Top 10 Jobs & Businesses in Sacramento, California

An entertaining TV commercial for California ends with the state's First Lady, Maria Shriver and her husband, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he asks, "What are you waiting for? Come on over."

California capital Sacramento historically provided 8,000 - 10,000 new jobs annually during the first decade of the 2000 and in 2012, usually 13,000 - 15,000 job openings.

The Top 10 High Demand Jobs include the following, according to Internet-wide job listings for Sacramento gathered on Indeed.com and Simplyhired.com during January 2012 - March 2012:

1. Registered Nurses (RNs)
2. Engineers, various fields
3. Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists
4. Oil & Gas Industry Jobs
5. Associate Governmental Program Analysts
6. Office Technicians
7. Staff Services Analysts
8. Staff Services Managers
9. Pharmacy Technicians
10. Entry Level Retail Clerks & Customer Service Staff

Additional High Demand Jobs

1. Salespeople
2. Assistant Store Managers
3. Staff Information Systems Analysts
4. Pharmacy Interns
5. Shift Supervisors
6. Crew People at casual dining shops and some retail establishments

Sacramento has experienced a high demand for registered nurses yearly and this is a good opportunity for RNs to travel to Sacramento through Travel Nursing, which provides higher than usual wages and several additional benefits.

Other individuals interested in healthcare careers can enroll in a college in the Sacramento Area and earn an RN in two years and a BSN in three or four years. These students may begin working in some aspect of nursing before graduation.

An interesting aspect to the need for approximately 600 additional K-12 teachers in Sacramento per year is the advance of online education and the need for teachers that can instruct pupils over the Internet with a variety of technology for companies such as Knowledge Learning in the Sacramento area.

The State of California expects the following occupational titles to fall into the Top 10 fastest increasing jobs by percentage increase through 2016 (reference:http://www.labormarketinfo. edd.ca.gov).

1. Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts
2. Personal and Home Care Aides
3. Computer Software Engineers, Applications
4. Graduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) - (at graduates schools)
5. Agricultural Sciences Teachers - college level
6. Business Teachers - college level
7. Vocational Education Teachers - college level
8. Health Specialties Teachers - college level
9. Pharmacy Technicians
10. Veterinary Techs

The largest single employer in the Sacramento Area is the California Air Resources Board, concerned with air quality enhancement and green industry development. The environment and renewable energy sources are the number one priorities of this important green state agency.

Also among the largest employers in Sacramento are the County Water Quality office and the State Water Resource Department.

Sacramento is dedicated to greener living with clean air and water, greener industries of all sorts, and particularly in the area of offering green collar jobs.

Innovation in Green Industry

Area water treatment plants have begun examining an all-natural water filtration system since the late 1990s in California and reported on Public Television in various markets. This system is based in a long series of large green plants that live in water-filled troughs through which waste water for treatment is passed through their roots in a flowing stream. At the end of the line of beautiful, tall plants, the water is crystal clear and ready to drink. Not one chemical is used in the process. Such innovations will maintain and create green jobs throughout the 21st Century in Sacramento city and county and are a model for the nation.

D-Q University is a school founded by Native American, Mexican-related and similar Metiz peoples for the good of all indigenous peoples.

The letter D represents the Name of the Great Peacemaker, Denagawida. He encouraged the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Hodenoshone. His full name s spoken or written only in a religious ceremonial use, much as G_d is written by some of the Jewish faith out of respect, rather than to use the entire word and reduce the most high to a word in doing so.

The Q is for the great Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec prophet of wisdom, self-discipline, and self-mastery.

Thus, D-Q University carries a pround belief, mission, and philosophy in service to indigenous peoples and the local community at large.

Native American Studies Program Minor (21 hours) 

• Introduction to Native American Studies
• Native American Experience
• Native American Sovereignty and U.S. Laws 

American Indians, Film and Popular Culture

(Electives approved by Native American Studies Program Director.)

Sacramento Native American Nations, Bands, and Rancherias. 

• Angels Camp Museum
• The Bernhard Museum Complex
• Calaveras Big Trees Park
• California Caverns
• The California Military Museum
• California State History Museum
• California State Indian Museum
• California State Mining and Mineral Museum
• California State Railroad Museum
• Empire Mine State Park
• Gold Country Museum
• Hangtown's Gold Bug Mine
• Marshall Gold Discovery Park

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• American River College
• Cosumnes River College
• Sacramento City College
• Sierra College
• California State University at Sacramento
• CSUS - Regional and Continuing Education
• University of California at Davis
• UC Davis - University Extension
• UC Davis - School of Law
• McGeorge School of Law
• University of San Francisco
• University of Southern California

Additional Local Schools:

• Business And Technology Training Institute
• Cal-trade Welding School
• Capital Bible College
• Cet-sacramento
• Charles A. Jones Skills And Business Education Center
• Compuvista Business Institute
• Elite Progressive School Of Cosmetology
• Federico Beauty Institute
• Integrative Therapy School
• Lincoln Law School Of Sacramento
• Los Rios Community College District Office
• Maric College-sacramento Campus
• Moler Barber College
• MTI College
• Northwestern California University School Of Law
• Precision Technical Institute
• Professional School Of Psychology
• Sacramento City College
• The Union Institute
• Travel And Tourism Institute
• Trinity Life Bible College
• Truck Driving Academy
• University Of Northern Ca-lorenzo Patino Sch Law
• University Of Phoenix-sacramento Valley Campus
• Western Career College

• Sacramento County Airport System - Sacramento International, Executive and Mather airports
• Sacramento Regional Transit Light Rail
• AMTRAK
• Sacramento Regional Transit
• Yolobus
• Roseville Transit Communter Buses
• Two types of Paratransit transportation, rural and city, are available to the physically challenged
• Greyhound Buslines
• Several Taxi Companies