Help Wanted: The North Dakota Boom
27th October 2011
In the remote, windswept state of North Dakota, job fairs often bustle with more recruiters than potential workers. The North Dakota unemployment rate hasn’t risen above five percent since 1987. In the state’s oil country, unemployment hovers at around two percent, and pretty much everyone who wants a job—as long as they are old enough and not incarcerated—is employed. North Dakota has either tied for or had the lowest unemployment in the country since 2008.
I’m sure they would even take people from Michigan.
October 27th, 2011 at 12:20
Be sure to take along a supply of Chapstick. It’s extremely cold and dry. I did some work there years back when the company I worked for was involved with a synfuels project. Nice people, though they talk a bit like in the movie “Fargo”.