With information from the recruiting firm, Ajilon Professional Staffing,
Forbes lists Minneapolis as the best U.S. city for job-seekers. Austin, Texas, comes next.
Jodi Chavez, senior vice president of Ajilon, says in the story that Minneapolis has the lowest unemployment rate of all the cities that were studied.
It has to do with its large companies in financial services, health care, retail and manufacturing.
To get the results, Ajilon also studied the diversity of industries, cost of living, company size and education levels, the piece states.
For example, several large medical device manufacturers in the metro area continued adding jobs even amid the economic downturn. Additionally, the city now has a "demand for highly specialized positions like specialty tax, IT audit or compliance-related jobs that were not available during the recession," she says in the story.
High quality of life is also a factor. The market is "in somewhat of a sweet spot of offering jobs with relatively high pay while having a low cost of living."
Source: Forbes