“The difficulty becomes that employers in the service industry cannot typically afford to pay a wage that would allow their employees to actually live in fast-growing cities like Frisco….”

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Service-Jobs-Hard-to-Fill-in-Fast-Growing-Frisco-435360743.html

“Taylor Communications in October is expected to start moving nearly 600 workers into an underutilized downtown office tower, which local shops, restaurants and residential property owners hope will be a boon for business.”

Ruiz Foods has the No. 1 frozen Mexican food brand,  El Monterey. It is expanding production and storage facilities in Florence Country, South Carolina, requiring the addition of over 700 jobs.

http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/35861977/ruiz-foods-expansion-bringing-over-700-jobs-to-florence-county

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer manufactures smartphones and other products for companies like Apple. The investment could add up to 50,000 new jobs in the US, across as many as three states.

http://www.constructiondive.com/news/taiwanese-tech-giant-foxconn-considering-10b-us-manufacturing-investment/445711/

The recent report from Ball State University maps the risk of automation and offshoring job losses at the county level in the United States. The report suggests that “roughly one in four American jobs, across the income and educational spectrum, are at risk of foreign competition in the coming years. Much more critically, approximately half of the jobs are at risk for automation”

http://projects.cberdata.org/reports/Vulnerability-Exec-20170619.pdf

The nature of work is changing, fast, hastened by artificial intelligence and robotic mechanization.  So what types of work seems destined to outlast the robot revolution?

This article below lists 7 jobs that will still require humans….hands on jobs (like massage of course) but also health care and civil engineering.

http://nypost.com/2017/06/24/7-jobs-robots-cant-steal-from-you/

Quantum lists Best Places To Work by company size: small, medium and large.

Here are the lists:

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2017/06/23/best-places-to-work-2017-the-extra-large-companies.html?ana=e_phil_bn&u=37NZpbc5sdgby6tKl6XYyQ05829fc8&t=1498234144&j=78435241

Charles Schwab is building a new campus in Westlake Texas that could eventually house more than than the 4000 employees in the Denver location.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2017/06/21/financial-giant-charles-schwab-to-begin-work-on.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

McDonalds is using social media, including Snapchat, to try to reach young job seekers.

Here’s the link!