Top 15 Hot Jobs in Milton MA - Healthcare, Insurance and IT

At least 57, 000+ job listings were available online in the autumn of 2009 within 25 miles of city center for Milton, Massachusetts. At the end of June 2010, the figure was 78,000 jobs. Additional jobs are available offline with recruiters and employers that advertise elsewhere.

The Milton Job Market is hot. In, the numbers of job listings online increased by 102%, or more than double. In January 2010, another increase proceeded through June 2010 with expectations to continue several years. High speed rail service improvements facilitate such growth with easier, faster transport of workers and business owners.

The Healthcare Industry is a hot job producing concern int his market and one that will continue to expand to at least through 2020. As job listings in this area increase, Travel Nursing that incorporates more and more categories of health related professions will become vitally important in offering higher wages, relocation/mortgage expenses, and benefits to workers that are willing to relocate for 12 weeks to a year in this busy region.

Historically, this region is even more important in healthcare, considering the fact that in the 1920s, senior citizens protested and marched against a nearby Boston hospital over the high cost of health care and demanded reforms, which were implemented.

Money Magazine in 2009 featured Milton as the 5th Best Place to Live in America. The town moved up from 7th place among the Top 10 in 2007.

Located just under 10 miles south from Boston on I-93, Milton is a quickly growing suburb with access to equal numbers of jobs within a 25-mile radius equivalent to Boston itself. Within even just 5 miles of Milton are over 16,000 job listings.

In addition to  this, the Boston area was allocated nearly $5,000,000 in ARRA fuding from the federal government.

Major Nearby Job Locations:

Boston, Braintree. Quincy. Chestnut Hill. Dorchester, MA Milton, North Milton. Jamaica Plain. Dedham. West Roxbury. Roslindale. Hyde Park. Mattapan. Canton, and others.

• Massachusetts General Hospital - Largest employer in Boston.
• IBM
• Boston University - 6th largest employer in Boston.
• Harvard University - 2nd largest employer in Cambridge.
• Children's Hospital Boston - 3rd largest employer.
• Cybercoders
• Caritas Christi Health Care Systems
• Deloitte
• Brigham and Women's Hospital - 2nd largest employer.
• Genzyme
• Northeastern University
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Vertex Pharmaceuticals
• Biogen Idec
• Caritas Christi Health Care
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - largest employer in Cambridge.
• Liberty Mutual Group - Insurance and Financial Products - 4th largest mployer in Boston.
• Boston Public Schools
• Milton Hospital
• Curry College - Milton

1. Network Systems and IT Administrators
2. Home Health Aides
3. Computer Software Engineers, all
4. Veterinary Techs
5. Biochemists and Biophysicists
6. Veterinarians
7. Pharmacy Technicians
8. Social Services and Human Services Assistants
9. Physical Therapy Assistants
10. Media Artists/Animators - many of these could be in sciences and medicine.
11. Microbiologists and Biotechnologists
12. Health Educators - health, medical, health promotion education.
13. Professionals in Mental Health and Substance Abuse
14. Medical Assistants
15. Medical Scientists

Milton emerged from a very old settlement in Massachusetts dating back to some of the chronologically oldest exploring expeditions to the New World. Milton had been part of another community, Dorchester, before breaking off to develop its own identity. However, Dorchester borders Milton on the North and Hyde Park borders it on the West today.

We know that Massachusetts Bay Colony began in 1620, and Milton followed around 1640 after a grist mill was established near the site in 1634, with Harvard College opening nearby in 1634 as well. Being on the NE Coast of what would become the USA placed Milton and Boston in the center of national foundations and Revolutionary activities. 

Because of the milling business success locally, Milton became well known for chocolate, lumber, breads and crackers around the American Revolution, among other products. For instance, a man called Joshia Bent is said to have created a well received water cracker or hard tack in 1801 in Milton. the Milton Cookie Factory still operates today, The first chocolate factory and the first piano factory in America opened here.

Several buildings in Milton are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and many famous people were born in Milton -- This includes architect Buckminster Fuller and President Bush 41. Famous historical residents include Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, poet TS Elliot, two royal governors of Massachusetts, Walter Baker (Baker's Chocolate), and scores of others. Several museums and war re-enactors' associations are located in this area, commemorating history in Milton and Boston from before the Revolution to the 21st Century.

The following list of colleges, universities, and technical/vocational schools in not exhaustive. Even more schools are available in the area surrounding Milton.

• Anna Maria College
• Bay State College
• Berklee College of Music
• Boston College
• Boston Architectural College
• Boston Baptist College
• Cambridge
• Curry College: Milton Campus
• Eastern Nazarene College
• Emmanuel College
• Gordon College - Boston urban site
• Laboure College
• Massachusetts College of Art
• Massachusets Institute of Technology
• Massasoit Community College
• Pine Manor College
• Quincy College
• Roxbury Community College
• Simmons College
• The Career Institute of American International College‎
• Wentworth Institute of Technology
• Wheelock College