tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32411663929203917752024-02-19T00:08:43.150-05:00The Burgh WorksA blog to inform Pittsburgh area jobseekers and recruiters about Pittsburgh job news, advice and happenings around the 'burgh concerning the job market especially pertaining to the hourly, blue collar, entry level to mid level skilled positions. We speak with hundreds of Human Resource people, business owners and department heads every week giving us a firm finger on the pulse of the Pittsburgh Job Market.EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-78037323331192977652013-01-29T18:40:00.001-05:002013-01-29T18:40:10.417-05:00Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union #354 Apprenticeship Applications Available<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The J.A.T.C. of Local Union #354
announces the final opportunity to apply for<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">an opening in the Apprenticeship
Class, starting June 1, 2013. The final dates<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">are February 18t</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt;">h, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">25th, 26th and 2ih
from 8:30am - 11 :30am at the Training<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Youngwood JATC - 263
Armbrust Road, Youngwood, PA 15697.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">You must live in the following
Counties: Westmoreland, Fayette,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">portions of Washington and Greene
counties,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ebensburg JATC -172
Municipal Road, Ebensburg, PA 15931.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">You must live in the following
Counties: Bedford, Blair, Cambria,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Huntingdon, Indiana and Somerset, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">DuBois JATC - 3572
Watson Highway, DuBois, PA 15801.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">You must live in the following
Counties: Cameron, Clearfield, Elk and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Jefferson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Applications will not be considered
complete and accepted unless the following<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">documents are attached.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• A high school transcript of grades
(not diploma) or GEO test results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• Two (2) letters of recommendation
from former employers, school officials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">or non-related persons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• Photo copy of the military
discharge, form 00-214, if a veteran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• Must provide a valid Pennsylvania
driver's license.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• Must be at least 18 years of age at
time of filing application.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• Must be physically capable of
performing work of outside construction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">plumbing-pipefitting trade, work at
various heights, and extreme weather<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• Must be willing to work for various
contractors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">• Must attend related instruction
classes a minimum of two evenings per<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">week for a minimum of five years and
be available for employment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">• If you have any questions, please call 724-925-8108.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-86607910325635936242013-01-29T06:37:00.002-05:002013-01-29T06:37:52.885-05:00Pittsburgh Region Adds Jobs In December<div class="story_byline">
<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201301/20120129jobless_chart229.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201301/20120129jobless_chart_thumb.png" width="220" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Bill Toland / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</span> </div>
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While the raw news may not be good -- the unemployment rate in the seven-county Pittsburgh region rose to 7.3 percent in December -- the region hit a positive benchmark of sorts last month:<br />
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Five years and counting with an unemployment rate lower than both the state and the national jobless number.<br />
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, issued Monday by the state Department of Labor and Industry, increased for the first time since September.<br />
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In October and November, the regional rate dropped from 7.4 percent to 7.2 percent. For the year, January through December, the region's unemployment rate crept from 7.0 to 7.3 percent.<br />
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Pennsylvania's seasonally adjusted rate in December 2012 rose one-tenth of one percentage point to 7.9 percent, and the national rate was unchanged at 7.8 percent.<br />
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In the region, Butler County remains the county with the lowest rate, at 6.8 percent, while Fayette County remains the highest, at 9.7. The city's rate -- which is not seasonally adjusted -- was estimated at 7.1 percent.<br />
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Even as the region's rate inched up, the Pittsburgh metropolitan statistical area added an estimated 800 jobs, to a record of nearly 1.17 million. Year-over-year, according to the Department of Labor and Industry, the non-farm total grew by 7,200 jobs.<br />
That means that the region's increasing unemployment rate is not the result of fewer jobs, but a larger labor force.</div>
EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-47092525972461306282013-01-22T19:22:00.000-05:002013-01-22T19:33:42.977-05:00Troops to Tractors connects military veterans to farm careers<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Greensburg, PA—January 15, 2013 The Westmoreland
Conservation District announces the launch </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">of Troops to Tractors. They are seeking military
veterans who wish to transition to a second career in </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">agriculture.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgSL45XsXfDsgGAiPCbs_T3uJfXUF8_udOvVwWjn0PdZos5XHd6XRFhkddFbsTe2pNCZQhOS-5sKaguXg7ZNVIsl-3ze_beQx9diNjhXZo8tXUgUIbo57q7hiFZ5LTTVe5i_h27vkk29J0/s1600/tractor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgSL45XsXfDsgGAiPCbs_T3uJfXUF8_udOvVwWjn0PdZos5XHd6XRFhkddFbsTe2pNCZQhOS-5sKaguXg7ZNVIsl-3ze_beQx9diNjhXZo8tXUgUIbo57q7hiFZ5LTTVe5i_h27vkk29J0/s320/tractor.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Westmoreland Conservation District’s Troops to
Tractors seeks honorably discharged veterans to </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">connect them with successful farms and
agribusinesses in southwestern PA. Veterans seeking on-the-</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">farm employment, apprenticeships, or internships
can get connected to resources to locate farms </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">or agricultural operations that welcome the skills
and dedication that veterans bring to the work </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Did you grow up on a farm and long to return to the
