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- Arizona Women’s Education and Employment receives $804K in grants
- State unemployment rate reaches 10.1%
- DSU to host 12th annual Job Fair
- ES Careers Launches New No-Cost Employment Website That Makes Job …
- Work for teens scarcer as elders defer retirement
- More stay at university as jobs dry up
Arizona Women’s Education and Employment receives $804K in grants
Bizjournals.com
Department of Labor and Maricopa County to launch two programs aimed at helping individuals resume productive lives after serving prison terms. Arizona Women’s Education and Employment received a grant capped at $500000 from Maricopa County for the Passages (Pathways to Success Security and Gainful Employment Solutions) program and a $304000 grant from the U. Department of Labor for the Career (Career Access for Successful Reentry Employment and Reintegration) Paths program. The Passages program aims to provide 100 qualified ex-offenders 18 years and older with the mentoring job training and comprehensive transitional services they need to find sustainable work when they return to their communities. Participants will be required to meet a variety of qualification criteria and to reside in one of the South Phoenix neighborhoods identified as having particularly high rates of crime and incarceration.
State unemployment rate reaches 10.1%
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> A state Employment Development Department report issued Friday said California lost 79300 payroll jobs in January. Nearly 1 million Californians are out of work due to layoffs. The department said California’s unemployment rate during the modern era peaked at 11 percent at the end of 1982 during another severe recession. During the Great Depression the unemployment rate went as high as 25 percent a department spokeswoman said. Stephen Levy of the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy said that during the early 1980s the state jobless rate stayed above 10 percent for 12 months.
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DSU to host 12th annual Job Fair
Dickinson State University
Recruiters will be on hand to share employment facts and information about individual job opportunities and to guide interested candidates in the application process. Applicants are encouraged to arrive with several copies of their resumes along with copies of any licenses or certificates for specialty areas and to dress professionally. “The event will provide an opportunity for on-site interviews and contingent job offers of employment” said Bonnie Bohlman director of Career Services and host of the event. Job Fair 2009 is sponsored by DSU Career Services in partnership with Job Service North Dakota and Clear Channel Radio of Dickinson. For additional information contact Bonnie Bohlman at DSU Career Services 701-483-2370.
ES Careers Launches New No-Cost Employment Website That Makes Job …
FXBusiness
The site offers a no-cost policy to job seekers and employers using an excellent interface that generates a positive networking solution for employment opportunities. What’s interesting about ES Careers is that they are not trying to sell you anything and the launch of a site of this magnitude allows for improving the logistical services of employment-oriented facilities to emerge and offer solid client support with an inspired interface design that could provide current growth incentives and future expansion in the U. Anyone can go to the site and browse through the numerous informative pages at absolutely no cost.
Work for teens scarcer as elders defer retirement
Boston Globe
“Whitley and Palliola represent what a new study identifies as a worrisome trend. As older Americans by necessity or choice work beyond traditional retirement ages young men and women are increasingly shut out from the job market according to the study by researchers at Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. Since the beginning of the decade the employment rate or percentage of people working has declined broadly for Americans under 30 with teens hardest hit according to the study. The percentage of working US teens plunged to 33 percent or 1 in 3 in 2008 from 45 percent in 2000 or nearly 1 in 2. Meanwhile the percentage of working adults over 55 rose to 38 percent nationally from 32 percent. The trend is similar in Massachusetts. The employment rate of adults over 55 rose to 39 percent from 33 percent during this period while the percentage of working teens fell sharply to 38 percent from 48 percent.
More stay at university as jobs dry up
NEWS.com.au
"It never hurts to get a higher qualification. But it is more important now because of what is happening with the economy" Mr Toe said. More than 50 leading education institutions and employment providers are booked for the Reinvent Your Career Expo at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre next weekend. "The current global economic meltdown has only served to accelerate what was inevitable – workers need to increase their value" organiser Nicholas Ricciuti said. Share this article.