Top 10 Hot Jobs in Central Michigan

Job growth in Central Michigan from 2006 - 2016 is forcecast at approximately a 7% increase and from 2006 to autumn 2008, that increase was sustained in the four counties of Gratiot, Ionia, Isabella, and Montcalm. Of the four, Montcalm has offered a greatest number of job openings over the other three and has reduced its unemployment rate the furthest. However, Isabella County contributes a large chunk of revenue to county, state, and federal servces.

The greatest numbers of new jobs to be added are found in the

Top 10 Hot Jobs in Central Michigan

1. Education/Training & Library - 1300 jobs
2. Healthcare - Registered Nurses (RNs)
3. Home Health Aides (HHAs), Nursing Aides and Attendants
4. Medical Assistants
5. College-Level Health Specialties Teachers
6. Sales - Salespeople, counter/sales clerks, CSRs, sales supervisors - 1000 jobs
7. Management fields, primarily General managers, Food Service managers, and Operations managers in a number of industry sectors
8. All lines of Food Prep and Serving
9. Janitors, Landscape Techs & Groundskeepers
10. Personal Care & Service Occupations

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Isabell County

• Central Michigan University - Central Michigan Chippewas (sports)
• Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College

Gratiot County

• Alma College - founded by Presbyterian Synod of Michigan

Ionia County

• The Heartland Institute of Technology
• Michigan Technical Education Center, M-TEC
• Montcalm Community College - Ionia Branch

Race Tracks

• Mount Pleasant Meadows - Horse Track
• Mount Pleasant Speedway
• CrystalMotorSpeedway.com

Other

• Regional Soaring Championships - Glider event in Ionia County
• Ionia County Fair - Largest America Fair free-of-charge

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Mount Pleasant, Michigan includes four smaller native bands, including the Saginaw, Black River, and Swan Creek Ojibwe. Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort is located in Mt. Pleasant with their reservation and the grounds of the resort are large enough that a shuttle bus is required to transport visitors to and from the parking lots. My visits to the casino have been interesting and I have found the visitors and staff friendly. Internationally well known entertainers play the resort weekly.

This native nation is Isabella County's largest employer, providing more than $64,000,000 to state and federal services income every year. The nation also provides part or all of Isabella County with police & fire protection, an array of social and health services, housing, and effective economic development initiatives to boost the local economy.

The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways is a business comprising another part of the Saginaw Chippewa Nation economic contribution. The also nation helps sponsor the annual Michigan Indian Family Olympics.

The native nation supports alternative energy in Central Michigan through wind & solar power and "clean coal" processes.

The SagChip nation's Job Hotline is 989-775-0062.

The Casino Resort Jobs are at EMPLOYMENT, where the listings included several pages of open positions, 5-6 per page.

• Central Michigan University is the second largest employers in the county, followed by
• Central Michigan Community Hospital, and
• Mt. Pleasant Public Schools

Click Jobster Employment Listings for Isabella County.

The unemployment rate in Montcalm County continued to decreased in 2008, indicating the existence of unfilled jobs in light of the job growth continuing at the same time. Decreasing by 1.2% (-), this country's economic health is growing faster than then other four in Central Michigan.

• The largest Industrial Employer in this county is agriculture in the Potato Industry, helping to make the US the #3 potato grower in the world, following behind Russia and Poland. Michigan white potatoes are well known across the nation, although they originated in South America in the Andes Mountains among Aymaya and Inca indigenes.
• United Solar Ovonic, a manufacturer of solar panels, located in Auburn Hills added 200 job openings and plans to add more through 2016.
• Spectrum Health United Memorial (Health)
• Carson City Correctional Facility (Government)
• Greenville Public Schools (Government/Education)

Gratiot County

Slogon: Great Things in the Palm of Your Hand.

The largest sector of employed workers come form Education and Social Services. The largest county employers are;

• Gratiot Medical Center - United Michigan Health (Hospitals)
• Michigan Correctional Facility (Government)
• Alma College (Education)
• Alma Products - OEM motor vehicle parts, accessories & rebuilding
• Pain Management Network Hospitals

In addition, St. Louis MI, the geographic center of the lower, mitten portion of the state, has invested in revitalizing its downtown area for new business, new jobs, and an increase in tourism and hospitality dollars. The town is active in Alternative Energy, creating the Great Lakes Energy Research Park on the site of the old Total Petroleum company in nearby Alma. It replaces an oil refinery with a multi-billion dollar clean coal facility and others.

Ionia County

• Meridian Automotive Systems (Mfg)
• Ionia Public Schools & Lakewood Public Schools
• Ionia County Memorial Hospital
• Brown Corporation of Ionia - Automotive stampings

Agriculture also contributes substantially to this county's economy with its 200,000 acres of crops producing land. Ionia is home to several successful egg and poultry farms and frozen food plants.