The Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio is hosting a career fair on August 27th. An undisclosed number of mid-career positions are available, in logistics, finance, supply-chain management, engineering, contracting, and data management. The starting salary for most of the jobs is $69,000. Job candidates must be US citizens; will need security [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Cleveland-based bank KeyCorp cut 300 jobs in its fiscal Q2 2009. KeyCorp, which now employs 17,000, has shown 1,000 employees the door in the last 12 months. KeyBank is a bank headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. As of 2007, it is the 16th largest bank in the US based on total deposits, and the 12th largest bank by [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 8, 2009
M&T Bank is completing its buyout of Baltimore, Maryland’s Provident Bankshares, and will cut 520 Provident jobs. The laid off employees will get first crack at 282 new jobs that M&T is creating as it expands its Buffalo, New York mortgage servicing unit. Openings include information technology, central operations, finance, mortgage and call center jobs. M&T Bank was [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 8, 2009
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, is opening a satellite office in Jacksonville, Florida, and will hire 500 temporary workers. The office will launch in September. The agency needs 500 employees and contractors to help the FDIC deal with bank closures. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation created by the Glass-Steagall Act [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 26, 2009
American Express will hold another round of layoffs, after cutting 7,000 jobs in October 2008, decimating its work force. The credit card concern also froze salaries at that time. The number of employees who will be affected was not released. American Express Company is a diversified global financial services company that is headquartered in New York City, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Johns Hopkins University will hold a job fair on May 2, to fill specialized science and administrative positions. The jobs will be created with research funding from the federal stimulus package. They will include positions for laboratory techs, IT professionals, grants & contracts administrators, and financial pros. The positions would last at least 18 months [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 16, 2009
According to Reuters, banks, insurers and asset managers worldwide have announced 373,760 job cuts since August 2007. The five firms that top the list for layoffs are Citigroup with 75,000 jobs cut; Bank of America with 45,500; JP Morgan with 23,700; UBS with 19,700; and HSBC with 16,250. Collapsed Lehman Brothers made about 6,000 job cuts made [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 10, 2009
United Services Automobile Association is moving 240 California and Virginia jobs to its operations center in San Antonio, Texas. In February, the financial services firm announced the closure of the company’s Sacramento office and part of its Norfolk, Virginia office, as part of a plan to consolidate office space to reduce overall expenses. There are 625 workers [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 7, 2009
First Niagara Financial Group will add more than 100 jobs in upstate New York. The bank has agreed to purchase 57 National City Bank branches in Pennsylvania. National City sold the offices as part of its December merger into PNC Bank. First Niagara will retain all 500 jobs in the 57 branches, and add 50 to 75 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 4, 2009
Wisconsin’s AnchorBank will shutter branch offices in Madison, Neenah and Oshkosh later this year. The move will eliminate 19 positions. AnchorBank will be left with 73 Wisconsin offices, and more than 1,100 employees. The affected employees will be given priority for vacant positions within the company. AnchorBank is owned by Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin, which lost $167.3 million during the [...]
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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