Study: State manufacturers provide less job training than others in region (Crain's Detroit Business) More Michigan manufacturing plants provide less than 21 hours of formal job training for workers per year than plants in other Great Lakes states. |
World Bank scheme: Jobs for 36,000 in MP (rediff.com) As many as 36,000 rural youth have been issued job offer letters during the past eight months by various companies, from manufacturing to service, courtesy a World Bank sponsored scheme District Poverty Initiative Project. Since the placement agencies do not offer services in the non-skilled labour segment, companies hire non-skilled workers through references and relatives of the existing ... |
Job Fair in Brandon (WCAX-TV Vermont) Two major employers in Brandon closed their doors this summer-- leaving workers to cope with a job search in a weak environment. |
New county dog warden settles into her job (Star Beacon) Tabitha Hazeltine, newly hired dog warden for Ashtabula County, is getting used to driving hundreds of miles a day for her job. |
BSH training center dedicated at Craven Community College (New Bern Sun Journal) The summer before Scott Ralls' senior year of college, he worked a monotonous assembly line job at a manufacturing plant in Mt. Airy. About a year later, Ralls visited Yokohama, Japan, and toured an automobile plant where he saw people moving around, letting machines do the work. |
The case for manufacturing (BizJournals) The difficult environment for manufacturing is pushing Lincoln County’s Blum Inc. to broaden its recruiting efforts — to a job prospect’s whole family. |
Roanoke, New River valleys climb in jobless - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times) Manufacturing job losses gave the NRV the state's second-highest unemployment rate in July. The New River Valley had the state's second-highest unemployment rate in July among metropolitan areas, according to data released Wednesday by the Virginia Employment Commission. The reason: losses of manufacturing jobs. |
KMM plans job fair in Regent (The Bismarck Tribune) The ink is barely dry on an agreement between Regent and Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing to expand into Regent and potential employees are needed. |
Job search begins (Palladium-Item) Former MasterBrand Cabinets Inc. employee Paula Johnson saw several co-workers Tuesday at the WorkOne office, including some who had trouble negotiating the employment service's computers. |
Job fair attracts area residents looking for better wages, hours (The Joplin Globe) Kenneth Hill is looking for a better way to make a living. “I’m working, but I’m looking for a better job,” said Hill, 50, as he took a break from browsing for new jobs at a career fair Tuesday at Northpark Mall. “I’m trying to stay up and to better myself.” |