5 companies that are't afraid to hire

While many businesses are content to boost profits by cutting back, a select few are confident enough to hire and grow. That makes them promising plays for investors.  Just about every week, we hear the depressing news that unemployment remains high because few jobs have been created, a trend that seems to suggest stocks are no place to be because growth will remain weak. But the big-picture numbers disguise the truth: Many companies are on hiring binges. In this economy, that's a great indicator for investors…

While business profits overall are at record levels, many companies have focused on cutting back and hunkering down. Companies' decisions to hire represent confidence that not only are their bottom lines strong but that their businesses will keep growing. They're not just playing defense.

To me, this means that buying the stocks of companies on hiring binges, such as Apple (AAPL, news, msgs), AT&T (T, news, msgs) and Comcast (CMCSA, news, msgs), makes sense even when those stocks have been going up. Hiring trends also support contrarian buys of defense stocks like Lockheed Martin (LMT, news, msgs) and General Dynamics (GD, news, msgs), which have declined amid uncertainty about defense budget cuts.

So who's hiring?

To find out which companies are doing the most hiring, I asked for help from Indeed.com, a search engine for jobs. Its algorithms normally help job seekers find openings. Indeed.com turned its "algos" loose on the Internet and its own databases to find which companies have the most job postings online right now and over the past three and six months.

Hiring is strongest in three areas: Retail, Health care and Technology. I'm excluding retailers such as J.C. Penney and McDonald's from my list of possible investments based on hiring trends, for a simple reason: Because turnover is higher on sales floors and at cash registers, these companies are probably always hiring.

In health care, the companies doing the most hiring are names like Kaiser Permanente and HCA -- private businesses we can't invest in. They're off our list, too.

That leaves us with five plays, all in technology, so often the sector that produces growth when everything else looks bleak. Another common factor that ties these five companies together: healthy cash flow. This is a sign that they have good track records and are doing the right thing when taking on the cost of hiring employees. It also means they can hire add workers without going further into debt to do so.

Here are the names:

Apple

It's not hard to figure out why Apple comes up high on the list of companies with the most job postings online right now, with 4,500 ads as of last week, according to Indeed.com. Last quarter, for the first quarter ever, the company posted more than $20 billion in revenue as a record 14.1 million iPhones were sold worldwide, a 91% increase over the year-ago quarter.

Other products are doing great as well, aided by a "halo effect"; people like iPhones so they buy other Apple products. Mac computer sales were up 27%, or more than twice the growth in PC sales, and Apple sold 4.2 million iPads.

"This is a company on a major growth trajectory," says Andrew Corn, the chief investment officer of E5A Funds in New York. "It is still my largest position."

Apple's current aggressive search for more employees tells us the company has confidence these trends will continue. This is believable because Apple is expanding distribution into Wal-Mart, Target and Verizon. Plus more and more companies are offering iPads and iPhones to employees. And while most U.S. cell phone users now have smart phones, in many places abroad this upgrade is still in the early stages. The demand for iPhones "in all countries is absolutely staggering," says Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook.

Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes also cites what he calls the "FaceTime networking effect." This means that as Apple's FaceTime video conferencing app spreads to more Apple devices from the iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch, more people will want Apple products so they can make video phone calls.

Apple is probably also hiring to build out its cloud computing, so it can sell notebooks with smaller hard drives and let consumers store data such as iTunes libraries on servers accessed via the Internet. "The company has been actively building an expensive data center in North Carolina, perhaps to enhance iTunes in this way," says Reitzes. He has a $390 price target on the stock, which recently sold for $310, up 55% in the past year.

AT&T

As the exclusive iPhone vendor in the U.S., AT&T is riding the same trends as Apple. The phone company activated a record 5.2 million iPhones in the third quarter, of which 1.2 million went to new customers. AT&T recently added iPads to its lineup of Apple offerings.

"That is going to make a big difference," says Jim Hardesty of Hardesty Capital Management in Baltimore.

Plus, consumers have been signing up for the company's U-verse TV service at a rapid pace. The number of subscribers increased 50% in the past quarter, compared with a year earlier, to 2.7 million.

