On the Job Hunt: North Dakota rich in jobs due to boom in oil industry
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When it comes to jobs, they say they need everything from A to Z, just like the Yellow Pages.

The once rural town of Williston, N.D., is projected to double -- and maybe even triple -- in the next five years because it is in the heart of what the locals refer to as the rockin' Bakken, an oil and gas rich swath of western North Dakota.  

Technical advances in energy exploration and production have made it possible to get much more out of the ground here. As North Dakota has outrun Alaska and leaped into the No. 2 spot for production, it's feeding all sorts of demand in the state with the lowest unemployment in the nation.

Unemployed residents of other states have been migrating to the Peace Garden State in search of work. 

"We're able to find workers which, otherwise, if we'd been on full employment, it would have been hard to get people to move to a rural area like this" says Tom Rolfstad, executive director of Williston Economic Development.


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