A report from NorthJersey.com: Councilman Jim Martocci is one of several hundred people benefitting from the local support group Neighbors-helping-Neighbors (NhN), which helps its unemployed members connect with fellow job seekers as a way to reenter the job market. Out of work since last July, Martocci is a lead facilitator of the NhN program at [...]
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A report from Atlanta Journal Constitution: Print E-mail By Tammy Joyner The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Clayton County school board has decided to postpone any decision on budget cuts after learning this week that some teachers in the district’s Career Technical and Agricultural Education program are not getting their contracts renewed for next year. After learning [...]
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A report from New York Times: Confronting the worst job market in decades, many college graduates who expected to land paid jobs are turning to unpaid internships to try to get a foot in an employer’s door. Marcus Yam for The New York Times Eric Glatt, 40, sued Fox Searchlight Pictures for minimum wage violations [...]
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A report from The Times of Trenton – NJ.com: Michael Mancuso/The TimesVincent Harney, bottom right, of Trenton, New Jersey, checks a cooling unit at Princeton Air Conditioning Inc., in Princeton Windsor Industrial Park, 39 Everett Drive, Building D. Harney and Kendall Williams, third from right, of Hamilton, are on six-month paid internships at Princeton Air [...]
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A report from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: By John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel April 24, 2012 10:17 p.m. Reggie Newson The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development on Tuesday rolled out a new law meant to address a chronic inability to fill manufacturing jobs in the state because of a lack of qualified or willing candidates. [...]
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A report from Daily Caller: The United States Agency for International Development has suspended a program it was using to train foreign workers in the Philippines for jobs in English-speaking call centers. USAID ended the Philippines-based program following New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones’ letter to the agency [...]
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A report from TheReporter.com: SolarTech, an initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, has partnered with NOVA, a job training organization, on a pioneering program that trains people for highly sought after “green jobs” in the region’s fast-growing solar and energy efficiency industries. Called the SolarTech Workforce Innovations Collaborative, or SWIC, the program goes a [...]
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A report from Washington Post: Those who do it three times a week for a month are then offered job training, education — and whatever else it takes “to get my life back,” says Albert Davis, 20, a native of Alabama who lives in a Manhattan shelter. “People tell me I have a beautiful voice, [...]
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A report from Youngstown Vindicator: Published: Fri, March 30, 2012 @ 12:06 a.m. By Karl Henkel khenkel@vindy.com WARREN The growing shale industry has spurred a new job-training program for Mahoning Valley residents. Eastern Gateway Community College and the city of Warren on Thursday announced a partnership to offer free recruitment and training for jobs in [...]
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A report from Rockford Register Star: ROCKFORD — A rebound in the region’s commercial construction industry will do more than benefit the hundreds of union workers who have been waiting for a job — it will create some room in the pipeline for those who are trying to get their first break in the industry. [...]
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