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If you are looking for work, you could consider applying for a job of health care or transport now. But if you plan to apply on white collar fields, it may be more difficult to win a role.

The data of the new Bureau of Labor statistics published on Friday showed that more people were entering the workforce in March, contributing to a small increase in unemployment. Although employed Americans may quickly hope for a job, some people on the job market had trouble finding work. The number of long -term unemployed people increased by 40,000 in March.

“If you have never had a problem finding a job before and you suddenly do it, you cannot look at it and think:” I am the problem “”, recently said recruiter Kathleen Nolan at Business Insider. “You have to look at what’s going on around you.”

The newly published data reveal where people have been hired so far this year.

Here are the industries that hired

Cory Stahle, an economist in the job laboratory, in fact, said that the Mars job report has shown a person’s and less work force in jobs or white collar work, which could be more likely to be carried out at a distance.

Health care, which generally plays roles in person, have been a constant force on the job market, with constantly stronger gains in recent years. There is a continuous need for health workers.

There is force elsewhere in the American economy. Employment in the transportation and storage sector increased mainly due to concerts in letters and messengers, which experienced a cooler job growth last year. Meanwhile, use fell into storage and storage.

Dean Baker, principal economist of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said that the recent increase in mail and messengers, which includes people delivering packages, “could reflect an increased request for articles before prices”. President Donald Trump unveiled his last price plan on April 2, which will impose a 10% tariff on countries, then a higher rate in Japan, the European Union and many other business partners.

Stahle said that the construction gain of 13,000 in March was “notable because when interest rates began to increase a few years ago, it was a kind of industry that everyone thought it was first, and yet we see that construction continued to remain solid”.

Employment increased by 24,000 in this sector from December to March. The associated manufacturers and entrepreneurs said in a press release in January that more than 400,000 new construction workers were needed this year to meet demand.

Retail work saw the job increase in March in March, but the BLS report said on Friday that a strike end had contributed to this gain. The three -month increase in employment has shown that general retailers have experienced the highest growth among the detailed types of retail work.

Three -month employment growth in health care has been widespread in the sector. He has increased thousands of ambulatory health services, which include doctors and medical laboratories, while increasing thousands of hospitals.

While the federal government makes discounts, the figures have not been widely reflected in the report on BLS jobs due to the calendar of investigations and persons on paid leave, such as probation workers who were reinstated after an order of the court interrupting their layoffs, counted as an employee. For people who are still interested in working for the government, the local government could be an area to be examined, depending on its last three -month employment gain.

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The fun, play and leisure industries were a group in leisure and hospitality that experienced recent strength. Michael Feroli, American economist in the United States of JPMorgan, said that, similar to the construction sector, “leisure and hospitality may have benefited from better weather conditions adjusted seasonally”.

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