The News Review:
- TC career fair scheduled April 7
- Bay Area Based Stride Center Joins nline Employment Search utlet
- It Has Computers Gives Advice and Is Free
- County sees slight jump in jobless rate
- County college to host career and education expo
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.
Bay Area Based Stride Center Joins nline Employment Search utlet
PR Newswire (press release)
The Stride Center partnership continues Jobing. com’s practice of offering job seekers additional training and workforce development and exposes employers to a greater pool of prospective job candidates. “Through The Stride Center’s programs we continue to provide men and women with the technical job training and career development skills necessary to become economically self-sufficient” said Barrie Hathaway The Stride Center’s Executive Director. “By partnering with Jobing. com we hope to increase their employment readiness and relevance by providing access to the most thorough and up-to-date listing of available jobs in the Bay Area while elevating our overall presence and visibility on the web. ” The Stride Center is a nonprofit social enterprise that prepares its adult students for careers in information technology. Disadvantaged men and women come to learn new skills through a variety of programs helping them achieve their goals of finding well-paying vibrant new careers.
It Has Computers Gives Advice and Is Free
New York Times
Morris 31 had been unemployed for eight months and did not have the money. But he had amassed an armful of library books he needed to prepare for an exam that was part of the application process for a job at Con Edison and he also needed a library card to browse online classified sites. So he asked if he could work off his debt.
County sees slight jump in jobless rate
The Tennessean
Jobless individuals do have options Hiers said. Through a partnership between the Tennessee Department of Labor and the Nashville Career Advancement Center the Career Center not only provides a list of available employment but also a series of workshops to advance individual skills. “If we feel that they’re not job-ready then we send them to the workshops” Hiers said. The workshops offer tutorials that cover topics such as interviewing skills r?m?uilding using the Internet to search for jobs and how to work a job fair among others. By assisting job seekers in polishing their existing skills and training them for new ones the staff at the Career Center is preparing them for future employment. However just how far into the future new employment will become available is unknown.
County college to host career and education expo
Vineland Daily Journal
“These are extraordinarily difficult times and it calls upon all of us to be extraordinarily creative” Magazzu said. “We believe in being proactive in Cumberland County and this collaboration is just one example of that. “The goal of the expo is two-fold according to Dante Rieti executive director of the county Employment and Training ffice. The first mission is to provide residents with information on the seven high-growth career areas in the county as designated by the state Department of Labor while linking people to the proper training for those job fields. Those job fields include health care law and public safety transportation and logistics infrastructure construction business services food science and safety and “green-collar jobs” — those that focus on the growing use of renewable energy. “ne thing that I hear all of the time is that there are no jobs out there” Rieti said. “There are some ripe pieces of fruit on the labor tree but you need the right skills to pick it.
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