According to business researchers at the University of Central Florida as reported in a recent article in the Tampa Tribune, the areas with potential job growth in the Tampa Bay area are: professional and business service jobs, which are expected to grow 4.5 percent a year to 2013, followed by manufacturing, health, education and entrepreneurship. The industries experiencing a decline in job growth locally are construction, housing-related jobs such as mortgage brokers, and government work. The UCF research report stated that local job growth in the construction sector will not return until the second quarter of 2011, “and it will be two decades before construction employment reaches pre-recession peaks from 2006.”
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