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Best and Worst Cities to Find a Job

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    CareerBliss Chief Happiness Officer Heidi Golledge on where to move to improve your job search.

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I'm finding a job where ever you land but according to a new study from career bless their.

Factors to consider when determining what market is most difficult to find a job the report takes a look at unemployment trends as well as overall employee happiness.

And salary to compile a list that is the best and worst cities in the country to get a -- So did -- -- -- the bottom of the list joining me now it's career bush.

He's happy -- officer Heidi Collins Heidi welcome to the show she packing his officers do a lot of these have that does that pay well.

I think not many companies have bad but I started out as CEO and I really is our focus should be to make people happy -- became -- happiness this -- you are you more profitable here -- -- -- employees are are happy you have data to back that up.

It's -- indicates because your turn -- lower you have to do.

Less training says the happy and make your employees the -- your company will do OK so the criteria that you look at because I'm kind of joking about -- -- you have ten key factors that make a lot of sense like work life balance.

One's relationship with his -- -- crossing co workers.

Work environment job resource is compensation so -- in there.

And job control over the work performed on a daily basis what does that last -- you is that how much work you do where the kinda work.

It's more about the kind of work and then how much micromanagement really happens to you from your upper management.

Did they -- -- -- -- best work where they constantly monitoring your work.

And can you be -- network -- most companies that have really unhappy employees.

Don't allow their employees to be creative at all OK so let's get to the list.

Going down the worst -- and number five from the bottom I should say Allentown.

Four was which -- top.

Three was buffalo would find in these cities that made him terrible places to be eight and work.

What did you see is that we found that it's there's a lot of factors that we don't just look at salary we look at.

You know are they truly happy with the management how are they treated it where.

We also noticed that people fill the less happy if the weather is typically -- The more sunshine that is the more happy there even network and a course -- -- as well that we found over all of these cities are not faster and it did work life.

Balance act I was shocked to see Boulder, Colorado.

At the top that list -- I think the Boulder, Colorado -- a place you know where people are outdoors he would healthy and positive and -- didn't seem like some of the other one sort of maybe meets avenue don't want it tracked targeted -- I got -- -- Carefully when you're -- football deriving those price looking at beautiful -- it's right now how people be miserable in boulder.

Actually it's a great question we -- down on that data and we found that.

That's because a lot of people actually want to move to Bulgaria and when they get there -- just not enough jobs for them so then they become an unhappy because they're either unemployed or underemployed.

Sip of the chances of getting a new great job in -- we are truly happy -- -- is growing it's very slim but the chances of big sounds like gain.

It a little betting the best city on your survey was Los Angeles I was shocked about that I'm from -- couldn't -- traffic is terrible all I mean it's.

How Los Angeles be the best city to find a job.

Yeah and back to -- and move your show from New York to LA we're ready to have you visit that city after that we can't.

But come on -- -- what we found is that relieved that unemployment is heading down and says even though there's a bit more taxes man California.

People who really happy at -- there's a lot of stuff for young professionals to do afterward.

But then while they're working if -- -- they get to be created their salaries -- did step.

It's really a boom time right now for LA where Heidi thanks for coming -- good staff.

-- thank you so much stake at.

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