rural way of life? Or, are you seeking a second </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">career where you can use your skills and working
outside in a fulfilling and challenging environment?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If so, this program is for you. Troops to Tractors
is accepting inquiries from veterans with or without </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">farming experience who have a genuine interest in
the original “green job.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you are a 20% or more disabled veteran or have
GI Bill benefits, you may be able to access stipend </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">programs in connection with your transition into
farming. For those already on the road to farm </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ownership, Troops to Tractors staff can point you
in the right direction for educational and financial </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">resources.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Said Jim Wolfe of the PA Department of Education,
Division of Veterans & Military Education, about Troops to </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tractors, “If a veteran called last week and told
me he wanted to be a farmer, I would have been at a loss as to </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">how to help…now I know where to send
him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Westmoreland County, PA, 45 minutes east of
Pittsburgh, is home to many acres of breathtaking </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">farmland. If owning and working an agricultural
operation is in your future once you leave active duty, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the Troops to Tractors program can also connect you
to resources connecting farmers seeking buyers so </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">that farmland can stay productive.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please contact Mimi at
724-837-5271, ext. 211 or via email at mimi@wcdpa.com</span></div>
EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-20440921880602078872013-01-19T13:29:00.005-05:002013-01-19T13:29:54.550-05:00Unemployment in Pennsylvania rises<div class="story_byline">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Ann Belser / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania rose above the national rate in December, according to figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pennsylvania's unemployment rate was 7.9 percent, slightly above the state's November unemployment rate of 7.8 percent and the national unemployment rate of 7.8 percent for December.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unemployment rate in the state is higher than it was in December 2011, when the seasonally adjusted rate was 7.7 percent and unemployment was waning from its post-recessionary high of 8.7 percent. The state unemployment rate ultimately fell to 7.4 percent in March and April 2011, but has risen since then and has been hovering around 8 percent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In April 2007, well before the Great Recession started in December of that year, unemployment in Pennsylvania was 4.2 percent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unemployment rate did not hit 5 percent until April 2008.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comparing December 2007, when the Great Recession began, to December 2012, three and a half years after the official end of the recession, shows that while the state's civilian labor force grew by 179,000, the number of people who were working was still down by 46,000.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In December, the state also lost nonfarm jobs. A blunt count of jobs, without the smoothing of spikes that is done with seasonal adjustment, found that employers cut 24,800 jobs from November to December. Seasonal adjustment of those numbers, however, provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry Friday, brought it down to 4,800 jobs lost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goods-producing industries added jobs overall with 700 new jobs in mining and logging and 4,400 construction jobs. Mining and logging jobs were up by 3,300 from December 2011, but construction was down from the previous year by 7,700 jobs. Manufacturing, which was up by 5,500 over December 2011, lost 1,100 jobs from November to December 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the service-providing sector, the state lost 8,800 jobs during the month, but was up by 37,600 jobs from the same time in 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trade transportation and utilities lost 5,500 jobs from November to December; leisure and hospitality cut 5,100 jobs from month to month; and financial activities lost 1,800 jobs during that time. Those three sectors all increased jobs in a year-over-year comparison by 9,100, 15,000 and 3,800, respectively.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Education and health services, however, which added 3,700 jobs in December from November, was down by 1,800 jobs compared to December 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government added 1,500 jobs during the month, but was down by 200 jobs in a year-over-year comparison.</span></div>
EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-50808521183369626432013-01-04T06:43:00.001-05:002013-01-04T06:43:27.549-05:00Slight drop in Pittsburgh region's jobless rate <div class="story_byline">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Ann Belser / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unemployment in the seven-county Pittsburgh region declined one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.2 percent in November, the state Department of Labor and Industry announced Thursday.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The area covered by the report -- Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties -- had a combined seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate that was lower than the state's rate of 7.8 percent or the national rate of 7.7 percent in November.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unemployment rate, which is based on a survey of households, showed the regional labor force grew by 1,000, with 2,900 more people reporting they had jobs in November than in October even as 2,000 fewer reported being unemployed. Those numbers should add up, but were slightly askew due to rounding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A second survey, which polls employers, showed the region gained a total of 4,500 jobs, including 1,000 in the government sector that had seen big losses in previous months. The numbers are not seasonally adjusted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the public sector, the federal government cut 200 jobs during the month while the state government added 500, bringing that sector even with its employment levels of November 2011.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PG graphic: Regional jobless rate 7.2%<br /><em>(Click image for larger version)</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local municipalities cut 100 jobs in November, but the public schools added 800 jobs in November. Since last year, there are 2,300 fewer positions in local municipalities with 800 fewer jobs in the public schools.