{"id":3469,"date":"2015-04-14T19:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2015-04-14T19:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:54:33","slug":"report-almost-half-of-tx-online-job-ads-require-college-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Report: Almost Half of TX Online Job Ads Require College Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3470\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3470\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45283-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Employers are increasingly posting ads online to fill job openings. A new report says 48 percent of all online job listings in Texas are seeking college graduates. Photo: Kit\/Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45283-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45283-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45283-1-1-405x304.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45283-1-1-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employers are increasingly posting ads online to fill job openings. A new report says 48 percent of all online job listings in Texas are seeking college graduates. Photo: Kit\/Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>by Eric Galatas\/TNS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Texas has the 10th best online labor market in the nation for college graduates, according to a new report from Georgetown University\u2019s Center on Education and the Workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Using job ads posted online, the report ranks states by the number of jobs per college-educated worker overall, and within specific career fields.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Carnevale, the report\u2019s lead author and the center\u2019s director, says the large number of STEM related job listings &#8211; science, technology, engineering and math &#8211; means degrees in these areas are assets for job seekers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe STEM jobs are very powerfully represented, as are jobs in business, education jobs, health care jobs &#8211; are the four categories that tend to dominate the employer job ads,\u201d he points out. \u201cThis is data from the horse\u2019s mouth &#8211; this is the employers telling us what they\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report says 60 to 70 percent of all job openings are advertised online. The top occupations advertised in Texas are for software and app developers, computer-related positions, and registered nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Carnevale adds that jobs posted online may be disproportionately aimed at college graduates because they are more likely to own personal computers and have access to the Internet at home. He says 48 percent of all online job listings in Texas are seeking degree-holders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it matters less and less where you go to college, first of all,\u201d he stresses. \u201cYou need to understand that going and getting a degree is important, but that it behooves people to know what the job prospects are for different majors. What you make really does depend on what you take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report found that 32 percent of online ads in Texas are for managerial and professional jobs and one-third are posted by employers in the professional and business sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Carnavale notes that job candidates who search online also find jobs 25 percent faster than those who do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Galatas\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Texas has the 10th best online labor market in the nation for college graduates, according to a new report from Georgetown University\u2019s Center on Education and the Workforce. Using job ads posted online, the report ranks states by the number of jobs per college-educated worker overall, and within specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}