The News Review:
- TC career fair scheduled April 7
- San Jose career counselors feel weight of downturn
- Michigan looks to jump-start stalled careers
- Job fair draws 2000 Pittsburgh Business Times
TC career fair scheduled April 7
News-Leader.com
event will be in room 100 of the Information Commons West on TC’s main campus. The community is invited. The Career Fair offers an opportunity for potential employees to meet company representatives discuss employment options and distribute resumes to more than 30 different employers from around the zarks. Companies represented this year include Best Buy CoxHealth System Prime Inc. Developmental Center of the zarks Silver Dollar City Attractions zarks Public Broadcasting T-Mobile and Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation. Booth space is still available; registration for employers is $40. For details call Kathy Christy director of Career Employment Services at 447-6963 or.
San Jose career counselors feel weight of downturn
San Jose Mercury News
” It’s a title more befitting a Disneyland greeter than an intake nurse for the emotionally wounded at this working-world trauma unit. As one of 52 employees at the city-run Work2future job center in San Jose Doniz sees the ravages of the recession unfold before her in the frown of the laid-off Coca-Cola salesman in the restless hands of the software engineer whose startup has crashed along with his self-esteem. For Doniz and her colleagues at the “one-stop” center which helps train job seekers and direct them to employment opportunities the desperation can seem almost contagious at times. “It’s heart-wrenching to see people struggling like this” the Guatemala-born single mother of two told the Mercury News. “But especially now with this economy we all need to look at ourselves as a community. It’s stressful at times but knowing I’m supporting others helps take the load off. “Eyes flashing fingers flailing Advertisement yld_mgr.
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Michigan looks to jump-start stalled careers
msnbc.com
?Launched in August 2007 Michigan?s ?No Worker Left Behind? free-tuition program has put 61434 unemployed workers many of them from the automotive industry through accredited programs to accelerate their transition to new industries. Each worker receives up to $10000 to pay for training at an approved training program or institution as long as they train for work in in-demand sectors like health care or ?green-collar? industries. The classes that propelled Crouterfield into a new career were paid for by the program and Levin holds it up as a success story in the state?s attempt to retrain its growing pool of jobless manufacturing workers. Crouterfield attended the Pre-Chemical Process perator ?Fast Start? Program originally developed to train Dow Chemical workers. Former auto industry workers who have gone through the program also have found jobs at Dow Chemical and also at Hemlock Semiconductor which makes the silicon used in computer chips and solar panels and has invested $1 billion locally. Hemlock Dow Chemical and Dow Corning which also specializes in silicon-based technology expect to make over 100 new hires in the region each year for the next five years. All but six of the program?s 17 recent graduates are now starting jobs paying between $13 and $20 an hour plus benefits.
Job fair draws 2000 Pittsburgh Business Times
Bizjournals.com
us Digg This Around 2000 job seekers lined the interior of Mellon Arena on Tuesday during a career fair put on by the Employment Guide and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh. The organizations pegged the event as part of the “Putting America Back to Work” Job Fair Series and invited more than 40 area companies to recruit including H&R Block Giant Eagle Parkvale Bank Verizon Wireless CynaMed Healthcare and the City of Pittsburgh. Attendance at the tri-annual event was markedly higher than in previous years said representatives for the Employment Guide.