All of this -- plus plans to roll out a faster fourth-generation wireless network next year -- means AT&T has to invest heavily in its networks to add capacity, which explains why the company ranks high on the list of companies looking for employees.

"The hiring is part of the infrastructure buildout," says Alan Lancz of Alan B. Lancz & Associates, a money management company. AT&T will probably shell out $19 billion in capital spending this year, including a 55% year-over-year increase in wireless-related spending. AT&T had 8,300 job postings online last week, according to Indeed.com.

One concern is that AT&T is going to lose its status as the exclusive U.S. iPhone vendor soon. But Keith Goddard, a portfolio co-manager for the Capital Advisors Growth Fund (CIAOX), which owns the stock, thinks these fears are overblown. He cites bullish U-verse TV subscriber trends and robust sales of Android phones. Plus, many of AT&T's iPhone users are locked in to multiyear contracts.

"It's is not like you are going to see this massive transition the minute another carrier gets the iPhone," Goddard says.

Michael Brush

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WILL YOUR RÉSUMÉ EVEN BE READ?

On a recent morning in Columbus, Ga., 19 Aflac employees were seated around a table, discussing some IT positions they needed to fill. Aflac has never had layoffs in its 54-year history and is now in the enviable position of attracting more talent than it has room for...

The recruiters are doing a status check on several open positions. An IT manager, Octavio Herrera, who's wearing a yellow tie with white Aflac ducks, says he's found some candidates on LinkedIn for a systems security administration position. For another opening, LaShena Smith, the senior technical recruiter at Aflac, reports that she interviewed someone whose manner she found too aggressive for the position. The candidate was dinged. As Herrera later notes, "Technology can always be taught. [I want] great communication skills and someone who works well with others."

Like many large companies, Aflac keeps a huge database of job applicants it can search for certain key words like "supervised staff" if the company wants someone with management experience. Anyone who applies online is funneled through this system.

Typically a recruiter will present four or five candidates to the manager, so perfecting your resume is critical. "The reality is we have a 'no' pile and a 'maybe' pile, and it takes four seconds to know where it winds up," says Glenn Fox, AOL's former head of recruiting and the CEO of BusinessElite, an invitation-only website for senior executives and those who hire them.

Always include metrics that describe your work: How many direct reports did you have? What was your budget? And be sure to mirror your resume to the description of the job you want. If the position is "product marketer" and you've done that kind of work before, actually use the words "product marketing" to describe your experience.

As for cover letters, recruiters and managers are split on how much weight they carry. Some advocate writing only a few compelling sentences, because no one has time to read a drawn-out letter. Others still recommend the traditional format of three or four paragraphs to show off your writing prowess. Kevin Donlin, president of Guaranteed resumes, advises clients to add a PS note at the bottom of a cover letter with a punchy sentence on why you'd be great for the job. People tend to read those out of curiosity.

Clever packaging can only take you so far, though. Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School, argues that since the 1980s there's been a fundamental shift in the way companies hire. As with just-in-time manufacturing, in which companies lower inventory to reduce carrying costs, Cappelli says employers are adjusting to changing markets by plugging in perfectly suited workers from the outside when they're needed, then dropping them when they're done. He calls it the "just-in-time workforce."

That is bad news for job seekers who are hoping to reinvent themselves in this recession. "You're not going to change your career in this downturn," he says. "Nobody's going to hire you and say, 'I know you were in finance, but we're going to retrain you to be in marketing.'" Adds Neil Davies, a Microsoft staffing manager. "If we need five things, in the current market we're not really moving forward on people who have four out of the five."

Sometimes, though, even when you're not perfect on paper, you can make a great case for yourself.

GETTING TO YES

"I have no reason to hire you," said the hiring manager at SAS, the software company, when Pat Bennett walked in for an interview. Bennett, 52, had no background selling technology software. But she pitched herself as a perfect fit in a unit targeting financial services clients. Her last job had been at LexisNexis, handling high-strung attorneys every day. Surely she could deal with hedge fund managers too. In her second-round interview, Bennett gave a presentation showing how she'd approach the business in her first 30 days. She got the job.