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Retail trade added 4,700 jobs in November as part of the seasonal employment boost caused by the run up to the holidays. That was 700 more jobs than the same time last year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Financial services also added jobs, 1,000 over the month and 4,000 since November 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Education and health services added 1,600 during November but the sector was down 800 jobs from November 2011. The loss can be explained in part by cuts to social service agencies, which eliminated 100 jobs during November and a total of 1,200 jobs since November 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, colleges and universities have cut 900 jobs since last November, though they did add 300 jobs during November 2012. Hospitals added 100 jobs during the month and 400 over the prior 12 months. Physicians offices also added 100 jobs in November and 500 from a year ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the service sector added 5,100 jobs, goods producers were cutting back. Construction companies cut 400 jobs in November and are down by 2,200 from last year. Manufacturing cut 300 jobs, with 400 jobs lost in durable goods but 100 jobs added in non-durable goods in November. Overall the manufacturing sector is up by 900 jobs from last year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leisure and hospitality employers cut 3,700 jobs during the month, with 1,300 jobs lost at bars and restaurants. Overall the sector is still up from the same month last year with 3,300 more jobs.</span></div>
EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-63192667113726198862012-08-03T13:19:00.004-04:002012-08-03T13:20:17.751-04:00July jobs data show some improvement in hiring<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">By </span><a href="mailto:grobb@marketwatch.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Greg Robb</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, MarketWatch</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The nation’s labor market showed some signs of improvement in July as job growth came in above market expectations, U.S. government data showed on Friday. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Employment outside the farm sector grew by 163,000 workers in the month, the Labor Department said. This is the fastest pace of job growth since February. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wall Street had expected a fairly moderate 100,000 increase in nonfarm payrolls for the month, according to a MarketWatch survey. </span><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/economy-politics/calendars/economic?siteId="><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> See MarketWatch’s comprehensive economic calendar. </span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wall Street greeted warmly the size of the monthly increase, with U.S. stock futures <span class="quotePeekContainer"><span class="quotepeekbase bgQuote up" id="quote2107020325"><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/DJU2?link=MW_story_quote"><span class="bgChannel">/quotes/zigman/8750836</span><span class="symbol">DJU2</span><span class="data bgPercentChange symbol">+1.78%</span></a></span></span> rising after the report was released. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gain in July was concentrated in the service sector. Factory employment also increased. </span><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Read full government report. </span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government employment slipped. Private-sector payrolls rose by 172,000 in the month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Pittsburgh region reached near-record employment in June, but its unemployment rate increased to 7.1 percent anyway, the state said in a report issued Tuesday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the same time, employers in the region added 12,600 jobs in June, and 15,400 since June 2011. That brought the Pittsburgh region’s job count to 1,160,800, the highest level since February 2001, when it was a record 1,163,300, said the agency, citing a survey of employers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Employment went up, but the labor force went up even faster,” said Matthew Marlin, an economics professor at Duquesne University. The labor force, composed of those working or looking for work, jumped by 9,000 since May, and by 24,200 since June 2011.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The report tells me more people are optimistic and went out to look for a job,” Marlin said. “A number of discouraged workers apparently became encouraged workers.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The region had 89,200 unemployed residents last month, which was 4,600 more than in May. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: x-small;">Mike Mikus, </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Director, Consumer Energy Alliance Mid-Atlantic</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">As the driver of the Keystone State natural gas boom, the energy
industry has continuously pumped life into the Pittsburgh region’s economy and
job market. With the recent announcement that </span><a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/05/22/new-skyscraper-could-be-built-in-downtown-pittsburgh/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Cambria;">Oxford
Development plans to build a multi-million dollar high-rise downtown</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria;">, the
Marcellus Shale industry once again promises to be a valuable and vital
contributor to the city’s revitalization efforts.<span style="color: red;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Developers are eager to build projects, such as this “350
fifth” tower – located on the block between Fifth and Forbes Avenue – as the
availability of desirable office space in downtown Pittsburgh continues to wane.
Securing a long-term lease with a large company – particularly with a key
player in the Marcellus Shale industry – is a major key to the development’s
success, and big name energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, are rumored
to be targets. Landing a big anchor to occupy a sizable chunk of the space
would allow the project to move forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">By rejuvenating the vast, yet mostly vacant building that
will be “350 fifth” – the proposed $238 million skyscraper – with much-needed
and valuable retail space, the project will prove to be a positive for both
Pittsburgh residents and the overall downtown area, alike. According to Oxford
Development, the </span><a href="http://triblive.com/news/1859003-74/oxford-space-building-downtown-street-construction-guy-rise-smithfield-square"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Cambria;">project
is expected to create hundreds of jobs</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria;">, including 450 construction jobs and
2,500 permanent jobs, if the plan is approved as is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">However, as city officials are looking to encourage a
renaissance of development downtown – beginning with the proposed new high-rise
– the drilling ban that’s currently in place threatens to scare off such
sought-after tenants. Along with local industries, Pittsburgh mayor Luke
Ravenstahl has expressed </span><a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/05/25/is-pittsburghs-drilling-ban-hurting-business/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Cambria;">concerns
over the negative effect the drilling ban</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> has on the desire to relocate within
city limits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">With so much at stake for the city, policymakers should
reconsider the ban on drilling that could cost our city sizeable investments,
hundreds of jobs and significant economic development opportunities and growth.
