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Sample Listings:

• Sales Manager
  Confidential Client – CHICAGO, Illinois -  Min. $100K
  programs that enhance responsiveness. They are seeking an experienced SALES MANAGER to grow sales with new accounts while increasing penetration with existing customers. Summary: Reports to the President; directs the SALES force consisting of
• National Sales Manager – Specialty Chemicals
  Confidential Client – CHICAGO, Illinois – Min. $110K
  Our client is a well run growing and thriving chemical manufacturer. Summary: Reports to the Senior VP of Sales and Marketing and directs the sales force consisting of Regional Sales Managers and a Manager of Distribution Networks.
• Sales Manager
  Confidential Client – CHICAGO, Illinois -  Min. $80K
  industry. Summary: Reports to the President; manages a 10 person field sales organization. Responsibilities: * Achieving annual SALES and MARGIN and NEW Business goals. * Managing the SALES force with major emphasis on profit and sales growth
• Field Sales Manager
  Confidential – Chicago, Illinois – Min. $90K
  Summary: The Field Sales Manager is the chief customer facing executive in our firm. As such, this individual must combine outstanding sales abilities with hands-on training and supervision skills. Must also have a real passion for the customer and for
• Regional Sales Manager -Chicago, IL Job
  Confidential – Naperville, Illinois -  Min. $80K
  Regional Sales Manager -Chicago, IL-708372 Description Sales Manages up to 14 Area Sales Managers (ASMs). Responsible for recruiting, developing, and motivating a high-performance sales team to meet and/or exceed all critical sales performance

 

In 2010, Illinois had a population of nearly 13 million residents, an increase of half a million individuals since the 2000 census. Today, the Land of Lincoln has an unemployment rate of 8.8%, which is below the national average — and good news for people seeking jobs in Illinois.

Industry Trends
For people currently searching for jobs in Illinois, it helps to know current employment trends, which show industries on the rise, those that are seeing a consistent decrease in workforce personal as well as those that are maintaining consistency. Based on Bureau of Labor statistics, construction jobs in Illinois, while they have been steadily decreasing over the past year, are quickly starting to break even and could show an increase in jobs in Illinois in 2011. Manufacturing jobs have been increasing slowly but steadily. Trade, transportation and utility jobs have been consistently hovering just above breaking even and on a slight incline, adding additional workers to the workforce each month over the past year. The information sector started out thinning its workforce midway through 2010, but has reversed itself and is now putting more people to work. The financial, government, leisure and hospitality sectors are the careers to avoid right now, but could soon start jobs in Illinois when the economy improves. The professional business services sector started out strong midway through 2010, but has been declining since. It still adds jobs in Illinois each month, but those numbers are steadily declining. Education and health services are among the most stable provider of jobs in Illinois, seeing neither gains nor losses in the past year.

Announcing Dream Jobs in Illinois

At A Glance
Top 5 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Illinois include agricultural manufacturer Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur; State Farm Insurance Company in Bloomington; aviation company, Boeing in Chicago; retail drugstore, Walgreen’s in Deerfield; and automotive company, Caterpillar in Peoria. There are multiple opportunities in technology information, environmental and financial sectors as well. Some of the most notable employers in Chicago are technology giant Google; greenhouse gas emission reduction organization Chicago Climate Exchange, and the CME Group, the financial organization that was once two individual groups: Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade.

Fast Growing Firms Offering Jobs in Illinois
Look to fast growing firms for job openings. Telecommunications giants iNetworks Group Inc. tops the list of 50 fasting growing companies offering jobs in Illinois, followed by Neutral Tendem Inc. Law firm marketing company Total Attorneys is one of the top generation Y employers in the nation. Network service provider, Nitel is one of the fasted growing companies in the state. Lime Energy, which provides energy efficient solutions is always adding jobs in Illinois.

Fastest Growing Companies
A fast growing company is always looking for people to fill positions and these companies are always adding jobs in Illinois. Convergint Technologies, based in Schaumburg, is an electronic securities and safety firm and recipient of the 2007 Companies that Care award for elevating employees quality of life. Transportation services company, Concert Group Logistics, is located in Downers Grove. Acquity Group in Chicago is an information technology company, recipient of the Best in Class award for interactive media and has achieved 333.5% growth since 2001.