Hey, it’s Parker your favorite Atlanta REALTOR! If you’ve been thinking about making the move to Atlanta, you may be wondering about job opportunities! So today I wanted to showcase some of the excellent job opportunities we have in Atlanta.
Now I’m going to primarily showcase health care and technology, but I want you to think about all of the other downstream opportunities that are created by these large investments these companies are making. Before we get started, if you want to know anything about the Atlanta business climate, I highly recommend that you subscribe to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. It’s the one newspaper I read every day, and it’s a terrific source for information about all the opportunities available in Atlanta.
All right, let’s get going! Now I’m not going to get too far down in the weeds with each of these, I just wanted to give you a high level overview, give you some ideas about where you might find employment in Atlanta.
Microsoft is continuing to bet big in Atlanta. They are buying up some very significant pieces of land, both inside the perimeter on Atlanta’s west side, and also in some of the outlying suburbs. The plan is for Atlanta to be their east coast headquarters, and according to this article, it is possible they might create as many as 10,000 jobs.
Visa is expanding their midtown Atlanta footprint, and could bring in as many as a thousand new jobs. Innovative Surgical makes robotic tools for minimally invasive surgeries – they’re planning a 1,200 employee expansion with jobs in medical training, manufacturing, engineering, administration. Innovative Surgical is located in Peachtree Corners, which is northeast of Atlanta, outside the perimeter. It’s a very nice community up there.
Our last tech insight is that of our own homegrown email marketing company: Mailchimp just sold to Intuit for a cool 12 billion dollars!Mailchimp is moving their offices to a new location while they merge with Intuit, and they’re hiring a bunch of new people to help merge the two products, so that should be really an exciting development!
Let’s look at our hospital systems, and see what they’re up to. There are major employment opportunities in Atlanta’s healthcare systems: Emory Hospital is currently building a one billion dollar medical complex at North Druid Hills Road and I-85 right. Across the street, Children’s Healthcare is investing one and a half billion dollars into what I’ve heard will be the fourth or fifth largest hospital complex in the United States. Northside Hospital Gwinnett is building a 400 million dollar patient tower in Lawrenceville. Lawrenceville is in Gwinnett county, and the growth up there has been absolutely explosive. It is on track, I think in the next five years to be the largest county by population in the Atlanta metro area. Wellstar Health System is spending 263 million on a new tower in Marietta. All told this is over three billion dollars in new health care investments by hospitals that are already some of Atlanta’s largest employers.
Emory is Atlanta’s number one employer. Northside Hospital is number three on the list. Wellstar Healthcare and Piedmont Hospital come in at number six and seven, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is Atlanta’s 12th largest employer. So when these multi-billion dollar projects are happening in health care and technology, it’s not just good news if you happen to be in it or a doctor or a nurse – it’s good news if you have any skill set. Whether you work in transportation, whether you are an electrician, plumber, if you’re in logistics supply chain management, administration. It creates so many opportunities – it’s like ripples in a pond.
So keep your eyes out – pay attention, you know get that subscription to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read it every week, because there are always great ideas about where you can find employment in Atlanta. So if you’re thinking of making the move to Atlanta, as always my number’s in the box down below. Feel free to give me a call – I talk to people every week – a lot of people lately from California, New York. I talk to people every week that are planning on making their moves to Atlanta. Some are coming next month, some are coming three months, six months, but it’s never too early to start having that conversation: learning about the great neighborhoods around Atlanta, figuring out where you want to live. Make your plans – make your move!