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The Nashville area's economy is among the most diverse of that in any U.S. region. As a result, Nashville continues to attract the highest-quality workers in all business sectors. Nashville supports many innovative and aggressive local programs to recruit workers to the region.
In an October 2010 poll conducted by Harris Interactive, Nashville ranked as the nation's seventh most popular city. The poll asked people where they would want to live if they could live anywhere in the nation (other than their current home).
Of course, many of Nashville's most valuable workers come from the area's own vast educational system, with its 18 accredited four-year and postgraduate institutions. In the Nashville MSA, 44.9 percent of adults at least 25 years old have one or more years of college education, and more than 45,000 people have graduate or professional degrees.
A free, interactive CD-ROM is also available to showcase why the Nashville region is a great place to "Work Hard, Play Hard, Live Well and Grow Well." Send an e-mail with your name and address to freenashvillecd@nashvillechamber.com and we will mail your free copy today!
Chamber-led workforce initiatives include programming targeted to young professionals, support of public education and higher education, the InternNashville program, partnerships to support HR professionals, and worker attraction and retention.
For the second year, Forbes.com ranked the country's 40 biggest metros on economic opportunity for up-and coming young professionals to gauge which cities are attracting the next generation of top business talent. Nashville was ranked 16th due to factors such as a high concentration of corporate headquarters.
- Forbes.com, September 2008