The News Review:
- Plump Up Your Paycheck: Steer your career to one of these hot jobs
- Career Calendar
- Vets: Work in civilian world hard to find
- Unemployment Rates Increase in KC – Hiring Event Coming
- Landing a better job just got a lot easier
- DOLE fears displacement of seafarers due to crisis
Plump Up Your Paycheck: Steer your career to one of these hot jobs
Computerworld, MA
” Watkins says he was recently contacted through one of his. After interviewing for the position and receiving an offer, he decided to take the job, since it included a 20% salary increase and good benefits, including profit sharing after two years of employment.
Career Calendar
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
Sponsors: Library and WorkForce Centers-Employment Action Center. Counselors from the Dislocated Workers Program will offer tips about job-search skills and answer job and career questions. Job hunting on and off the Internet.
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Vets: Work in civilian world hard to find
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
“,”body”:”to think these folks who have served us aren’t able to find jobs. There would be at least a little comfort in thinking these brave people who serve our nation might be able to find some employment, while we civilians can’t. Not to say we do not also deserve employment. it is just these fine men and women put their lives on the line and now they have come home to find their economic lives are on the line as well. Very sad state of affairs for us all, I am afraid.
Unemployment Rates Increase in KC – Hiring Event Coming
MyFox Kansas City, MO
But in Kansas City proper, the situation is considerably worse. Workers at the Missouri Career Center said it’s not uncommon to see 1,500 people a week needing assistance in their job hunt. "For the most part, many of these people have never used a workforce office like ours in their life," said Clyde McQueen, director of the Missouri Career Center. McQueen is also president of the Full Employment Council, which crunched Kansas City’s employment numbers. It found the city’s unemployment ranks higher than the nation’s at eight percent. "The number of people looking for jobs is increasing three to 400 percent, the number of jobs available is actually decreasing," said McQueen. And the numbers are alarming.
Landing a better job just got a lot easier
Times Online, UK
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DOLE fears displacement of seafarers due to crisis
Philippine Star, Philippines
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque warned the people that the economic crisis is expected to cause a tourism slump that might adversely affect the employment of Filipino seafarers on board international cruise ships. “There have been already reports of a slump in tourism, including sea-based tourism. This is a concern because one out of five seafarers — or 47,782 out of 226,900 we deployed in 2007 — are working on board passenger or cruise ships,” Roque noted. “Our primary consideration is the continued employment of our seafarers in the face of the real possibility of an employment crunch that the financial crisis is expected to bring about,” Roque added.