[ABC] NOW HIRING: WHO IS GETTING HIRE

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NOW HIRING: WHO IS GETTING HIRE

DIANE SAWYER: Good evening.  We begin tonight with a milestone in the effort to create more jobs in America.  A key number, [1]an indicator of our recovery is finally back where it was four years ago.

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(VO): [2]The number of Americans requesting unemployment benefits has dropped dramatically.

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): So, we want to [3]break down these numbers.  What are the jobs?  Who is getting them, men, women, younger workers or older workers?  And we found some surprises.  ABC's David Muir is here with the answers.  David?

DAVID MUIR: Diane, you and I were talking, this is a real signal that here in America, they are hiring.  But tonight, we ask right here what so many Americans are asking.  Well then who is getting hired?  As Diane asked, men or women, how old?  Where are these so-called new jobs?

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): Tonight, a real signal, companies big and small now hiring.  The number of Americans [4]filing for unemployment, the lowest since April '08, the depth of the recession.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): Back then, [5]seven Americans fighting for every one job posted.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): And for months we were stuck at four Americans competing for every job.

DAVID MUIR: Now we finally [6]dip below that, an average of 3.7 Americans for every one job.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): A lot of Americans simply want to know, who is getting hired?

GAUTAM GODHWANI : We're certainly seeing more men getting hired than women.  And that's simply because the jobs that have traditionally employed men, [7]those industries are coming back.

DAVID MUIR: More men hired in manufacturing, automotive, even retail, some dubbing it a man-covery.  They're willing to take jobs they didn't want before.  But [8]women are certainly in the race, too.  Kara Clark wrote me on Facebook today.  [9]She was laid off enough time to make her nervous.  She moved home to Iowa, began applying everywhere and tonight, she tell us, she's in San Francisco, got a job [10]doing e-commerce for the Gap.  And we wanted to know where are [11]the highest paying jobs, enough to support a family.  They pointed us to technology, health care.

GAUTAM GODHWANI: You see [12]ranges between $80,000 and $100,000 for occupational therapists.  Software engineers, the median is about $93,000 a year.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): And what about age?  Who is getting hired first?  Younger or older workers?  It turns out older.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): They're looking to some of the more skilled workers?

GAUTAM GODHWANI: Yes, if an employer has a choice to get somebody with 10 or 15 years of experience instead of [13]a new grad or somebody with less experience, they're definitely going to hire them.

DAVID MUIR: [14]A premium on experienced workers.  The Harley-Davidson plant in Wisconsin, workers working out and [15]given physical therapy on the job.

PHYSICAL THERAPIST (FEMALE): Kind of right here.

DAVID MUIR: Investing in them to keep workers like 50-year-old Debbie Germer, a machinist, on the job.

DAVID MUIR: Because studies show [16]older workers take fewer sick days, they're less likely to quit and quite simply, they [17]get along better with customers.  And at Duke Energy in North Carolina, listen to this.  It takes eight years and a lot of money spent [18]to train workers on the line.  [19]Half the techs are over 50, which is why [20]their work day starts with a workout, hoping to [21]stretch their time on the job.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): Those older workers more patience with the customers.  And just today, President Obama signed [22]bipartisan jobs legislation aimed to [23]put small business on the fast track to raising money, [24]going public for so many Americans dreaming of creating the next Facebook.  And Diane, of course, all of this comes on the eve of that all-important jobs report first thing in the morning.

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Any clue about the percentage it's going to be tomorrow?

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): Polling economists across the board, they estimate 200,000, 201,000 jobs, it'll be slightly lower than what we've seen, keeping unemployment about the same as more people now [25]enter this force with hope.

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[1] 우리 경제 회복의 지표

[2] 실업 수당을 신청하는 사람의 수

[3] 이 수치들을 분석하다

[4] 실업 수당 신청하다

[5] 1자리 하나 당 경쟁률이 7:1

[6] 그보다 조금 낮아지다

[7] 이들 업종들이 살아나고 있다

[8] ‘(전형적으로) 남성들을 위한 일자리의 회복’

[9] 여성들도 달리고 있다

[10] (청바지 회사) ‘갭’을 위한 e-commerce분야(에서) 일하다

[11] 최고 연봉직

[12] 작업 요법사 (혹은 작업 치료사, 정신적 혹은 육체적 장애가 있는 사람이 직업적 활동을 제대로 수행할 수 있도록 지원하는 일종의 재활 치료)

[13] 대학을 갓 졸업한 사람

[14] 경력자에 대한 우대

[15] 직장에서 물리 치료를 받다

[16] 나이가 든 근로자일수록 병가를 덜 신청하다

[17] 고객들과의 관계가 더 좋다

[18] 근로자를 실무 교육하다

[19] 기술직 종사자의 절반

[20] 그들의 직장에서의 일과는 운동으로 시작된다

[21] 근무할 수 있는 기간이 연장되다

[22] 초당적인 일자리 관련 법안

[23] 중소 기업들이 증자를 쉽게 하도록 지원

[24] (주식을) 공개하다

[25] 취업 대열에 합류하다