NAICS and Internet Job Searches

All organizations are assigned classification codes by industry by the US Government.  Many organizations are assigned several industry codes since they do business in products and services in multiple industries.

The NAICS (National American Industry Classification System) numbering system employs six-digit code at the most detailed industry level. The first five digits are generally (although not always strictly) the same in all three countries. The last digit designates national industries. The first two digits designate the largest business sector, the third digit designates the subsector, the fourth digit designates the industry group, and the fifth digit designates particular industries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Industry_Classification_System#History

NAICS was developed under the auspices of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and adopted in 1997 to replace the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. It was developed jointly by the U.S. Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC), Statistics Canada , and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia , to allow for a high level of comparability in business statistics among the North American countries.

So you may be asking me “why do I want to know about NAICS?”  Using the NAICS code in your job search argument, you may be able to identify jobs available in your target industries.  Here is an example:

Let’s say you are interested in employment in a child day care service organization.  Using Google, Yahoo, Bing, or another search engine, with the following search argument: “jobs 624410” (the NAICA code for child day care services), you get many results.  However, here is one of the responses:

jobs.utah.gov/jsp/firmfind/EmpbyInd.do;jsessionid...

30+ items – Employers in Child Day Care Services - Statewide ...

Company Name	Address
A AND J SMITH UNLIMITED	764 N 200 W LOGAN UT 84321
A CHILDS WORLD INC	1017 E 600 S SAINT GEORGE UT 847905547

I continue to experiment with this technique.  Please give it a try and share your results with readers of this blog or email me at glynjordan@gmail.com.  

Thanks.   Glyn