Pittsburgh cannot afford to lose out on the impact this development will have
on the local economy, job market and widespread revitalization efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-78554434925923560912012-07-27T10:21:00.000-04:002012-07-27T10:21:29.345-04:00Business-led program for students with disabilities cited for high job-placement rate<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/24px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
PITTSBURGH, July 27, 2012 – The UPMC Mercy Project SEARCH program, which helps high school students with disabilities become valued employees in meaningful competitive jobs, received an Employment Outcome Award for its class of 2010-11 at the 6<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>International Project SEARCH Conference held in Austin, Texas, July 24-27. Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania implements the program which was cited for achieving a job-placement rate of more than 60 percent. It was one of more than 70 Project SEARCH programs across the country that received Employment Outcome Awards.</div>
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The Project SEARCH High School Transition Program is a unique, business- led, one year school-to-work program for students with disabilities, grade 12 or higher, who have completed their high school academic requirements, but have deferred taking a diploma that takes place entirely at the workplace. Hosted at UPMC Mercy and UPMC Passavant Hospitals, the program has helped over 30 Allegheny County students obtain employment.</div>
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“Project SEARCH changes lives and Goodwill is proud to be an integral part of this outstanding program. We congratulate the Project SEARCH staff, teams, and students of UPMC Mercy Project SEARCH on this award,” said Holly Opatick, Director of Transition Services at Goodwill. The cornerstone of the program is total immersion in the organization, with students reporting to the host business, learning employability skills and marketable job skills, while participating in three job-training rotations during the school year.</div>
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“In addition, Project SEARCH brings about positive cultural change within the work site organization by overcoming stereotypes and helping employees to see students with disabilities as unique individuals who can make real contributions to the organization and the greater community.”</div>
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Since its inception in 1996, Project SEARCH has grown from one original program site at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to over 200 across the United States and Canada, England, Scotland, and Australia. Project SEARCH's primary objective is to secure competitive employment for people with disabilities.</div>
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UPMC Project SEARCH Partners: UPMC, the County of Allegheny Department of Human Services Office of Intellectual Disability (OID), Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR).</div>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-39842728984229417492012-06-26T09:09:00.001-04:002012-06-26T09:10:01.813-04:00Pittsburgh region's jobless rate holds steady<div class="story_byline">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In May a year ago, the jobless rate in the Pittsburgh region was 7.3 percent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After smoothing out seasonal spikes in hiring, the labor department reported nonfarm jobs in the region fell by 2,500 last month, the second straight monthly decline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unadjusted figures showed employers in the region added 7,800 jobs in May as the goods-producing sector gained 1,500 positions and the service sector added 6,300.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among goods-producing industries, construction added 1,800 jobs, the smallest May increase since 2006. Compared to May 2011, construction jobs were off by 4,100.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manufacturing jobs fell by 400 in May following three months of gains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the service sector, which showed the weakest bump up in May since 2005, professional and business services posted a strong gain of 1,600 jobs while education and health services lost 5,000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leisure and hospitality added 6,100 jobs and local government gained 1,200. But federal and state government trimmed 1,100 jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the seven counties in the region, Butler had the lowest jobless rate in May at 6.1 percent and Fayette had the highest at 8.6 percent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Across Pennsylvania, unemployment rates ranged from 5.5 percent in Centre County to 10.5 percent in Cameron County.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-29162545893817435792012-06-14T12:32:00.002-04:002012-06-14T12:32:07.840-04:00U.S. Chamber of Commerce touts Pittsburgh's job creation<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Tracie Mauriello / Post-Gazette Washington Bureau</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">WASHINGTON -- Pennsylvania doesn't appear anywhere on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's top 10 lists of exporters, job creators or producers of college graduates, but travel to the southwest corner and you'll find a center of innovation so strong that it's the national business group's best role model for job creation.</span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtfSK-Y5ethbYUSp2WQJCRoNqg7p88zTX1EYtSyKAmL7bM3EFJNg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="225" data-width="225" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtfSK-Y5ethbYUSp2WQJCRoNqg7p88zTX1EYtSyKAmL7bM3EFJNg" style="height: 225px; width: 225px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Chamber released its findings Wednesday in two reports issued at the conservative business group's annual Jobs Summit. One of the reports highlights Pittsburgh and Denver, cities that over the past two years had more job growth than the country's other metropolitan areas with populations of more than 1 million.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pittsburgh showed 3.9 percent job growth and Denver showed 3.8 percent, while the average for the other 49 largest metropolitan areas is 2.8 percent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Denver hosted the 2008 Democratic National Convention; Pittsburgh, the 2009 G-20 world economic summit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You simply cannot put a dollar figure on the kind of marketing that occurred. ... Everybody knows about Denver now," Mayor Michael Hancock said during a panel discussion Wednesday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Likewise, the G-20 helped raise Pittsburgh's profile as a convention destination and as an innovative city that transformed itself after the decline of the steel industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It enabled us to show off our city, to show off some of the things we have, and we did ... gain some business growth from that," Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said. It was worth the disruptions caused by road closures and security measures surrounding the summit, he said.