Best companies to work for in New Orleans?

What companies are fueling growth in New Orleans? Why are they a great employer?

Honestly.... there are none. New Orleans has traditionally, and for years, relied on tourism as the largest component of their economy. Therefore, they actually prefer to use transient, young and inexperienced employees (i.e. CHEAP) for those positions which require any direct handling of tourists. Those that don't require direct tourist contact... go to... guess who? I don't think I EVER saw one person of color (aka NOT WHITE) working in any type of professional capacity... not even as a bank teller. Hotel cleaning and restaurant dishwashing seems to be the furthest blacks can rise in New Orleans. New Orleans is kidding itself if I thinks that the government (or corporations) will heavily invest in its rebuilding until it takes care of its own rather embarassing racism.

As a white person working in New Orleans, I found that oppression seems to be the predominant management style. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that employers feel down right threatened by anyone who has experience and the guts to actually be successful in a town which clearly reserves it's benefits to the select few.

New Orleans is good for a long weekend visit... but even before Katrina... the city just has too many problems and too much rampant fear to get out of its own way...and trying to change the place (or even one's experience or interpretation of it) is like hitting one's head against the wall.

Mayor=Black man
Chief of police=Black Man
Sheriff of Orleans parish = Black man

Man when you write something negative please make sure you have the right information If not you sound un-educated.
About 35% of america refined oil comes frome the southeastern part of Louisiana
75% Of the seafood in the usa comes from new orleans and surrounding areas.
apparently you're not from here so maybe you don't know what new Orleans is about, but I can tell you it's one of the best cities in the world.

Thanks
A proud New Orleanian

NOLA Escapee in New York, New York said: Honestly.... there are none. New Orleans has traditionally, and for years, relied on tourism as the largest component of their economy. Therefore, they actually prefer to use transient, young and inexperienced employees (i.e. CHEAP) for those positions which require any direct handling of tourists. Those that don't require direct tourist contact... go to... guess who? I don't think I EVER saw one person of color (aka NOT WHITE) working in any type of professional capacity... not even as a bank teller. Hotel cleaning and restaurant dishwashing seems to be the furthest blacks can rise in New Orleans. New Orleans is kidding itself if I thinks that the government (or corporations) will heavily invest in its rebuilding until it takes care of its own rather embarassing racism.

As a white person working in New Orleans, I found that oppression seems to be the predominant management style. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that employers feel down right threatened by anyone who has experience and the guts to actually be successful in a town which clearly reserves it's benefits to the select few.

New Orleans is good for a long weekend visit... but even before Katrina... the city just has too many problems and too much rampant fear to get out of its own way...and trying to change the place (or even one's experience or interpretation of it) is like hitting one's head against the wall.

To the OP, please go back to NY. We hate your kind here. You are not from here and you have no idea what you are talking about. The great unwashed North is calling you... Run, Run, Run....

"Please go back to NY. We hate your kind here. You are not from here and have no idea (of) what you are talking about". MY POINT HAS BEEN MADE OH WHITE RESPONDENTS. WHERE Y'ALL GOT YOUR WHITE HOODS? UNDER YOU WENDY'S UNIFORM?

New Orleans has a rich cultural heritage--Spanish, French, Creole, Cajun, and finally American--that complicates the historical racial divisions beyond defining it in simple terms such as "black" or "white." To do so is to forget the fact that many creole elites have dominated New Orleans politics for generations. Another random fact, New Orleans had the first black statesman, the lieutenant governor.

Although New Orleans used to be America's biggest port city, the Hudson Canal ensured its rival, New York, economic domination over New Orleans. Since then, however, New Orleans has thrived culturally in a way most people cannot explain. There is something romantic about its slow pace, its purple skies, the steam boat blowing in the distance; that make visitors stay. It may be "inefficient" and everyone here knows politics here are pretty dirty (then again, where in America is it not?); but in New Orleans, you feel that life is worth living.

I would hate if New Orleans ever became as "efficient" as the northeast. The New York subway seems more like a slave ship, everyone is stressed, miserable, no one makes contact or talks to each other. If this is what you mean by "trying to change the place," I'm personally thankful that you decided to leave. This clearly is not the city for you. In New Orleans, things go slowly because life for New Orleanians is not about efficiency, but enjoyment. There are many Clevelands in America, but there is only one New Orleans. I went to public school in New Orleans, 75% black, and now attend Tulane University which is predominantly white, has more than 75% out of state students, most from the North East, particularly from New York. I have a lot of New Yorker friends, they are incredible people, and love the city. Most are going to stay here after they graduate. They too preach about racism. It is interesting to note, however, how terrified they look when they realize they're in the hood.

Oh, and considering that you believe yourself intellectually superior and find the need to correct other people's spelling, I'm sure you meant "under you(R) Wendy's uniform." Maybe you just couldn't get a job in New Orleans because you are STUPID :)

I arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 2007; during my volunteering time it was a learning experience for me but at the same time; I experience and saw a lot of things that should have not happened here in the United States of America. This country is not and does not want to pick up New Orleans and put it back on the map; Shame on America, for having their sister city and fellow countrymen in New Orleans,forgotten.

If you can get on with the oil companies you'll be set.
The job market has improved whereas the rest of the US is struggling. My family is considering moving back for job opportunities if you can believe that.