Get back to work: 10 sectors that are actually hiring right now

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If the July unemployment numbers made you want to stick your head in the oven, take some heart. Some business sectors are actually hiring right now. Your challenge is to figure out how to get yourself trained for a job in one of them.

Tig Gilliam, the CEO of Adecco Group North America -- the world's largest recruiter and provider of temporary workers -- says some sectors of the economy actually look pretty good. Adecco Group finds 120,000 people work on any given day and is a Fortune Global 500 company. You want to work? Consider these fields:

Auto Manufacturing: In July, the auto industry added 20,500 jobs, with a 9,100 job increase in fabricated metal jobs. While most of this was likely because the automakers took a month off from shutting down factories, Gilliam believes the trend will continue.

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