The South Bay
is alive with more key industry clusters than just about anywhere
else in the nation. These clusters include aerospace, bioscience,
business services, and communications, transportation, hospitality,
and medical services among others. Click on industry clusters to
read the complete South Bay cluster analysis.
Within each
cluster are a wide variety of industries, each hiring employees
holding high school diplomas, undergraduate and graduate science,
math, and engineering degrees. Most companies provide varying degrees
of skill training, constantly keeping their knowledge workers at
the leading edge expertise required of information driven industries.
In many situations
high school graduates find themselves working alongside a Ph.D.
helping develop products for use in deep space, non-invasive surgical
procedures, or homeland security programs. This region's product
is knowledge and among our key assets is the knowledge worker. There's
heavy emphasis on education and skills training, both of which are
available to the job seeker in a variety of formats.
