{"id":35237,"date":"2015-01-22T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upstater.com\/?p=35237"},"modified":"2015-01-22T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:36:58","slug":"looking-work-hudson-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley?"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35238\" src=\"http:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/help-wanted-sign-520x305.jpg\" alt=\"help wanted sign\" width=\"520\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/help-wanted-sign-520x305.jpg 520w, https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/help-wanted-sign-200x117.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>\n<p>Need a J-O-B in the Hudson Valley? If you&#8217;re looking for work as a nurse, carpenter, home health aide, mechanic, or medical scientist (but not an epidemiologist), you might be in luck. According to the NYS Department of Labor, those are the Top Five Trending Jobs for 2015 in the region (thanks to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/yorktown-somers\/state-labor-department-announces-top-5-trending-jobs-hudson-valley-region-2015\" target=\"_blank\">Yorktown Patch for hipping us<\/a><\/strong> to this info via the Department of Labor&#8217;s press release). And the pay is not too shabby&#8230;unless you&#8217;re a home health care aide. Here&#8217;s the median salary breakdown:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Registered Nurses ($76,450)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Carpenters ($57,020)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Home Health Aides ($23,390)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics ($43,940)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists ($87,380)<\/p>\n<p>The press release goes on to tout the Dept. of Labor&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labor.ny.gov\/jobs\/regional.shtm\" target=\"_blank\">Jobs Express<\/a><\/strong> for job seekers all over the state looking for job openings, info on local job fairs\/recruitment, career center events, etc. We took a look at the current vacancies for the Hudson Valley and found the most listings in the Sales &amp; Related (over 1000, which is not surprising; that&#8217;s a pretty big and random category), Office\/Clerical (920), Transportation &amp; Material Moving (733), and Computer\/Mathematical (718), Management (681), and Health Care Practitioner\/Consultant (660).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/labor.ny.gov\/stats\/hud\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Another tid-bit<\/a><\/strong> we discovered on the NYS Dept. of Labor: Kingston leads the region in private sector job growth for 2014 (+2.2% over 2013), which is only going to make everyone love Kingston even more.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35239\" src=\"http:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg\" alt=\"more you know\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg 500w, https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know-200x131.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a J-O-B in the Hudson Valley? If you&#8217;re looking for work as a nurse, carpenter, home health aide, mechanic, or medical scientist (but not an epidemiologist), you might be in luck. According to the NYS Department of Labor, those are the Top Five Trending Jobs for 2015 in the region (thanks to the Yorktown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[1064],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley? - Upstater<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley? - Upstater\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Need a J-O-B in the Hudson Valley? If you&#8217;re looking for work as a nurse, carpenter, home health aide, mechanic, or medical scientist (but not an epidemiologist), you might be in luck. According to the NYS Department of Labor, those are the Top Five Trending Jobs for 2015 in the region (thanks to the Yorktown [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Upstater\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Upstater\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-22T18:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-01-22T16:36:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"328\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kandy Harris\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kandy Harris\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kandy Harris\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/person\/53387cd6d241763f2dd57cebc07d200e\"},\"headline\":\"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley?\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-22T18:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-01-22T16:36:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Hudson Valley\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Upstate Living\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/\",\"name\":\"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley? - Upstater\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-22T18:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-01-22T16:36:58+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":328},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/\",\"name\":\"Upstater\",\"description\":\"Hudson Valley Real Estate &amp; Lifestyle\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Upstater\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Upstater_LOGO.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Upstater_LOGO.png\",\"width\":1185,\"height\":244,\"caption\":\"Upstater\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Upstater\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/upstater\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/person\/53387cd6d241763f2dd57cebc07d200e\",\"name\":\"Kandy Harris\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac4d71cc56ea21cf642d157330fed3de?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac4d71cc56ea21cf642d157330fed3de?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kandy Harris\"},\"description\":\"Kandy is a writer and musician\/music teacher living in Saugerties, NY.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/contributors\/kandyharris\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley? - Upstater","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley? - Upstater","og_description":"Need a J-O-B in the Hudson Valley? If you&#8217;re looking for work as a nurse, carpenter, home health aide, mechanic, or medical scientist (but not an epidemiologist), you might be in luck. According to the NYS Department of Labor, those are the Top Five Trending Jobs for 2015 in the region (thanks to the Yorktown [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/","og_site_name":"Upstater","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Upstater\/","article_published_time":"2015-01-22T18:30:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-01-22T16:36:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":328,"url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kandy Harris","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kandy Harris","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/"},"author":{"name":"Kandy Harris","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/person\/53387cd6d241763f2dd57cebc07d200e"},"headline":"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley?","datePublished":"2015-01-22T18:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2015-01-22T16:36:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/"},"wordCount":235,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg","keywords":["Hudson Valley"],"articleSection":["Upstate Living"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/","url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/","name":"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley? - Upstater","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg","datePublished":"2015-01-22T18:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2015-01-22T16:36:58+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/more-you-know.jpg","width":500,"height":328},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/looking-work-hudson-valley\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Looking for Work in the Hudson Valley?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/","name":"Upstater","description":"Hudson Valley Real Estate &amp; Lifestyle","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#organization","name":"Upstater","url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Upstater_LOGO.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Upstater_LOGO.png","width":1185,"height":244,"caption":"Upstater"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Upstater\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/upstater"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/person\/53387cd6d241763f2dd57cebc07d200e","name":"Kandy Harris","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac4d71cc56ea21cf642d157330fed3de?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac4d71cc56ea21cf642d157330fed3de?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Kandy Harris"},"description":"Kandy is a writer and musician\/music teacher living in Saugerties, NY.","url":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/contributors\/kandyharris\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}