Jamaica Jobs

Jamaica is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It was settled as a town by the English under Dutch rule in 1656 in New Netherland. It is one of the major predominantly African American neighborhoods in the borough of Queens. It has a substantial concentration of West Indian immigrants, Indians, Arabs, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans as well as many long-established African American families. The neighborhood of Jamaica is completely unrelated to the Caribbean nation of Jamaica ; the name similarity is a coincidence. The English, who took it over in 1664, named the area "Jameco," for the Jameco Native Americans, who resided on the northern shores of Jamaica Bay, and whose name means "beaver" in Algonquian languages. Jamaica is the location of most courthouses and other administrative buildings for the County of Queens including Queens Borough Hall and Queens Criminal Court, both of which are located in the neighborhood of Kew Gardens. Jamaica Center, the area around...more

The most popular companies with Jamaica jobs are:

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Currently, the most commonly listed Jamaica Jobs are for physical therapist jobs, occupational therapist jobs, project manager jobs, business analyst jobs, postdoctoral fellow jobs and administrative assistant jobs.

Simply Hired's Jamaica job listings indicate that the following industries in Jamaica are hiring the most workers: Hospitals, Investment Banking, Securities Brokers, Securities Trading and Equity Research.

According to our Jamaica Trends data, the number of Jamaica, New York jobs has decreased by 62% since March 2008.

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