Top 15 Hot Jobs on The Nicholasville Hubtrail

Nicholasville is the fastest growing place in Kentucky, reported by Bloomberg BusinessWeek in January 2010. Located in Jessamine County, it is still a small town in the Bluegrass Region along the Kentucky River, where you can view and enjoy the cliffs near the Palisades.

Amid a comfortable small-town lifestyle and ambience, residents and visitors can use Nicholasville as a base for traveling short distances to Louisville and Lexington for big city features. This is Central Kentucky, where agricultural has been part of the economy forever. Cattle and tobacco are giving way to alternative crops these days, though. A growing sector of agri-tourism and wine production is also new, with the first commercial vineyard in the USA here (many people guess it was in California). The huge Kentucky Wine & Vine Fest is held in Nicholasville in the middle of May each year to celebrate this industry, offering an amateur wine competition to encourage new growers. The vineyards and other agricultural installations are surrounded by horse farms and golf courses in the north end of the county and visitors love them all.

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Nicholasville means to keep growing and to sustain its growth momentum through global outreach. Successfully so, they have received a diplomatic visit from India's Dr. Abdul Kalam, which bodes well for international commerce between the city and areas of the Subcontinent.

Already, companies like Alltech, an important international biotechnology company, have constructed headquarters in Nicholasville. Humana, Inc.bases its HQ nearby in Louisville and provides a range of health insurance products and services.

An outstanding downtown development plan continually attracts additional enterprises to town.

The downtown area continues improvment in infrastructure, business development, Historic District, the creation of additional green spaces, and the coming together of a solid community-within-a- community. It is a gem of developing architecture, culture, business, and comfortable, welcoming atmosphere.The Downtown Community Center is an especially good anchor organization. An addtional $1.5 million has been allocated for renewal over 10 months in 2010 - 2011.

The local economy in the area that includes Nicholasville, Louisville, and Lexiington relies heaviiy on Healthcare services, Education, Travel and Tourism and the related retail sales, dining, and accomodations business; and Transportation. Manufacturing make a major contribution as well, although it does not offer as many open jobs as do the service industries.

1. Physical Therapists
2. Occupational Therapists
3. Sales Representatives
4. Cashiers
5. Manager Trainees
6. Customer Service Representatives
7. Assistant Managers
8. Phlebotomists
9. Sales Associates
10. GOOGLE - Enterprise Inside Sales Engineers
11. Physical Therapy Assistants
12. News/Journalism Interns
13. Truck Drivers
14. Registered Nurse (RN) Supervisors
15. Hotels Unlimited - Executive Apprentice Program

1. Humana Inc. - Insurance products and related services.
2. Norton Psychiatric Center
3. University of Kentucky
4. University of Kentucky Hospital
5. UPS - Transport/delivery
6. Ford Motor Company Truck and Auto Plants
7. General Electric Consumer and Industrial Division
8. Korsair Children's Hospital
9. Lexmark International
10. University of Louisville
11. University of Louisville Hospital
12. Central Baptist Hospital Lifeline
13. Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
14. St. Joseph Hospital
15. Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield - Insurance

Through the year 2016, all levels of government join in predicting the following high demand job titles expected to grow in the Lexington market area, including the nearby suburb of Nicholasville.

1. Network Systems/Data Communications Analysts - approx. 54% growth, 2006 - 2016. Inspring 2010, these job titles began to increase more visibly in job listings.
2. Court Reporters
3. Personal and Home Health Aides (HHAs)
4. Veterinary Techs - This should be a rising-demand job title in view of successful horse farming in the area, expecially celebrity-owned farms.
5. Database Administrators
6. Personal Financial Advisors - The demand for these jobs have fluctuated from summer 2008 - spring 2010, but showed an overall moderate increase. In spring 2010, these job listings were on the upswing. New financial jobs of this nature indicate a moderately growing local economy, reinforced by the fact that this area of Kentucky is the fastest growing for residential and business concerns. Look for grwoth int he rest of this job title list, particularly in the IT related titles in all industry clusters.
7. Veterinarians - See #4 above.
8. Computer Software Engineers
9. Medical Assistants
10. Pharmacy Technicians
11. Physical Therapy Assistants - In spring 2010, this is the sole job title in the projections list to show high-demand status locally.
12. Computer Systems Analysts
13. Photographers
14. Massage Therapists
15. Foreign Language and Literature Teachers - College Level