While the overall job market was crippled by the effects of the Great Recession, some sectors never stopped hiring.
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Not so long ago, you may recall, plenty of employers were willing to foot the bill for moving expenses, and maybe even compensate you for a loss on your house, if you pulled up stakes to accept a job in a different locale.
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In a move to measure its workforce not too long ago, Nationwide Insurance surveyed its 36,000 employees at the time. Its CEO was in for a shock. The single largest employment category had nothing to do with insurance and was instead “technology.” The story is told by Brian Fitzgerald, executive director of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), to dramatize the transformation of the U.S. workforce. At Nationwide, an entire upper tier of computer scientists had to be brought in from India because the company didn’t have enough in Ohio. “You can be selling insurance or manufacturing cars,” Fitzgerald says, “but almost every American corporation has been turned into a technology operation.”
