A major concern for many people who are considering relocation to a new city is whether or not they will be able to find a job there. Without a job there will be no money for rent, mortgage payments, food, or any of that useful stuff, so the job hunt should be at the top of your to do list, not finding a box to pack your bench calibrator in. Ideally you'll want to have at least started your search before you arrive, so here's an overview of where you can expect to find work in Lubbock, Texas.
If you've chosen Lubbock at random, you lucked out. Despite the recession currently gripping the nation, dropping the job statistics of cities very near to Lubbock, Lubbock itself has an unemployment rate of only 4.4%, compared to the Texas average of 6.9% and the national average of 10%. So if you and your industrial mixer were looking for a likely place to find a job, this is it.
Are you a man looking for work? In that case, it may help to know what jobs your peers have chosen. Lubbock's male workforce tends to be more spread out than its female workforce, with the top demographic (education) only coming in at 11%. The hands-on cable cutter crew (construction) comes in second at 10%, and accommodation and food services at 8%. This is closely followed by health care at 7% then by public administration and technical services at 5% and 4% respectively.
Women looking for work in Lubbock will most likely gravitate toward the education or health care sectors, since the majority of their peers work in those areas (each retains about 19% of the female workforce). If teaching school or coaching adult hockey camps doesn't appeal to you, accommodation and food services, finance and insurance, social assistance, public administration, and technical services are all popular sectors with women as well.
One extremely popular and profitable economic sector that doesn't show up in these statistics is agriculture, because many who work in this industry are self employed. However, if your resume contains entries like "farm hand" or "tractor operator" rather than "nurse at Home Health Care Burlington," you'll be pleased to know that Lubbock is the largest contiguous cotton growing area on earth, so there are plenty of jobs to be had in that sector if you're a hard worker.
If you're heading out to hand out resumes, the top employers in Lubbock are the city government, the county of Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Convergeys, the Lubbock school district, Covenant Health System, United Supermarkets, AT&T, and the University Medical Center, which represent the health care, education, public administration, technology, and retail sectors.
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