What are the best and worst places to find internships and entry-level jobs?
A recent report by CollegeRecruiter.com revealed the five best and worst states for finding internships and entry-level jobs. The data was gathered from a state-by-state search of the site.
The states with the largest number of internships are: California with 2,152; New York wtih 1,487; Texas with 1,038; Florida with 911 and Illinois with 700. The states with the largest number of entry-level jobs are: California with 11,327; Texas with 8,723; Florida with 6,272; New York with 5,828 and Pennsylvania with 4,857.
The states with the fewest number of internships are: Montana and Wyoming with 14 each; South Dakota with 21; North Dakota with 31 and Idaho with 35. The states with the fewest number of entry-level jobs are: Montana with 200; Wyoming with 209; North Dakota with 215; South Dakota with 258 and Vermont with 251.
Other states that have large numbers of combined available internships and entry-level jobs are: Washington with 1,199; Colorado with 1,192; North Carolina with 2,621 and Ohio with 3,602. The largest metropolitan area with the most combined listings was Washington, D.C. with 9,457.
CollegeRecruiter.com plans to update these lists at the beginning of every month to further help candidates know where opportunities are available.
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March 20th, 2009 at 11:59 am
This would potentially be more useful information if you also looked at the number of jobs per capita for each of these states. For example, California may have the most entry level jobs, but considering the state’s population there are far less jobs per job hunter than in many other states.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Could you please link to the article you are referencing. Great for you that you manage to sneak in a link to “jobs” in every Cheezehead post… but where is the report this article is based on?