Target job-recruitment strategies to greatest needs

Target job-recruitment strategies to greatest needs

Many people ask us which industries create “white-collar” jobs, believed to be clean and high-paying, and which industries create “blue-collar” jobs, believed to be lower paying and associated with dirtier manufacturing processes.The truth is, most industries create, or at least indirectly stimulate, both. We estimate that in Northern Colorado, approximately 41 percent of workers are blue-collar, 40 percent are white-collar, and 19 percent are government, which includes both.
In manufacturing, approximately 22 percent of employees are machine operators, 14 percent are managers, 13 percent are secretaries and records processing, 6 percent are engineers, 6…