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Applicants Mob Cox Job Fair in California

Atlanta’s Cox Communications held a job fair in Rancho Santa Margarita, California this week, with 750 applicants applying for 60 positions. The jobs pay up to $50,000 a year. Cox Communications is a privately-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable TV provider in [...]

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Teleperformance USA to Cut 250 in Ohio

Teleperformance USA will cut half its employees at its Akron, Ohio call center, laying off 250 people. The firings will start at the end of August, and target managers. Teleperformance says a client, an unnamed major cable company, decided to reduce operations. When the firm came to Akron in 2006, it said it would create over [...]

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ESPN Cutting 100 in Connecticut

Cable sports channel ESPN is laying off 100 employees at its Bristol, Connecticut headquarters. ESPN Chief Executive George Bodenheimer announced layoffs in January. A spokesperson says that new hires should keep the workforce level. ESPN, a subsidiary of Walt Disney, employs about 5,400 people worldwide, including about 3,400 at the Bristol campus. Share This Story:

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CNN Hiring Despite Ad Revenue Losses

CNN will increase its workforce this year and invest in its Internet operations. The cable television news network will scale back investment in technologies rather than fire employees. CNN is hiring 30 workers for its newswire service this year, and plans to recruit more for international news. CNN, owned by Time Warner, is confronting both the recession [...]

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