The News Review:
- Career Couch Getting Up in Years and Getting the Job
- Arizona Women’s Education and Employment receives $804K in grants
- State unemployment rate reaches 10.1%
Career Couch Getting Up in Years and Getting the Job
New York Times
Riordan stressed that older workers can take a proactive approach to overcoming those concerns in their résumés and in interview conversations by staying focused on long-term objectives. (If you feel you have been discriminated against because of your age contact a lawyer who specializes in employment law but keep in mind that age discrimination is very hard to prove unless the interviewer has made a statement directly related to your age. Should you be direct about your age on your résumé or is that likely to knock you out of contention?A. Never lie about your age. At the same time you can take steps to minimize attention to it.
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.
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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.