The unemployment rate in San Francisco dropped significantly between the months of August and September, from 6.7 to 4.2 percent. As schools throughout the city re-open their doors, many of those without employment for the summer season are able to return to work. Although the lower jobless rate shows some month-to-month improvement, the statistics aren’t as positive as those of previous years.

Last September only 3.7 percent of the city’s population were without work. This year’s unemployment increase can, for the most part, be blamed on the current housing situation. With real estate sales experiencing a slump, both the construction and mortgage industries have been unable to offer as many San Francisco jobs as they have in previous years.

Although the housing market has lessened the number of available San Francisco jobs in these industries, other’s continue to grow significantly. Unaffected by challenging real estate issues, both professional and business services and the leisure and hospitality industries continued to create a fair amount of new San Francisco jobs throughout September

Despite the fact that that city’s rising cost of living is causing some concern, the San Francisco job market is in an overall good state. Job search expert and president of Innovations PSI Paula Todd says that “[I]n the financial services sector in particular, San Francisco continues to be a robust job market, with more job growth to date in 2007 then we have seen in previous years.” She went on to say that there were demands for a variety of differently skilled workers, with available San Francisco jobs needing to be filled running from receptionists and administrative positions to executive and investment banking jobs.

For those searching for high end executive positions, San Francisco jobs offer some of the highest salaries to be found in the country. This fact was confirmed by TheLadders.com’s third-quarter Executive Job Market Tends report, which showed that San Francisco ranked in the top three highest paying cities for such positions. John Roderick, a spokesperson for TheLadders.com com, says that “employers are willing to do whatever it takes to attract much-needed talent.”

Due to the area’s high demand of more experienced workers in the finance, biotech, and IT industries, employers are have no choice but to offer larger salaries in hopes of drawing in the best and most talented individuals from a very limited pool of employees.

San Francisco is most definitely a diverse city. According to an article posted in the San Francisco Chronicle, there are approximately one hundred and twelve different languages or dialects being spoken in the metropolitan area. This makes San Francisco the fifth most linguistically diverse city in the nation. Among this multitude of languages, Spanish is one of the more prevalent spoken.

With 19.89 percent of the population of the Bay Area and 21.19 percent of the Greater Bay Area being Hispanic, it is easy to see why. With approximately 30 percent of the total population being foreign born, it is understandable that there might be some sort of language barrier. Many area businesses maybe losing out on an important part of the population’s business due to this. If one cannot convey their company’s message to an individual because of such a barrier, then the company stands to lose out on a potential profit. Thankfully, Companies looking to fill San Francisco jobs in the area are not out of luck.

Recently Affinity Spanish Language Solutions, a Spanish translation company, has announced that they will be offering their services to San Francisco businesses effective immediately. This company supplies language and business support support to people and organizations to need to communicate with or do business with Spanish speaking individuals.

According to Director Roy McCoy their mission “is to help minimize the potential barriers of language and culture to support dialogue and communication between the English and Spanish speaking populations of the Americas.” Affinity offers translation services in a variety of fields including medical, legal, technical, financial, literary, and marketing. They also translate website content so that it can effectively reach the Spanish speaking population.

Companies in the area who use services of the sort stand to gain by the number of new individuals they maybe able to reach. Web site translation alone can get one’s product out there much more effectively. This also allows Spanish speakers the ability to make more informed decisions about their purchases.

With the increasing Hispanic population in America, it is wise for business to have some sort of plan to assist such customers. If not website translation or outside services, it would be wise to consider employing at least one bi-lingual employee. Having to turn away business simply because a company does not speak Spanish is not only alienating to a significant part of the population, but also damaging to one’s profit margin.