In this environment, companies simply can't afford to hope you'll be able to do the job. You need to demonstrate it. "Gone is the time when you could have the first year to prove yourself," says Juliet Flint, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers who advises the firm's portfolio companies on talent and recruiting. "You need to have immediate impact in the first 30 days."

Well before you're hired, there are ways to show off your strengths. The CEO of tech startup AdaptiveBlue said the company just hired an engineer who found three problems in the software he'd be testing before he even came in for an interview.

Michael J.A. Ehrlich, laid off from his job in research equity sales at Oppenheimer, found another clever way to show prospective employers he would bring in new business. He persuaded one former client, a hedge fund, to let him use its office to conduct his job search. The boutique research shop JNK Securities Corp. was so impressed that it hired him less than three weeks later.

If you dazzle a company enough, it might even create a position to make use of your talents. After Chris DeBrusk sold his consulting firm, he started kicking around an idea for a product to help financial services catch any ethical lapses by doing surveillance on their own trading activity. He took his idea to half-a-dozen companies, including Sapient in Boston, where he had worked eight years earlier. His presentations laid out the business opportunity, what kind of revenue upside it could bring, and when. Sapient brought him on in February. "In my experience most firms have open requirements," says DeBrusk. "It's about building the relationship first and then finding the job."

So when you're following up on an interview, don't just send a pat thank-you note. Think about what you learned from the interview and show how it sparked some new ideas about the job. If you're reading an article that seems relevant, send it along with some commentary. "Every so often I would send an article to a vice president to let him know I was thinking about the market," says Sparno. "I'd write, 'Hey, John, interesting article on market dynamics,' just to show him this is a guy who's thinking not just about a job - I'm someone who can think strategically."

Even though the market is brutal right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is to take a job that doesn't fit you. Not only will you not do your best work, but when the recession ends (and it will), you'll be moving in the wrong direction.

"I didn't want any job just to have a job," says Jonathan Kooker, the law school grad, "because then, when people start hiring again in two years, I'd be stuck with experience I didn't want." Sure, he's only 31. He doesn't have kids or a mortgage. But he does have something 12.5 million people desperately want: an employer.

REPORTER ASSOCIATE Beth Kowitt contributed to this article. 
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Increasing your Earning Potential

Throughout most of human history, we have been accustomed to evolution, or the gradual changing and progressing of events in a straight line. Sometimes the process of change was faster and sometimes it was slower, but it almost always seemed to be progressive, from one step to the other, allowing you some opportunities for planning, predicting and changing.

Today, however, the rate of change is not only faster than ever before, but it is discontinuous. It is taking place in a variety of unconnected areas and affecting each of us in a variety of unexpected ways. Changes in information processing technologies are happening separately from changes in medicine, changes in transportation, changes in education, changes in politics and changes in global competition. Changes in family formation and relationships are happening separately from the rise and fall of new businesses and industries in different parts of the country. And if anything, this rate of accelerated, discontinuous change is increasing. As a result, most of us are already suffering from what Alvin Toffler once called, “future shock.”

You can’t do very much about the enormity of these changes, but the one thing that you can do is to think seriously about yourself and your basic need for security and stability. In no area is this more important than in the areas of job security and financial security. You must give special attention to your ability to make a good living and provide for yourself in the months and years ahead.

Above all, to position yourself for tomorrow, you must think continuously and seriously about your work today, your earning ability , and the work that you will be doing one, three, and five years from today. You must plan to achieve your own financial security, no matter what happens.

Charles Kettering said that you should give a lot of thought to the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life. One of the greatest mistakes that people can make, and the one with the worst long-term consequences, is to think only about the present and give very little thought to what might happen in the months and years ahead.

When our grandfathers started work, it was quite common for them to get a basic education and then go to work for a company and stay with that same company for the rest of their working lives. When our parents went to work, it was more common for them to change jobs three or four times during their lifetime, although it was difficult and disruptive.