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read more: </span><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/us-chamber-touts-pittsburghs-job-creation-640310"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/us-chamber-touts-pittsburghs-job-creation-640310</span></a>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-8971255860032805462012-06-01T06:45:00.000-04:002012-06-01T06:45:18.523-04:00Manpower Group: 10 toughest jobs to fill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hardest jobs to fill globally are skilled trades workers, engineers and sales representatives, according to Manpower Group’s survey of nearly 40,000 employers across 41 countries and territories. Skilled trades and engineers have become harder to find since last year, as demand outstrips supply. Sales representatives’ continued presence in the top 10 is a result of companies continuing to seek out experienced sales people who can help drive revenue growth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talent supply and demand issues are generally more acute in the Asia Pacific and the Americas region than in EMEA. Globally, employers having the most difficulty finding the right people to fill jobs are located in Japan (81%), Brazil (71%), Bulgaria (51%), Australia (50%), USA (49%), India (48%), New Zealand (48%), Taiwan (47%), Panama (47%), Romania (45%), Argentina (45%), Mexico (43%) and Germany (42%). Talent shortages are least problematic in Ireland and the Netherlands. The percentage of employers reporting difficulties has remained relatively consistent over time, however India has displayed volatility where the proportion dropped 19 percentage points since last year, but jumped 51 percentage points the year before that. The number of employers struggling to fill roles in France has jumped 9 percentage points whereas it has dropped 15 percentage points in Italy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regionally, employers in the Americas are having more trouble filling jobs than the global average, with 41% of employers reporting difficulty filling positions due to lack of available talent. This figure represents the highest proportion of employers reporting difficulty since the start of the global economic downturn in 2008, and a 4% increase over last year’s survey. Despite this, employers are less concerned about the impact talent shortages have on key stakeholders with more than half (58%) believing the talent shortage will have little or no impact, up from 38% in 2011.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the first time in the survey’s seven year history, employers in the Americas report engineering roles as the most difficult to fill across the region, up from fourth last year. While the role does not top the list in any individual country, it ranks second in Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica and the United States. Employers in Brazil (71%), the USA (49%) and Panama (47%) are having the most difficulty finding staff. Year-over-year, employers report greater difficulty filling vacancies in seven of the 10 countries. The most common strategy implemented by employers in the Americas to address talent shortages is additional training and development for existing staff, up from 32% in 2011 to 37% this year, and considerably more than the global average of 25%.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">View the whole report <strong><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-employability-crisis-persists-one-in-three-employers-worldwide-cannot-find-qualified-talent-reveals-manpowergroup-annual-survey-155276265.html">here</a></strong>.</span>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-83950134014201269582012-05-30T13:19:00.002-04:002012-05-30T13:19:50.602-04:00Pittsburgh MSA Unemployment Rate Steady At 6.8%<div align="LEFT">
<b><span style="font-size: small;">HARRISBURG (MAY 30) </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">– </span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;">In April, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the seven-county </span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) remained at 6.8 percent. </span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Pittsburgh’s rate was still below both Pennsylvania’s rate (7.4%), and the United States’ rate (8.1%), which were each down one-tenth of a percentage point in April. Over the year, the Pittsburgh MSA’s unemployment rate was down half of a percentage point, the same as Pennsylvania’s movement from last April, while the national rate was down nine-tenths. Among the commonwealth’s 14 MSAs, the Pittsburgh MSA tied for the fifth lowest unemployment rate in April. Within the Pittsburgh MSA, Butler County (6.1%) had the lowest rate while Fayette County (8.5%) had the highest rate. Among Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, unemployment rates ranged from 5.3 percent in Montour County to 11.7 percent in Cameron County. </span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Seasonally adjusted</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;">Total nonfarm jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA were down 1,300 in April. </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The April decline followed two months of increases. Pennsylvania’s nonfarm job count also dropped in April, down 600 to 5,727,700. Jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA were up 16,400 (1.4%) from April 2011, twice the Pennsylvania growth rate of 0.7% over the year. </span></span><br />
