Brooklyn Jobs

Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City. An independent city until its consolidation into New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with nearly 2.5 million residents. Brooklyn is coterminous with Kings County, which is the most populous county in New York State, and the second most densely populated county in the United States ). Though a part of New York City, Brooklyn maintains a distinct character of its own. Brooklyn is characterized by cultural diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods, and a unique architectural heritage.

Brooklyn's job market is driven by three main factors: the performance of the national/city economy, population flows, and the borough's position as a convenient back office for New York's businesses. Forty-four percent of Brooklyn's employed population, or 410,000 people, work in the borough; more than half of the borough's residents work outside its boundaries. As a result, economic conditions in Manhattan are important to the borough's jobseekers. Strong international immigration to Brooklyn generates jobs in services, retailing and construction. In recent years Brooklyn has benefited from a steady influx of financial back office operations from Manhattan, the rapid growth of a high-tech/entertainment economy in DUMBO, and strong growth in support services such as accounting, personal supply agencies and computer services firms. Jobs in the borough have traditionally been concentrated in manufacturing, but since 1975, Brooklyn has shifted from a manufacturing-based economy to a...more

The most popular companies with Brooklyn jobs are:

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Currently, the most commonly listed Brooklyn Jobs are for occupational therapist jobs, business analyst jobs, physical therapist jobs, project manager jobs, java developer jobs and postdoctoral fellow jobs.

Simply Hired's Brooklyn job listings indicate that the following industries in Brooklyn are hiring the most workers: Hospitals, Water Supply Utilities, Misc Store Retailers, Investment Banking and Equity Research.

According to our Brooklyn Trends data, the number of Brooklyn, New York jobs has increased by 27% since March 2008.

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