Today, with increased turbulence and change in the national and global economy, a person starting work can expect to have five full-time careers between the ages of 21 and 65, and 14 full-time jobs lasting two years or more. According to Fortune Magazine, fully 40 percent of American employees in the 21st Century will be “contingency” workers. This means that they will never work permanently for another company. They will continue to move as needed, from company to company, from job to job, earning less money than full-time employees and accruing very few, if any, benefits in terms of health care and pension plans.

Imagine what your job will look like five years from today. Since knowledge in your field is probably doubling every five years, this means that fully twenty percent of your knowledge and your ability in your field is becoming obsolete each year. In five years, you will be doing a brand new job with brand new skills and abilities. Ask yourself, “What parts of my knowledge, skills and work are becoming obsolete? What am I doing today that is different than what I was doing one year ago and two years ago?” What are you likely to be doing one year, two years, three years, four years and five years from today? What knowledge and skills will you need and how will you acquire them? What is your plan for your economic and financial future?

We are now in the knowledge age. Today, the chief factors of production are knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to achieving results for other people. Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

The Law of Three says that you must contribute three dollars of profit for every dollar that you wish to earn in salary. It costs a company approximately double your salary to employ you in terms of space, benefits, supervision, and investment in furniture, fixtures, and other resources. For a company to hire you, they have to make a profit on what they pay you. Therefore, you must contribute value greatly in excess of the amount you earn in order to stay employed. To put it another way, your earning ability must be considerably greater than the amount you are receiving, or you will find yourself looking for another job.

To position yourself for tomorrow, here is one of the most important rules you will ever learn: “The future belongs to the competent.” The future belongs to those men and women who are very good at what they do. Pat Riley, in his book The Winner Within, wrote that, “If you are not committed to getting better at what you are doing, you are bound to get worse.” To phrase it another way, anything less than a commitment to excellent performance on your part is an unconscious acceptance of mediocrity. It used to be that you needed to be excellent to rise above the competition in your industry.Today, you must be excellent even to keep your job in your industry.

The marketplace is a stern task master. Today, excellence, quality, and value are absolutely essential elements of any product or service, and of the work of any person. Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance. Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive. It’s not personal. It’s just the way our economy works.

To earn more, you must learn more. You are maxed out today at your current level of knowledge and skill. However much you are earning at this moment is the maximum you can earn without learning and practicing something new and different.

And here’s the rub. Your accumulated knowledge and experience is becoming obsolete bit by bit, day by day. The knowledge in your field is doubling every three to five years. That means that your knowledge must double every three to five years just for you to stay even.

The solution to the dilemma of unavoidable change and restructuring is continuous self-development. Your personal knowledge and your ability to apply that knowledge are your most valuable assets. To stay on top of your world, you must continually add to your knowledge and your ability. You must continually build up your mental assets if you want to enjoy a continuous return on your investment. And only by building on your current assets do you stop them from deteriorating.

By engaging in continuous self-improvement, you can put yourself behind the wheel of your own life. By dedicating yourself to enhancing your earning ability, you will automatically be engaging in the continuous process of personal development. By learning more, you prepare yourself to earn more. You position yourself for tomorrow by developing the knowledge and skills that you need to be a valuable and productive part of our economy, no matter which direction it goes.

(by Brian Tracy)

How can Employers or Managers reduce stress at workplace?

It's in a manager's best interest to keep stress levels in the workplace to a minimum. Managers must act as positive role models, especially in times of high stress. All of the tips mentioned below are twice as important for managers to follow. If someone that we admire remains calm, it is much easier to remain calm ourselves – and vice versa! There are also organizational changes that managers and employers can make to reduce workplace stress.

Improve communication

§  Share information with employees to reduce uncertainty about their jobs and futures.

§  Clearly define employees’ roles and responsibilities.

§  Make communication friendly and efficient, not mean-spirited or petty.

Consult your employees

§  Give workers opportunities to participate in decisions that affect their jobs.

§  Consult employees about scheduling and work rules.

§  Be sure the workload is suitable to employees’ abilities and resources; avoid unrealistic deadlines.

§  Show that individual workers are valued.

