Short Hills, NJ jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Short Hills

• Health and Benefits Financial/Actuarial - DirectorWTW
• Senior Analyst, Third Party ServicesAxis Capital Holdings
• Claims Manager - Casualty ProgramsAxis Capital Holdings
• Senior Associate - SEC and Financial ReportingBlue Owl Capital
• SVP, Market Segment Portfolio Leader (Corporate Underwriting)Selective Insurance
• Director, Competitive Intelligence (Hybrid)Selective Insurance
• Director Underwriting Learning & Enablement (Hybrid)Selective Insurance
• Commercial Property Insurance Product Analyst/ Senior Commercial Property Insurance Product Analyst (Hybrid)Selective Insurance
• Sr Underwriting Strategy Specialist (Hybrid)Selective Insurance
• Underwriting Practices Analyst-Inland Marine / Sr. Underwriting Practices Analyst-Inland Marine - HybridSelective Insurance

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Employers hiring most in Short Hills

1. Selective Insurance26 open roles
2. Willis Towers Watson4 open roles
3. Axis Capital Holdings2 open roles
4. Confidential2 open roles
5. Advastar1 open role
6. Amadeus Search1 open role
7. AXIS (AXIS Capital)1 open role
8. AXIS Capital1 open role
9. Blue Owl Capital1 open role
10. DLA Piper1 open role

Short Hills layoffs

No layoff notices naming Short Hills in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Essex County outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 5.7% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 4.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 5.1%, down 2.0 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+7,610 jobs), hotels & food (+2,451 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: management of companies (−1,018 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Short Hills. Each link goes to the publisher.

• $70 million sale is costing more than 100 N.J. workers their jobs at E-ZPass service centerYahoo Finance · Nov 6, 2026
• Conduent to lay off 113 Newark employees in tolling business saleNJBIZ · Oct 30, 2026
• M&M maker to lay off dozens of employees in early 2027Staten Island Advance · Oct 21, 2026
• Candy giant to lay off 55 more N.J. employeesNJ.com · Oct 21, 2026
• Newark HelloFresh workers sue over alleged physical abuse, ICE threats and mass layoffsWestchester - News 12 · Oct 21, 2026
• Prudential Insurance plans 125 more job cuts, bringing N.J.’s layoff tally to 267 for yearNJ.com · Sep 30, 2026

Learn and get funded in Short Hills

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• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
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• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Short Hills. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in New Jersey? How to file for unemployment in New Jersey (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• Essex County Workforce Development Board

  Essex

• Newark Workforce Development Board

  City: Newark

Essex County economy

• 5.1%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  7.1% the month before

• 427,804

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 854,130

  people in Essex County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $76,712

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 42%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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