Senator Lanza Announces Nearly 100k Jobs Available Now on Jobs Express

Senator Andrew Lanza today announced that more than 96,000 jobs are currently available and listed on the State’s Jobs Express website (www.jobs.ny.gov). The site sorts thousands of jobs by region and occupation, and also allows users to search jobs based on zip code and travel distance.

New businesses and job listings are added every day. Throughout the month of April 2014, there were more than 73,000 new job openings listed on Jobs Express – a 22 percent increase from April 2013 – and more than 78,000 unique website visitors. More than 7,100 businesses posted a new job order on the site in April 2014. Businesses using the site fulfilled nearly 55,000 job orders in April 2014.

The occupational categories with the most jobs listed in April 2014 included: Sales and Related, Office Clerical and Secretarial, Management, Computer and Mathematical, and Healthcare Practitioner and Technical.

A regional breakdown of the number of available positions listed on Jobs Express as of June 3, 2014 is as follows: 

Capital Region 7,250

Central NY 5,550

Finger Lakes 8,000

Hudson Valley 10,050

Long Island 10,300

Mohawk Valley 2,400

New York City 37,500

North Country 2,100

Southern Tier 4,550

Western NY 8,600

Statewide Total 96,300

Job seekers can find their nearest Career Center at: www.labor.ny.gov/career-center-locator.

Employers interested in listing their jobs should visit: www.labor.ny.gov/hire.