Offer rewards and incentives

§  Praise good work performance verbally and institutionally.

§  Provide opportunities for career development.

§  Promote an “entrepreneurial” work climate that gives employees more control over their work.

Cultivate a friendly social climate

§  Provide opportunities for social interaction among employees.

§  Establish a zero-tolerance policy for harassment.

§  Make management actions consistent with organizational values.

Job Interview Tips for everyone

Some interviewers look for different characteristics from candidates. This is to ensure that they got the right people for the job position. In term of education and training, most employers are looking for people who have at least a bachelor degree. Some may be diploma holders. But a highly qualified candidate with high education certificates does not guarantee the candidate will be able to work. There is more than that. Work experience is also a plus. This tells the interviewer that they do not need heavy oversight to monitor the candidate. There are four main criteria from each candidate during the job interview that employers look for (read more…)

Honest
When an interviewer asked questions within the same subject, the answers are consistent. They don’t make up story that when the interviewer asks for more details, they can’t answer it anymore. Reason, when performing the job or tasks, we need people who will tell the truth on the job progress. So that, action can be quickly taken to rectify problems and will not delay the overall works.

Personality and attitude
This is truth The most important factors remain in personality and attitude and about 70% of success in securing a job or job interview is tied to the personality and attitude of the candidates. Employers always need a candidate who is nice, not arrogant and stubborn.  They want people who can work in teams, flexible and able to perform the operation and task. People who are arrogant have the most chances of failure not to receive the job offer. This is because they can become a stumbling block for a work to be completed in time. They keep arguing with teammates and don’t want to listen to feedback.

Appearance
This does not mean you have to be beautiful and pretty but you need to show a clean look, confident and active. Some candidates feel really lazy. When ask with questions, they don’t want to answer properly and slow to react.

Candidates’ passion
 They are keen to join the service or company. Passion is one of the upmost important criteria. People who are passionate in doing what they do will be able to complete the job task outstandingly compare to people who come to work for the sake of coming.

A lot of candidates spend time looking for something else such as spending money on clothing, reading too much about the company but candidates, who had made the preparations, are in a better position than those who do not. During the interview session, they look confident and outstanding, rather than nervous all the way.

How to prepare for the first job?

If you are a recent college graduate and you are looking for your 1^st job, you will likely garner a higher salary and more specific skills than someone without a college degree…

You are looking for a job for the first time, you may feel somewhat intimidated. Your job goal in this case is to find a position which matches your skill set and other qualifications and also pays a salary you can be happy with. If it provide room for advancement, that’s even better. Otherwise, you will have to look to another company, another job search to move upward.

So, how do you begin your search for that first job?

The first thing to do is to decide exactly what you are looking for in a job. This sounds simpler than it really is as few people sit down and think about their goals and criteria before they begin their career search. Instead, most people go from job to job without ever thinking about their goals, other than financial ones.

By first identifying your goals, you will have a clearer picture of which positions you really want to pursue. Don't neglect to do this – it would be tragic to reach retirement and realize that you never were truly fulfilled in your work life. Find the positions which truly interest you and go for them!

Your first job search should also entail looking into the track records of the companies out there to assess which most closely meet your goals and needs. While you could work for any company and do OK for yourself, you will be much more personally fulfilled working for an organization which is in alignment with your own personal beliefs and values.

Remember that not all companies are created equal – some really are better than others. Talk to people currently employed at the company and find how they feel about their employer.

Do your research and find out how the company ranks in regard to employee satisfaction.

At this point, you know what you want and you have an idea of the kinds of employers for whom you would like to work. What do you do next? When you are looking for your first jobs, the next step is to find out which jobs are available that match your goals. There are a number of ways to do this – and it’s recommended you do all of them. The more you limit your approaches, the less likely you are to find the ideal job.

Where do you look for job openings?

Internet

Networking

Classified Ads

Career Centers at Colleges

Employment Agencies

Direct Employer Contact

The good news is that 1^st jobs are easier to come by than high level positions, so you shouldn’t have to look as hard or for as long to find a job that meets your qualifications.