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In April, Pittsburgh MSA goods-producing jobs rose by 2,600 to 144,100. </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The majority of the increase was due to construction, up 2,400 as spring hiring began. Over the year, local goods producing jobs were down 1,700 with the vast majority of the decline attributable to construction. Mining & logging was up 1,200 from last April, and has shown over-the-year increases of at least 1,000 since April 2010. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Pittsburgh MSA service providers added 8,200 jobs in April. </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The largest increase was a typical spring leisure & hospitality gain, up 4,600 jobs. Education & health services showed a decline of 500 due to a record April drop in health care & social assistance that was driven by social assistance. Professional & business services added 2,200 jobs, aided in part by an increase of 1,000 in administrative & waste services, which includes landscapers. Over the year, education & health services (+8,700) and professional & business services (+3,200) recorded the greatest job growth, while government (-3,400) experienced the largest employment decline. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don Despines turned to railroading a decade ago after earning a college accounting degree and working several sales jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I didn't feel comfortable raising a child on commission," said Despines, 34, who lives in Economy, five miles from one of the region's largest railyards in Conway. He said steady pay and attractive retirement benefits lured him to the career.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nation's seven major railroads hope such selling points will help them hire a combined 15,000 people this year, almost a quarter of them military veterans and many from other professions, according to the Washington-based Association of American Railroads that represents the major freight haulers and Amtrak. Smaller, short-line and regional railroads intend to hire thousands more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If they add any jobs in Conway, it would be a blessing. If they add 500, I might tap dance on Route 65," said Donna Fath, a bartender at a VFW that sits across the highway from Norfolk Southern's sprawling Conway Terminal in Beaver County, once the nation's largest rail yard. It employs about 1,400.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Norfolk Southern intends to hire 2,800 people this year. It did not say how many would be based at Conway. On average, 60 to 80 trains a day pass through the giant yard that stretches four miles along the upper side of the Ohio River. It is also unknown how many people will be hired locally at CSX, but the state's No. 2 hauler hired 4,000 people last year and plans to hire more than 3,000 this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Railroads plan to spend a record $13 billion of their money on system improvements, the railroad association said. A PennDOT report released in December 2010 said Pennsylvania's railroads planned at least $376.6 million of work in the following three years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We can't say (railroads) are poised to regain their previously dominant position, but their long period of decline appears to be over and they are holding their own," said Noel Perry, managing director and senior consultant at Freight Transportation Research Associates in Nashville, Ind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Railroad employment is on pace to rise for the second year in a row. It averaged about 232,000 through this year's first three months and 229,000 employees for all of 2011, up from 216,525 in 2010, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be just the 12th time since 1947 that average annual railroad employment increased, and just the fourth time that railroads posted two or more years in a row of increased employment. Railroads endured a 22-year skid between 1952 and 1973 in which employment dropped every year, and an 18-year slide between 1980 and 1997.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perry said rail freight haulers have improved service and profit margins over the past decade, allowing them to put more money toward infrastructure improvements and training of new employees. "As the economy grows, most railroads will be able to grow along with it," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The booming Marcellus shale natural gas industry has created an emerging rail market in Pennsylvania, which has more railroads -- 55 -- than any other state, said Joe Gerdes, executive of the Harrisburg-based Keystone State Association of Railroads.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's been a godsend here, particularly to short-line railroads," Gerdes said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gerdes said Wellsboro & Corning Railroad -- which operates a 35-mile line between Tioga County in northcentral Pennsylvania and Steuben County in New York -- hauled about 300 carloads of scrap metal a year before the Marcellus industry arrived. Now it's moving thousands of carloads of sand and water from drilling sites, Gerdes said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wellsboro & Corning received a $700,000 state grant this year for line improvements. It was among $23.2 million in state grants doled out for rail projects, including $7.4 million in Western Pennsylvania. It was the lowest total since the state awarded $14.3 million in grants in 2007, PennDOT said. Major railroads aren't eligible for federal funding for capital projects, Association of American Railroads spokeswoman Holly Arthur said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, the railroad association said, major railroads hauled 8.1 million carloads of freight in the first 16 weeks of this year, down 0.7 percent from the same period a year ago and almost 7 percent below the same period in 2007 -- before the recession began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A mild winter and low natural gas prices dampened demand for coal, which fills more than two of every five rail freight cars. Grain shipments also tumbled. Increased shipments of petroleum products, automobiles, metal, lumber, and truck trailers and shipping containers -- also known as intermodal traffic -- helped offset the losses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shipping by barge increased 6.9 percent during the first three months of this year compared with the same period a year ago. Shipping by truck increased by 2.7 percent in March compared with March 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of the new hires at major railroads, about 3,000 are planned because of growth, while the remaining 12,000 are because of attrition, including a wave of retirements that is expected to continue and to open up tens of thousands of jobs in years to come, Arthur said. Train operations and maintenance jobs offer the most opportunities, she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bill Thompson of Imperial, a 37-year railroad worker, is retiring this week. A locomotive engineer turned full-time union rep, Thompson estimated that more than 60 percent of engineers -- including some with decades on the job -- "have no idea when they're coming or going" because they work on-call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You've got to be ready to work at a moment's notice seven days a week. If you want all your weekends off or evenings or days off, then railroading is not for you," he said. "This job has been very good for my family, but it's a tough lifestyle."