The News Review:
- State-sponsored career fair is coming to Emmonak
- Hundreds flock to SWIC job fair
- Give your career boot camp training
- Edison State College announces career stimulus program
- College seniors cringe at poor job market
State-sponsored career fair is coming to Emmonak
Tundra Drums
“Nobody has to be without hope” she said. “Nobody in Alaska has to believe that they’re stuck somewhere and they have to look to somebody else to provide for them. ”To that end the State of Alaska is providing an avenue to potential employment when it holds a career fair April 20 in Emmonak the center of publicized attention for rural Alaska’s struggles. Palin spoke of the state’s mining fisheries and oil jobs saying they allow people to earn good money without permanently leaving villages. The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced the fair in a March 27 press release stating the event is open to all area residents. Yet less than two weeks before the fair news of its status had not run rampant through the village. “It’s going to be interesting” said Dora Christine Moore an Emmonak resident and the unit manager for the village’s Boys and Girls Club.
Hundreds flock to SWIC job fair
Belleville News Democrat
Williams was joined by hundreds of her classmates SWIC alumni and members of the community visiting 75 businesses represented at the fair. “We were lucky to get that many employers who are hiring” said Darlene Beisiegel a job developer at SWIC’s Career Activities and Employment Center. At the same event a year ago 98 businesses were looking for new employees. But many of those places are on hiring freezes aren’t hiring or just had layoffs Beisiegel said. “That has a lot to do with the economy” she said. Beisiegel estimated more than 700 people attended the job fair.
Give your career boot camp training
Examiner.com
They know they’re going to need all the help they can get in finding jobs and beginning their careers and they’re willing to go the extra mile to get that help. While New York City is the location young adults who live anywhere are welcome and can benefit. College students and recent grads are facing the worst job market in 30 years and their challenges to employment are far greater than their predecessors. They are dealing with unprecedented statistics: College grads face stiff competition among each other young workers retirees and moms re-entering the workforce. Many colleges and universities have seen declines in on-campus recruiting by 50 percent. Employers have cut 2 million jobs since January. In nearly all fields employers expect to hire 22 percent fewer college graduates than last year—a fate is worse in the Northeast at 39 percent and in finance at 71 percent.
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Edison State College announces career stimulus program
Naples Daily News
“Staffing needs at NCH continue to be centered on the rehabilitative services division including physical therapy as well as Registered Nurses in our specialty areas” Settle said. “NCH hopes these types of programs can assist not only our workers but the community at large. ”The college’s program was also developed in cooperation with the non-profit Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board which operates several employment centers with funding from state and federal government among them the one-stop Career and Service Centers in Immokalee Naples and Fort Myers. Charlotte County campus president Patricia Land said students interested in the program may be eligible for financial assistance monies among them funds doled out through the federal economic stimulus plan. “The stimulus funding is not coming directly to Edison State” Land said. “It is part of an $8 million fund going to the Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board. ”Job re-training programs are also available at other area schools such as the Lee County School District’s High Tech centers which a state survey found have one of the highest job placement rates of post-secondary schools in the state.
College seniors cringe at poor job market
Seattle Post Intelligencer
“I mean I’m finding some. But you have to be a detective. He only recently started looking for employment and has started thinking of his search as a full-time job itself he said. Scattered among the crowd were some freshmen and sophomores trying to get a head start. Sarah Pappas a sophomore pre-business major said she attended the career fair to look for an internship or part-time job — resume-builders that could help her find work by the time she graduates. “I feel like it’s going to be hard for me to find a job” she said. “I’ve e-mailed everybody on Craigslist and nobody’s e-mailed me back.