In a recent Los Angeles Times article, the unemployment rate is still really high and more and more people are losing their jobs. This happens also at the beginning of the twenty first century during the dot com crash where a lot of people with tech jobs lost their jobs and are scrambling big time for the supply of the jobs. Most tech people ended up driving a cab or doing something else. It should be noted that at this time, a lot of people are going back to school to acquire new skills to improve their marketability. Some would take a master’s degree.

For working visa employees, most of them are sent back to their home countries if they still cannot sustain any employment. Remember that their visa is sponsored by the company who hired them. If the employee could not find a new employer willing to sponsor them, then their working visa status is in big joepardy.
Health care careers are probably one industry that are very steady in hiring. Nurses are still in demand but companies are somewhat slowing down on the hiring as well. Pharmacist are still very in demand and lucrative even at this economy. The doctors and physician assistants are also growing in demand because of shortages. Did I mention college professors? As much as you can see lay offs on the teachers in the elementary school, college professors demand would probably increase because unemployed usually return to college to improve their skill set or acquire new ones to change careers.