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despines, the salesman who switched to a railroad career, started at Norfolk Southern as a conductor trainee and became a locomotive engineer in about two years. He mostly runs trains between Conway and Toledo, Ohio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You're away from home a lot and you're always on call. The security of the job and the pension we have is what keeps me there," Despines said. The Association of American Railroads says average wages and benefits total $107,000 at major railroads.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're a military veteran, the railroads want you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Railroads have long hired large numbers of military veterans. Arthur said their "dedication, leadership and strategic thinking" abilities make them well-suited for the job. Veterans make up about 20 percent of the work force at CSX and 14 percent of it at Norfolk Southern, spokespeople said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One sat in the bar at the Conway VFW late Thursday afternoon: Eddie Keller, 80, a Korean War veteran who worked at the Conway yard for 43 years. He built a home just up the hill from the rail yard, well within earshot of the clanging, ringing, rumbling and whistling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"People have asked if the noise ever bothers me. It never has. It's the sound of people working," Keller said, adding he'd gladly put up with more racket if it meant more jobs for the area.</span>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-25076022407417200302012-04-10T13:07:00.000-04:002012-04-10T13:07:01.654-04:00Over 61,000 People Were Helped By Goodwill During 2011<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/24px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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One of the area’s largest and most diverse human services agencies, Goodwill SWPA also reported that it recycled 26,157,148 pounds of donated goods during 2011, including 2,519,045 pounds of computers and E-waste items; 4,708,715 pounds of recyclables such as aluminum, plastic, glass and newspapers collected at the Goodwill-operated Fayette County Recycling Center; 18,685,004 pounds of retail recyclables such as books, shoes, toys and housewares; and 244,384 pounds of toner containers.</div>
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Total revenues for Goodwill SWPA in 2011 were $47,071,593 compared to $46,674,358 in 2010. Expenses for program services and supporting services for 2011 were $45,163,573, resulting in a consolidated change in net assets of $1,908,020, compared to 2010 expenses of $40,802,523 and a consolidated change in net assets of $5,871,835.</div>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-44075581249411837692012-03-12T09:59:00.005-04:002012-03-12T10:00:20.294-04:00February Job Report Shows Positive Trends<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font: 12px arial; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
The jobs outlook improved once again in February as both new employment and the overall labor force rose for the third straight month. Employers added over a quarter of a million private sector jobs, beating conservative <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-february-jobs-report-2012-3%20http://www.businessinsider.com/the-february-jobs-report-2012-3" style="color: #588d0b; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wall Street</a>estimates that called for a 210,000 increase.</div>
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Private-sector employment grew by 233,000 jobs, 227,000 of which consist of nonfarm payroll employment. Employment rose in professional and businesses services (+82,000) with temp services accounting for just over half that figure at 45,000. Health care and social assistance also posted gains (+61,000), as did leisure and hospitality (+44,000), and manufacturing industries (+31,000).</div>
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According to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/february-jobs-report-firs_b_1334439.html" style="color: #588d0b; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jared Bernstein</a>, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “This month's report makes another addition to a solid and improving trend in what has been the most important missing piece in the economic recovery so far: conditions in the job market.”<br />
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Another interesting point lies within the December and January job numbers, which were both recently revised. December’s final job tally rose from 203,000 additional jobs to 223,000, a 20,000 job difference. January’s results were even more drastic, going from 243,000 estimated jobs to 284,000. So overall, an additional 60,000 jobs that were not initially counted have now been added to the totals, making February’s increases that much more significant.</div>
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</div>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-54600239820955861212012-02-03T16:33:00.000-05:002012-02-03T16:33:13.693-05:00U.S. adds 243,000 jobs in January<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAooiZ11aXmL8gx2cqUMysnOwVQKZkBgY00cSmbKXEck1-xtOT8C95SpZjakn0NCyo-2wJcis2o558OaUQdSjNYOZYx3keiOoqOM0nz2AzXYq1otnDK7hf6oLMrhU03_5AnBlDbVeei8j/s1600/jan2012+jobs.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAooiZ11aXmL8gx2cqUMysnOwVQKZkBgY00cSmbKXEck1-xtOT8C95SpZjakn0NCyo-2wJcis2o558OaUQdSjNYOZYx3keiOoqOM0nz2AzXYq1otnDK7hf6oLMrhU03_5AnBlDbVeei8j/s320/jan2012+jobs.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread in the private sector, with large employment gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing. Government employment changed little over the month.</span><br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Private-sector employment grew by 257,000, with the largest employment gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing. Government employment was little changed over the month.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Professional and business services </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">continued to add jobs in January (+70,000). About half of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">increase occurred in employment services (+33,000). Job gains also occurred in accounting and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bookkeeping (+13,000) and in architectural and engineering services (+7,000).</span><br />
