’d say that it showed about half being manufacturing jobs, while the other half had to do with basic business type things. The manual labor jobs didn’t look like they needed much technological knowledge, but the ones that had to do with business needed to know basic computer skills like typing and being able to create documents using most of the Microsoft Office software. The majority of them looked like good jobs. They paid much higher than the minimum wage, and many of them said that there was little training necessary before you could start.

My hometown is too small to come up on their drop down menu, so I used the closest one to me, which was New Richmond, WI. SO. MANY. MANUFACTURING JOBS. Most of them seemed like they were contract jobs that didn’t require much knowledge about technology. I’m fairly certain that a large manufacturer of medical supplies just set down roots in New Richmond within the past year, so it’s no surprise that they’re still getting settled in. I don’t think that these are necessarily bad jobs, but they also wouldn’t be my first pick if I had other options.

My final search was for Rice Lake, Wisconsin, because I plan on moving back up to the big north woods after college to work with some of their smaller school districts on updating their speech therapy programs. There was quite the wide array of jobs available here. There were a couple engineering positions, an electrician, a receptionist/administrative assistant, and a cheese maker. Each of the jobs listed is going to need some knowledge of technology, but each is going to utilize a very different kind of technology. I’d say that these are all pretty good jobs to have, and almost all of them were permanent positions and not contracts. Who WOULDN’T want the title of cheese maker?