One thing to keep in mind is that the more effort you put into your job search, the more likely you are to end up with a position that makes you happy AND pays your bills.

How to prepare for the Job Interview?

There are few things that make a person more nervous than a job interview. It feels as though your entire life is on display. Somehow you feel the need to prove that everything you have ever accomplished was done so for the express purpose of getting this ONE job… 

While the interview will always evoke some amount of stress and trepidation, there are things you can do to make the process easier and a more positive outcome likely.

1.      One of the most important things you can do is be prepared for the job interview. That doesn't just mean you need to carry an extra copy or two of your resume with you, it means that you have to.

2.      Research the company to have a true understanding of the products and/or services offered as well as to be able to converse knowledgeably about the company during the employment interview.

3.      Know your answers to the most likely interview questions well enough to say them to yourself in a mirror without reading them or using cue cards.

4.      Plan your route to the employment interview including alternate routes should traffic be a problem. Expect to get to the interview location 10-15 minutes early (or earlier if you need more time), but do not go into the building until approximately 5 minutes prior to the start of the interview.

5.      Determine what to wear and have it ready and waiting the night before the big day. If necessary, shine your shoes. Do whatever it takes to ensure you look professional and it will help you feel professional, too.

6.      Make sure every aspect of grooming is meticulously managed. (i.e. nails trimmed short, hair kept in a stylish cut, freshly showered and so on)

The job interview, while un-nerving, is a necessary part of virtually every career. If taken seriously and well planned for, it can be successfully accomplished with minimal stress.

8 -Things that Smart Job Seekers Do

Smart job seekers focus on the needs of the employer and demonstrate how they are perfect for this particular position. Show enthusiasm during the job interview, always makes certain that the company you're interviewing with feels as if it is your first choice, no matter what other companies are involved in your job search..

  

1. Do their homework.

Smart applicants know something about potential employers. From googling a company to checking out its financial statements, they learn what they can -- and use the info to enhance their correspondence.

2. They know employers do their homework, too.

"According to a Core metrics study, 75 percent of companies require recruiters to research job applicants online, so you'll want to be sure you know what they'll find," says co-author of "The online job search survival guide." Besides thinking twice about what you choose to post, it suggests doing a google search on your name. If you find something undesirable, try to have it removed.

3. Put adequate time and effort into their applications.

"Spend time to make your résumé the best possible written advertisement of you," says Lisa Quast, author of "Your Career, Your Way! "Analyze the job requirements against your own skills and abilities, and customize your cover letter." Obviously, all correspondence should be free of errors and typos and before sending off the application packet, look at the job posting one last time to ensure all desired material is included.

4. Surf job boards for more than just open positions.

You might see companies you didn't know before -- add these to your list of targets. You might see the same requirements again and again -- this indicates a standard for the job you want, so incorporate these items into your pitch and cover letters.

5. Make their value known quickly.

"An employer gives each résumé about a three-second window of time before he decides to either 'delete' or read further," says Patrice Rice, author of "How to Interview" A smart applicant answers the question, "What can you do for me?" right off the bat with a summary of strongest accomplishments at the top of the résumé.

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6. Look and act like a professional.

Simple but effective: A smart applicant arrives on time, dresses appropriately, both talks and listens, displays confidence and minds his manners.

7. They don't get ahead of themselves.

As much as they may be dying to know about promotions, raises and vacation time, a smart candidate doesn't jump the gun and tackle these issues during the first interview. They focus on landing the position, then on whether the package is suitable.

8. Ask for the position, follow up and offer thanks.

They get the job they want with the skills and experience they already have. At the end of the interview, sum up your strengths; tell the interviewer that you are excited about the position and say, 'I would really like to contribute to this company. I am hoping you select me'. A smart interviewee keeps his name in the game with a follow-up note reiterating interest and offering thanks – as you know a great last impression can seal the deal.

Jobs that Pay Over $ 100,000

Among several parameters that an individual ponders over while choosing a career, the most important one is salary. There are some jobs that have the potential to earn you very competitive salaries. Such jobs that pay more than $ 100,000 are given here for your information. Commanding a salary above $ 100,000 demands one to have requisite skills, experience and higher educational qualifications. Know more about jobs that pay over $ 100,000 in this article.

