The News Review:
- Lawrence career fair to help out-of-work residents
- Tackling offbeat employment for off-season Argos
- Government of Canada Supports Youth Career Fair in Richmond
- Up to her teeth in bureaucracy
- Job hunters depressed discouraged
- Mid-career workers among thousands in Tulare County who struggle …
Lawrence career fair to help out-of-work residents
Lawrence Journal World
Also: Johnson County Community College Lawrence Journal-World Lawrence Memorial Hospital Lawrence Workforce Center Massage Envy Maximus Fitness and Wellness and Midland Care Connection. Also: New York Life Prescription Solutions Sedona Staffing Staff Management Sunflower Broadband Trinity In-Home Care and ZLB Plasma. More than two dozen employers will participate in a career fair as part of a larger event designed to help out-of-work Lawrencians succeed in applying dressing and interviewing for employment. Community Career Connection is set for 1 p.
Tackling offbeat employment for off-season Argos
Toronto Star
But Fontaine was the only who exchanged his jersey for a fire-retardant suit and steel-toed boots rated for 100-degree temperatures. The high salaries paid to oil workers ? roughnecks are paid about $25 an hour ? were certainly part of the lure for Fontaine. But the main attraction was his hope that this winter in the wilds of northern Alberta might lead to a post-football career in the oil business. "This was much more hands-on than what my degree (agricultural economics) prepared me for but it gave me a great insight into the business" he says. He woke up every morning at 4:45 and toiled 12 to 15 hours a day for Nabors Industries hauling 180-kilogram pipes and servicing oil wells outside the town of Fox Creek Alta. "It was very physically demanding and when you’re working that long you have to have your head in it too" says Fontaine who worked 21 days straight before getting seven off.
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Government of Canada Supports Youth Career Fair in Richmond
Market Wire (press release)
ca or visit your local Service Canada Centre. BACKGRUNDERSince 1974 the Richmond Youth Service Agency has provided programs and services that respond to the diverse needs of children and youth in the Richmond area. Programs offered include a career and employment resource centre for youth counseling volunteer and leadership opportunities and health and recreation services. Between April 6 2009 and July 17 2009 the organization will deliver a Youth Awareness project that includes developing staging and evaluating the U-Connect career fair for youth in the Richmond area. This career fair will assist youth in finding employment and help employers meet their current and future human resources needs. The federal Youth Awareness program funded under Employment Insurance Part II targets projects that respond to specific labour market requirements and adjustments over time and aims to promote youth as the workforce of the future among recipients employers communities and young Canadians. This news release is available in alternative formats upon request.
Up to her teeth in bureaucracy
ttawa Citizen
Norm Sterling Conservative MP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills promises to contact John Milloy ntario Minister of Training Colleges and Universities to see if he’ll reverse the ministry’s decision. Sterling says he is not surprised that his constituent is being treated in such a manner. As chairman of the public accounts committee he and his colleagues have received “good hard information” from Auditor General Jim McCarter on how Second Career and other employment programs run by the ministry are mired in problems. “They’re not very well organized.
Job hunters depressed discouraged
Cherry Hill Courier Post
The loss of manufacturing hasn’t helped Seneca said. Those jobs have declined 35 percent in the past decade more than any other sector he said. In 1999 421900 manufacturing jobs accounted for 10. 7 percent of all employment in the state. This March he said there were 273200 jobs representing just under 7 percent of all employment. Camden County lost 1802 manufacturing jobs about a 10 percent decline he said. (2 of 3)Manufacturing formed the base of Camden’s industry before World War II.
Mid-career workers among thousands in Tulare County who struggle …
Visalia Times-Delta
(2 of 3)”[lder workers] often have no understanding of what they want to do now or how to begin” Peck said. He applied for unemployment insurance. Weekly payments range from $40 to $450 depending on employees’ pre-existing salaries and are for those who’ve lost their job or seen their hours or pay cut by at least 10 percent. Later Acosta and his wife who works full time contacted their mortgage lender and began the process of refinancing their home loan. Employment counselors advise contacting credit card auto and home lenders immediately after a job loss to discuss payment-reduction options.