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One of the most important metrics in market research and due diligence is job/employment growth, and in this video James shows you exactly how to obtain that information. Via the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and bls.gov, James teaches you how to get the unemployment rate, employment rate, and job growth percentage. You’ll learn how to perform these searches for an individual city, a market, or a state as a whole. James also teaches you how to analyze this information over the past 10 – 15 years to spot trends. Lastly, James provides you another resource, newgeography.com, which can aid you in the process of obtaining job and employment growth information.
In this video you’ll learn:
- Why job/employment growth is an important metric in due diligence
- How to obtain job/employment growth information via the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- How to obtain this information for a city, market area, or state
- How to find unemployment and employment rates
- How to find the history of a city’s, market’s, or state’s unemployment and employment rates over time
- How to use another resource in obtaining this data, newgeography.com
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