Service Management Jobs and MBA Programs in Illinois

There are plenty of job and employment prospects for service worker managers in Illinois. In Illinois, there are currently 3,920 jobs for service worker managers and this is projected to grow by 14 percent to 6,810 jobs by 2016. This growth falls short of the projected rise of the national job pool for service worker managers, which shows an increase of 15 percent over the next 10 years. In general, service worker managers supervise and coordinate activities of personal service workers.

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State figures show that service worker managers in Illinois earn $19 per hour or $39,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $18 hourly or $38,000 per year on average.

Nicknamed the Land of Lincoln, Illinois is home to 12,910,409 people. It's population has increased 4.0 percent over the last 10 years. The state capital is Springfield. There were 7,657,328 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Illinois earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $42,540, up from $41,720. The unemployment rate in Illinois was 10.1 percent in 2009. It went up by 3.7 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 26.1 percent. This is under the national average.

The top employing fields in Illinois include construction machinery merchant wholesalers, distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers, nonchocolate confectionery manufacturing and other prepared sauce manufacturing.

Illinois is known for having important landmarks. The Sears Tower, Chicago is the tallest building on the North American continent. One of the many things Illinois is known for, Carlyle is the home of the largest man-made lake in Illinois.

Service Management

Service worker managers supervise and coordinate activities of personal service workers.

While working, they collaborate with staff members to plan and develop programs of events, schedules of activities, or menus. Also, they analyze and record personnel and operational data, and write related activity reports.

They are required to make use of strategies for learning about new situations and problems as they arise and note the reactions and responses of others in both work and social situations.

Service worker managers must be able to articulate ideas and problems. They should also have the ability to listen to and understand others in meetings.

In order to be successful in the workplace, service worker managers must have strong self control in the face of challenging situations and be able to deal with stress and deal with situations calmly.