Chief Executive Officer:
CEOs are among the highest paid professionals. They can earn anywhere between $160,000 to 300,000

Vice Presidents/COOs/CFOs/Marketing Executives:
In any management firm, corporate professionals earn very decent salaries. Those on the top of corporate hierarchy have the potential to earn over $100,000, as they reach to these challenging positions after years of hard work.

Software Engineers/Architects:
Armed with a technical degree in computer science and with a flair for software development, you can climb zenith of success in this field. Software professionals can earn on an average $120,000. It is certainly, one of the jobs that pay over $ 100,000

Doctors:
Healthcare industry, the biggest sector in US, prides in giving some of the highest salaries to its doctors, surgeons, anesthesiologists and various doctors in other branches. In this profession you can earn more more than $ 100,000.

Lawyers:
The lawyer salary especially those in criminal and corporate fields, easily crosses the $ 100,000, once the lawyer is settled in this field. Since law is an extremely competitive field, a candidate has to work hard to settle in this career. Being a lawyer is one of the highest paying careers but you must have very good work experience and must have proved your mettle in this field.

Finance Manager:
In the management field, finance manager are responsible for handling accounts and finance related matters of the firm. Once you've a good work experience, you can earn very decent salaries in this field, crossing the $ 100,000.

Human Resource Managers:
Human resource managers are amongst the best paid professionals when it comes to established firms. In the recent years, there have been surges in the earning potential of human resource manager salary, as those have become an integral part of every firm and organization.

BEST INCOME JOBS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS:

There are some of the high paying jobs for college students which you can choose from. But whenever you go for a job search, and whatever you choose, make sure that you have enough time for study. So give complete attention to your studies while planning to do a part time job...

each Students:
You have a good chance of earning good cash, if you opt to work as part time, owning a teacher job in a school. Moreover, you can also opt for a career in teaching later on, which not only provides a decent income, but also gives you a good vacation time during the academic year. In addition, if you go for teaching languages, you can expect to earn more compared to other subjects. In addition to that, it's a high paying stress free job, which gives you a lot of time for studies. 

Teller in a Bank:
A lot of people looking for part time high paying jobs work as bank tellers. You can search for teller jobs which don't need a college degree. Moreover, if you are opting for majors in accounts and finance, you can get an idea of how the banking industry works. Besides, it can also give you a way of getting a higher level job after you graduate.

Help Desk Clerk:
You can also go for help desk assistant in a hotel, thereby gaining some experience of customer service, which in turn can help you in searching for a full time job. In case you like the hospitality industry, a part time job as a help desk clerk in a hotel can be of great advantage. However, the downside is that, you may have to be busier in greeting the customers and you may not get enough time to study.

Library Assistant:
Whether it's your school, college or public libraries, you can opt to work as a library assistant. The job entails sorting out books, besides helping people who are searching for a particular book. It's one of those part time, besides all other highest paying jobs for college students furnishes enough time to study. Moreover, another excellent advantage of this job is that you can look for books and study them in the library itself, those which would be necessary for you to get excellent grades in college. 

Desk Attendant:
Most schools and colleges are upgrading the security system in campuses and therefore the search of part time attendants to look after the entry and exit points of the campus. If you are one of those who like working and studying till late at night, then this job may be good for you. You not only get a pay check at the end of the month, but you can get ample time to study as well, which makes it one of the best jobs for college students.

Helping Parents to Take Care of their Child:
Search for people who are looking for someone to take care of their babies. You can start of by looking for teachers who may want such services or people in your locality. Such a job may not give you that great a pay check, but if you prove that you are reliable, you can earn a pretty handsome amount. Preferably, look for night sitting gigs so that you get enough time to study and complete your home work.

Online Jobs:
In your spare time, you can also think of work at home jobs, which can be done online. Some of these online jobs include writing (like articles in linkedin.com) and data entry etc. If you have a creative bend of mind and know how to design websites, you can also help people to design a website.