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By Joseph Mas

 The large amount of debt collectors and collection specialists that submit resumes daily and the number of employers looking for these debt collections specialists give ProCollectionJobs.com access to statistics that are not readily available to other job boards or even niche websites in the Collections Industry. These statistics are compiled regularly so management can focus on career services that meet the need of both employers and job seekers in a highly targeted margin. Recently, these career statistics for debt collections have shown a slight change in the top ten states in the industry.

New York has been the leader in the amount of collections firms and job seekers for over the last year. However, in June 2010 the data analysis shows Texas has moved to the top spot climbing to 12.57% from 10.11%. The Department of Labor reports that unemployment rate in both Texas and New York are the same at 82.% and have both dropped slightly. Texas has improved much more in the Financial arena than New York recently. That means with the flood of new debt coming onto the market that Financial companies in Texas seem to be getting more business, therefor they are hiring more employees.

These figures do not take into account large banks such as Bank Of America and a few others. However, these companies are flooding the debt market with massive amounts of debt for sale. This flood of debt in turn drives up the need for collections specialists and recently we have seen a huge need for skip tracers with some companies looking to hire as many as 500+ skip tracing and people research specialists in Texas. Clearly the mecca for debt collections is seeing a shift from New York to Texas. Is this just an anomaly in the data shown on the screen or is the trend going to take root? There is currently no way to tell for sure but all signs point to a real change in the market. Recent discussions with a few collection agency managers suggest that more efforts have been put in place to lower turnover. Lowering turnover could have part of this equation that has caused this shift but discussions with agency managers in both states lead to the conclusion that the companies in Texas are actually expanding because they are taking on new debt placements at a higher rate and not because of turnover.

Below is the list of the top 25 states hiring debt collectors or collections specialists as a percentage of debt collection companies hiring:

1) Texas - 12.57%

2) New York - 9.42%

3) California - 8.90%

4) Illinois - 5.76%

5) Minnesota - 5.24%

6) Florida - 4.97%

7) New Jersey - 4.45%

Massachusetts - 3.40%

9) Georgia - 3.14%

10) Delaware - 3.14%

11) Ohio - 3.14%

12) Arizona - 2.62%

13) Maryland - 2.36%

14) Virginia - 2.36%

15) Colorado - 2.09%

16) South Carolina - 1.83%

17) Washington - 1.83%

18) Wisconsin - 1.83%

19) Pennsylvania - 1.57%

20) Michigan - 1.57%

21) Nevada - 1.57%

22) North Carolina - 1.57%

23) Tennessee - 1.31%

24) Alabama - 1.05%

25) Louisiana - 1.05%

Error margin is less than 3.9% throughout the data.

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Online News Readers Constantly Rising in Numbers

By Adrian Francu

 The newspapers industry has changed and those newspapers that are not paying attention to what is happening will quickly end up losing profits. The world’s biggest newspapers have already made the shift towards online publishing and it is easy to understand why. While at a local level we would have a limited number of magazines being sold, thanks to the Internet any newspaper can end up with dozens of thousands of visitors reading just one article that was published. With such a power in mind it is easy to see why newspapers need an online presence.

Now the question that rises is:

Why do People Prefer Reading News Online?

One of the biggest reasons that we can mention is the fact that on a website you can just read the piece of news that you are interested in. If you buy a newspaper then you are basically forced to purchase it. Nowadays people do not really want to pay an amount just for reading one piece of news that they want to learn more about.

Another reason is commodity. While using RSS anyone can easily just go through the recent news and read everything that happens and is linked with subjects of interest. This comes without a need to go and purchase a newspaper. You can easily do this from your personal computer while staying at home in your underpants. Where can you gain such commodity when talking about regular newspapers? You can easily gain the time wasted by going to the newspaper stand if you just look at what you want to see online.

We should also mention the fact that sometimes our chosen newspaper will not offer the news that really interest us. Newspapers are limited and the Internet is not. In the event that you can not find what you are looking for in one newspaper you can always go towards another one. There are hundreds of online publications and even more web sites that simply present news. How can you top such a power?

If you are looking for news your best possible solution is looking online. You will find everything a lot faster and with the use of subscriptions you can even find out when an article is published immediately as it appeared online.

Article offered by the business news department of Daily News.

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