Career Opportunity with UBS

UBS, a global financial services firm, is recruiting for their 18-month rotational Graduate Training Program. This on-the-job training is designed to develop management and professional skills. Upon completion of the program, UBS will work with employees to find the most suitable role for the employee and the organization. Although UBS is a financial services firm, this offer is not targeted to finance students; UBS is anxious to recruit students from all business disciplines.

Basic requirements: Candidates must have completed or expect to complete a four-year bachelor’s degree or MBA degree between December 2013 and May 2014 and carry a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.2.

Visit www.ubs.com to research the company and potential career opportunities. Interested students should forward resumes to Laura Buckner, laura.buckner@mtsu.edu. Interviews will be conducted early in February.

Updated Employment Data from BERC

http://mtsu.edu/berc

Employment Indicators

• Tennessee unemployment rate fell to 7.6% in Nov., down from 8.2% in Oct. and 8.7% a year ago. Rising employment pushed the unemployment rate lower.
• Seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment for Tennessee rose again in Nov. to the highest level this year and is 1.0% higher over the year, up by 25,800 jobs. All but 3 metro areas are gaining jobs over the year, led by Clarksville and Jackson MSAs. 
• See graphs at Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery.

Employment Growth by Industry

Heat tables and summary tables

• Chattanooga MSA
• Clarksville MSA
• Cleveland MSA
• Jackson MSA
• Johnson City MSA
• Kingsport-Bristol MSA
• Knoxville MSA
• Memphis MSA
• Morristown MSA
• Nashville MSA
• Tennessee

[http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/tacir/tennesseejobs.html]

Best-Paying College Majors for Women

Information Sciences and Business Economics make Forbes Top 10 List:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/11/28/the-10-best-paying-college-majors-for-women/

Talk to MTSU's departments of Computer Information Systems or Economics and Finance for more information. Jones College advisors can assist you.

Employment Growth by Industry

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/tacir/tennesseejobs.html 

Employment by industry heat tables and summary tables for the
Tennessee and 10 metropolitan statistical areas through July:

• Chattanooga MSA
• Clarksville MSA
• Cleveland MSA
• Jackson MSA
• Johnson City MSA
• Kingsport-Bristol MSA
• Knoxville MSA
• Memphis MSA
• Morristown MSA
• Nashville MSA
• Tennessee

Business Grads Have Most Positive Job Outlook

"Business graduates have the most positive outlook through 2017 because those with business degrees are most likely to work in industries where above average job and wage growth are expected, according to a report from industry analysis firm IBISWorld, MSNBC reports." [Read more at Memphis Business Journal and MSNBC.]

Comparison of Tennesseans' Income Based on Education

How much difference does a college degree make to an average Tennessean's income? Find out in this table: American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates [pdf] .

It's just one of many articles in Tennessee's Business: Job Creation [contents].

Features include:

• "Business Creations and Expansions, 2009,"
  an overview of the latest data and comparison to the 2001-2002 recession, by Tennessee State Data Center Director Randy Gustafson
• "Job Creation: What Really Works?"
  by David Hayes, MTSU Department of Economics and Finance adjunct faculty and Tennessee Workforce Development Board member

and more:

• Tennessee State Small Business Development Center's
  2011 results
• Tennessee green investments,
  an economic impact study on selected summarized by BERC Associate Director Murat Arik
• Tracking the state's economic recovery
  by staff of MTSU's Business and Economic Research Center and the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• State job creation initiatives, an overview

plus:

• American Community Survey 1-year employment estimates in pdf format

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Opry Mills to Benefit Jobless Rate

http://tinyurl.com/3e5v3l5
From the Tennessean: "The dramatic impact here of Opry Mills' reopening would be sparked because the 3,000 new jobs would end up putting an additional 1,500 people to work through indirect jobs, meaning a total of 4,500 jobs pumped into the labor market, said Arik, associate director of the Business and Economic Research Center at MTSU."

Job Heat Charts Updated

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/tacir/tacir.html

Through Feb. 2011: Employment growth by industry for Tennessee and 10 MSAs

Job Growth and Decline by Industry

For Tennessee and 10 MSAs:

http://tinyurl.com/4mbwfaz
http://tinyurl.com/48ocbwl

New heat tables

• for Tennessee
• for 10 MSAs

Rapidly Changing Job Market Brings Hopes, Fears

From the Tennessean: Murat Arik, associate director of the Business and Economic Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University, said some manufacturing jobs soon will be created in Tennessee as Volkswagen starts up in Chattanooga and Hemlock Semiconductor Group gets under way in Clarksville. [more]