Politicians talk about it. Business executives talk about it. The unemployed and underemployed certainly talk about it. What is it? It is job creation. And job creation typically comes from small, profitable companies.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses represent 99.7% of all employer firms. In other words, most companies are actually small companies. For your reference, technically a "small company" is 500 or fewer employees. Most small companies actually employ less than 50 employees.

Further, the Small Business Administration says that small companies employ just over half of all private sector jobs. They pay 44% of total U.S. private payroll, and have generated 64% of the new jobs over the past 15 years. Wow. Read that again, small, privately held companies have generated almost two thirds of the new jobs created over the last 15 years. Sounds like a good place to conduct your job search, doesn't it?