There are more than 850,000 people working in the San Jose area and many more potential employers coming into the city each year with the help of eight universities, including the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford. This is the area of the country known as the Silicon Valley and started to grow its high-technology sector during the boom of the 1980s. Whether you're interesting in working for private lenders for mortgages or want to work in the computer industry you will find that this major sector makes it possible for all sorts of different companies to grow and thrive in the city.

There are at least twenty-five companies within San Jose that employ more than one thousand people. You might be moving from a graphic design firm Toronto based and be interested in working within the same field here in San Jose. The largest companies to choose from are Adobe Systems, BEA Systems, and Brocade Communications Systems, which all work in relation to computers. The first two make software while the third designs, makes and distributes networking solutions. Others topping the thousand employees list are Cisco, eBay and SunPower. There are also major operations for Hewlett-Packard, Flextronics, Hitachi, and IBM within San Jose.

After professional and business services, the next largest industries in the city are trade, transportation and utilities, manufacturing, education and healthcare, and leisure and hospitality. The area government also employs nearly one hundred thousand people within many different sectors and departments. While there is one industry that seems to dominate above the rest the economic slump in the 1990s forced the area to diversify. Now it is possible to find work doing everything from working with a sewage treatment chemical in the city's water system to running a small bed and breakfast all of your own.

You might also be interested to know that the residents of San Jose produce more patents than any other American city. This means it's a perfect place for the go-getter with all the big ideas. You could start your own small firm or become a member of one of the largest think tanks in the nation.

This city can currently boast that they have the highest household median income for a city of more than 280,000 residents. The cost of living in higher here than if you were working in food and beverage marketing in a city like Chicago or Philadelphia but those that reside in San Jose still have one of the highest disposable incomes in the country as well. No matter if you're just out of school and looking for the perfect city to make your mark or are interesting in a change from working for Orange County bankruptcy attorneys there could be a great future for you in San Jose.