The Local Job Boom !!!

Companies have enjoyed a productivity boom that allowed them to employ less and less people and stifle wages. That trend seems to be over. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 33 percent more people are quitting than in 2003, and half a million new positions have opened since last summer...

An unusual convergence of economic factors has made this moment the best time to look for a job since the most dizzying days of the dotcom boom.

The first, most telling piece of evidence: The number of workers who are delivering take-this-job-and-shove-it speeches and bailing for more rewarding, less spirit-crushing work is at a five-year high.

In sector after sector, from health care to advertising to retail to accounting to computer and Internet, pent-up demand for workers is now boiling over, strengthening employees' hands -- and emboldening them to jump ship...

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