Best 100 Cities in America - Top 10 Hot Jobs in Loveland and Arvada

Loveland, Colorado stands as the 38th Best Place to Live in America and Arvada is in slot 58 of the Best 100 Places to Live, determined by analysts at CNNMoney.com in 2010. Both growing communities are suburbs of Denver, near to Denver tourist attractions and offer many attractions of their own. Arvada is located closer to Denver and offers the larger number of job opportunities, but both suburbs offer advantages.

The Colorado Gold Rush took over Arvada in the 1850s when the first nuggets were discovered here. The yearly Gold Strike Festival is the city's way of remembering this event and the culture that grew up around gold mining and gold nuggets

Today, Downtown Arvada is entirely registered with the National register of Historic Places fo rits preserved buildings and gold history. The city has adopted arts and culture by opening the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, supporting 3 separate theatesr, 2 full floors of galleries, a popular museum, art studios, and classrooms for classes and seminars.

The largest proportion of jobs available within 25 miles of the center of Arvada are located in Denver, Aurora, and Englewood CO as well as in Arvada.

1. Assistant Managers
2. Salespeople
3. General Managers
4. Customer Service and Support Representatives
5. Project Managers
6. Account Executives
7. Shift Managers
8. Registered Nurses (RNs)
9. Sales Representatives
10. Occupational Therapists

Loveland offers a growing cultural environment outside Denver, complementing the natural beauty of the region. Outdoor art displays in Loveland create an enjoyable and sophisticated living experience, while drawing many visitors annually. Approximately an hour's transit from Boulder, Loveland hosts the Loveland Sculpture Invitational. This is a festival event held every year for 450 or more artists from many countries as well as USA, Canada, and the Americas. Here, artists are able to show their work and sell their art pieces. Loveland does an admirable job of combining fine arts and natural wonders.

Other outdoor activities and events are popular in Loveland as well. Sports and recreation include golfing, a good system of biking and hiking trails, a far ranging system of parks, and a number of sports arenas. Wildlife refuges are nearby, offering opportunities for photography and birding as well as observing other forms of wildlife and native plants.

The bulk of the open jobs listings around the Loveland CO area are found in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, and Loveland. However, some workers live in Loveland and commute an hour or so to Boulder or to Denver.  

1. Registered Nurses (RNs)
2. Salespeople
3. Retail Customer Service and Support Reps
4. Store Managers and Assistant Managers
5. Physical Therapists
6. General Managers
7. Occupational Therapists
8. Retail Sales Representatives
9. Software Engineers
10. Restaurant Managers

Additional High Demand Jobs

1. Financial Adisors
2. Instructors - Open Pool
3. Financial Advisors 
   

Colorado and the US Federal Government Department of Labor have already published expected fast-growing job titles expected ti increases in highest numbers and by highest percentages from 2009 - 2019. At this writing, we are in the 4th QTR of 2010 and we can see how actual job listings compare with these official projections so far This is less than 2 years into the projection decade. Let's have a look.

Several job titles are within the Top 10 in both number and percentage of increase and are in BOLD type below. these are all involved in Food Service, Health, and IT - specifically, software.

We can compare October job listings for matches in the top categorizes of Hot Jobs expected officially by state and federal analysts. Read on...

1. Food Service Staff that do both Prep and Serving
2. Registered Nurses (RNs) - Includes the lucrative field of Travel Nurses and Travel Medicine
3. Waitstaff - Waiters and Waitresses in full service and casual dining.
4. Customer Service (and Support) Representatives
5. Un-categorized or Misc. Business Operations Specialists
6. Computer Software Engineers - especially in Applications Software
7. Retail Salespersons
8. Restaurant Cooks
9. Personal and Home Care Aides
10. Janitors and Cleaners other than Housekeepers

1. Physical Therapists
   
2. Registered Nurse (RN)
3. Salespeople
4. Occupational Therapists
5. Assistant Managers
6. Banquet Servers - some are Prep and Serve
   
7. Customer Service and/or Support Reps
8. Project Managers
9. General Managers
10. Software Engineers

Half (50%) of the Top 10 Hot Jobs in Colorado are already matching the official Employment Projections above.

Over 81,000 jobs are listed across the Internet for Colorado, largely clustered in the Denver and Boulder Metropolitan Area, as evident in the listings for Arvada and Loveland, seen above. any of the Top Jobs (openings and increases) for these suburbs match the State profile of job openings and government employment projections. It will be interesting to watch the progress in these areas through 2019 and afterward.