The First Things First Alaska Foundation is an educational organization that is tax deductible, and endeavors to educate and promote jobs for the Southeast Alaskan population. Currently with the decline in jobs that are of a livable wage, this area has been losing most of its youth as they move to where the jobs are. Tourism was the main industry pulling in money, but unfortunately most of the tourism jobs are seasonal and not very high paying. Another industry that is making quite a big impact in terms of job growth and economic growth in the area is gold mining. The Kensington gold mine is working together with Greens Creek and is now offering high paying jobs to families. The First Things First Alaska Foundation is also working to bring back more jobs in government, fishing, research, w...

Alaska can look forward to some excellent exposure on the silver screen thanks to film maker Ken Burns. In his new 6 part documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” many of Alaska’s greatest natural treasures are given the spotlight. This is hoped to benefit Alaska in terms of exposure for their wildlife conservation as well as boost the tourism industry. A major sponsor of the documentary was the Alaska Cruise Association, and its president, John Binkley stated that it would “… get Alaska’s name out there.” The documentary covers how the system of the National Parks was started in America. It is a story of people from the rich to the poor, idealists, the famous, and more who wanted to preserve portions of the land for future generations. The Denali National Par...

With up to date resources, current jobs that are just waiting for your application, resume and job advice, among other benefits, the various job finder websites offer you, the job seeker a host of brilliant reasons to become a member. If you love the thrill and adventure behind the cruise liner industry, then you will love searching for a cruise ship job in the member’s area of Cruise Job Finder. If you dream of becoming a pilot, but have no idea where to start, then joining Airline Job Finder is perfect for you. Working in Alaska as an ice road trucker, king crab fisherman, or at a processing plant will see you earning a large salary, so to get in on the action, become a member of Alaska Job Finder. The oil and gas industry might be calling you, and you can search and apply for current ...

Alaska offers the determined job seeker plenty of opportunities to make a lot of money in various industries including ice road trucking, king crab fishing, working at national parks, and of course working on commercial fishing vessels. The life on board a fishing boat in the Arctic is not the easiest one and besides being very dangerous, can include long, weary hours of work. According to one seasoned fisherman, you can sometimes work for 15 or 16 hours a day, and the pay varies according to what you catch that day, being commission based. Whilst some days bring in about $800 for a deckhand, other particularly bad days can earn you as little as a few cents. Working in Alaska on a fishing vessel allows you to see and experience a different part of the world, and you can learn a lot from a ...

In Alaska, many of the jobs are dangerous such as the commercial crab fishing out in the freezing Bering Sea, but another very dangerous, yet exciting job that pays extremely well, is that of an ice road trucker. During the winter months when the oceans are frozen over, massive trucks will be crossing on a continuous basis to deliver goods and supplies. These truck drivers not only get paid a high salary, but medical insurance, disability insurance, bonus pay, and more. The ice road truckers work for about 4 months of the year driving over the frozen ocean, and many have been doing this for more than 20 years. You can earn a lot of money in Alaska doing this and after a while you can even start training and teaching new drivers how to work in these difficult and dangerous conditions. Aside...

A recent year-long study off the coast of Alaska in the Outer Continental Shelf by the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research and Northern Economics Inc, has revealed that a new development could create 35 000 jobs throughout the state every year. This Outer Continental Shelf Development will offer much needed job security and new jobs for the major cities in Alaska as well as the more rural areas creating a 5 percent statewide increase in the population. This is great news for Alaska’s economy, because aside from the actual development that will create oil jobs and gas jobs in Alaska, it will also provide additional opportunities for travel jobs, tour guide jobs, Alaskan fishing jobs, and much more. Shell Exploration and Production was responsible f...

This week the number of active oil rigs in the United States dropped to 1243, making a decline of 57 altogether. Most of the oil rigs have been listed as searching for natural gas (970), while 260 of them have been looking for oil, and 13 are listed as miscellaneous. The largest oil producing states have been affected the most with Texas losing 26 oil rigs, 7 each being lost by Colorado, Louisiana, and New Mexico, 4 were lost by North Dakota, Oklahoma lost 10, and Wyoming have lost 2. On the other side of the scale Alaska oil seems to be booming as they gained 4 new oil rigs this week. Arkansas also added one. Alaska seems to be the best place at the moment to work on board an oil rig, so make sure you search all the oil rig jobs on Oil Job Finder. At Oil Job Finder you can become a member...

Along with the much anticipated salmon and halibut fishing season, Ninilchik in Alaska is also promoting clam digging this year with the minus tides offering some excellent razor clams. You will just need to confirm the tides before heading off with your bucket to do clam digging. As far as the King Salmon fishing is concerned, the Deep Creek, Ninilchik River and Anchor River will be open from the Memorial Day Weekend and every Wednesday after that for fishing through to the 18th June 2009.  Another plus for the season is that the limit for King Salmon that may be taken from the Anchor River has been increased to 5 per year, while from the Deep Creek it is still at 2 per year. The boundary fishing areas for King Salmon and Halibut has also been increased slightly. If you want to get in on...

One of the most stunning locations in Alaska where you can find lots of jobs at any time of year is the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The Glacier Bay Park offers many different wonderful ecosystems including tide water glaciers, fjords, freshwater rivers and lakes, ocean coastlines, unique flora and fauna, hemlock forests, and more. The animals that you can find at Glacier Bay National Park include plenty of marine life as this park is always closer than 30 miles to the coast and over fifth of the park is ocean. Humpback Whales, all kinds of fish, Minke Whales, Killer Whales, Dall’s Porpoises, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters are just some of the marine wildlife that you can see here. On land you will find lots of bears and moose, as well as wolves, coyotes, marmots, mountain goats, a...

If you have a love for fishing and enjoy the competition behind sport fishing, then perhaps you can also make money showing other people how to enjoy this sport. Even better, you can find tons of sport fishing jobs in the gorgeous state of Alaska, so you can work and be on a vacation as well. Sport fishing is one of the main activities offered at all hotels, resorts, and lodges especially in the reserves around Alaska. The scenic, remote locations provide the ultimate fisherman’s playground. You can fish for numerous game fish, but one of the most popular is the King Salmon, which is found predominantly in the Sitka region. The Kenai River is another location that offers an abundance of fish including King Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Dolly Vardon, Silver Salmon, and Red Salmon...