Charlottesville, Virginia’s Department of Economic Development is hosting a job fair today at the Omni Hotel. Seventy employers seek to fill more than 300 positions in the Charlottesville area. As many as 1,000 applicants are expected to attend. More than 500 job-seekers attended last year’s event, which featured hosted more than 100 recruiters from employers like Wal-Mart [...]
Continue reading...24. February 2009
The fashion industry is gearing up to unveil its spring lines to shoppers, but the department store Barneys New York may not have anything to unveil. Hilldun Corporation, a top factoring firm, has suspended its accounts with Barneys for at least a week. Another factoring company, Rosenthal & Rosenthal Inc., is also said to have put [...]
Continue reading...29. January 2009
Mass Layoffs, which are layoffs involving 50 or more workers, increased by one third in 2008. The rapidity of these mass layoffs has increased even more in the early days of 2009. According to the Labor Department, 21,137 mass layoffs happened last year. That’s compared to 15,493 in 2007. It’s the highest annual total since 2001 [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2009
Those in Beavercreek, Ohio, who have been victimized by the massive national layoffs may just get another chance at a career. The area recently opened a new school for training intelligence analysts for government and business. Several top businessmen took a tour of the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center for Human Capital Development [...]
Continue reading...14. January 2009
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From EmploymentCrossing: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sedgwick County, Kansas saw a 1.8% employment increase, making it the 25th largest from June 2007 to June 2008 for the 335 largest counties in the United States. The county also saw a 1.3% employment increase from Q2 of 2007 to 2008. Sedgwick, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Johnson counties — [...]
Continue reading...2. January 2009
From EmploymentCrossing.com: In Clatsop County, Oregon, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has jumped again from 6% in October to 6.4% in November. The rate rose from 4.9% in September to 6% in October as thousands of jobs evaporated across the nation. The county’s November rate was below the statewide rate of 8.1% and the national rate of [...]
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27. April 2009
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