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<div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the month, employment in leisure and hospitality increased by 44,000, primarily in food services </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and drinking places (+33,000). Since a recent low in February 2010, food services has added 487,000 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">jobs.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In January, health care employment continued to grow (+31,000). Within the industry, hospitals and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ambulatory care services each added 13,000 jobs.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In January, employment in information declined by 13,000, including a loss of 8,000 jobs in the motion </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">picture and sound recording industry.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the goods-producing sector, manufacturing added 50,000 jobs. Nearly all of the increase occurred in durable goods manufacturing, with job growth in fabricated metal products (+11,000), machinery </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(+11,000), and motor vehicles and parts (+8,000). Durable goods manufacturing has added 418,000 jobs over the past 2 years.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Employment in construction increased by 21,000 in January, following a gain of 31,000 in the previous </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">month. Over the past 2 months, nonresidential specialty trade contractors added 30,000 jobs.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mining </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">added 10,000 jobs in January, with most of the gain in support activities for mining (+8,000). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since a recent low in October 2009, mining employment has expanded by 172,000.</span><br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged in January. The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">manufacturing workweek increased by 0.3 hour to 40.9 hours, and factory overtime increased by 0.1 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hour to 3.4 hours.</span></div>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-31873397603263522862012-02-01T08:11:00.000-05:002012-02-01T08:11:17.247-05:00Pittsburgh Unemployment Down to 6.9% in December<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HARRISBURG (JANUARY 31) – In December, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was down two-tenths of a percentage point to 6.9 percent. The local rate remained below Pennsylvania’s rate (7.6%), which fell three-tenths of a percentage point, and the United States’ rate (8.5%), which was down two-tenths of a percentage point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the year, the Pittsburgh MSA’s unemployment rate was down a full percentage point, while Pennsylvania’s rate and the national rate were both down nine-tenths of a percentage point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the commonwealth’s 14 MSAs, the Pittsburgh MSA was tied for the 5th lowest unemployment rate in December. Within the Pittsburgh MSA, Butler County (6.4%) had the lowest rate while Fayette County (8.6%) had the highest rate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA rose 5,200 in December to 1,156,300, the highest level since April 2001. December marked the tenth increase in 2011. Pennsylvania’s nonfarm job count increased by 6,500 in December to 5,699,100, the highest level since January 2009. Jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA were up 26,600 (2.4%) from December 2010, while Pennsylvania’s jobs rose 59,200 (1.0%) from last year’s level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pittsburgh MSA service-providing jobs rose 4,200 in December, establishing a new record level of 1,016,900 jobs. Trade, transportation, & utilities (+5,200) accounted for a majority of the service-providing jobs increase as local retailers continued to add seasonal employment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leisure & hospitality and education & health services supersectors incurred the largest over-the-month declines, down 900 jobs each. Both declines were expected as leisure & hospitality generally shows a sizable decline in December, and education & health services typically experiences a reduction in employment due to the ending of the fall school semester. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the year, education & health services (+10,400) and trade, transportation, & utilities (+7,700) have provided the greatest job growth, while government (-1,000) and information (-200) have experienced the largest employment declines.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="leadin"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy added 200,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate fell for the fourth month in a row, the government said Friday, in a fresh sign the economy is picking up and businesses are more willing to hire. </span></div><div class="leadin"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read more: <a href="http://bit.ly/yKpXgw">http://bit.ly/yKpXgw</a></span>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-39229900885582504622011-12-05T17:41:00.000-05:002011-12-05T17:41:26.529-05:00PITTSBURGH MSA UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN TO 7.0%<div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>HARRISBURG (DECEMBER 1) </b>– <b>In October, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) fell four-tenths of a percentage point to 7.0 percent, the second consecutive decline of four-tenths of a percentage point. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the commonwealth’s 14 MSAs, the Pittsburgh MSA was ranked as the 5th lowest unemployment rate in October. Within the Pittsburgh MSA, Butler County (6.4%) had the lowest rate while Fayette County (8.7%) had the highest rate. Among Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, unemployment rates ranged from 5.3 percent in Centre County to 11.2 percent in Cameron County. </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seasonally adjusted </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">total nonfarm jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA rose 8,400 in October to 1,149,600. </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">October tied for the third largest employment increase on record. Statewide jobs also showed growth, up 13,800 to 5,690,900. Jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA were up 21,600 (1.9%) from October 2010, while Pennsylvania’s jobs rose 54,500 (1.0%) from last year’s level. </span>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-28216896774173003302011-11-01T07:22:00.001-04:002011-11-01T07:24:59.059-04:00Pittsburgh Region's Unemployment Rate Declines<div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unemployment in the Pittsburgh region fell in September, a sign the economy is improving as employers add more jobs, experts said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is a good report. The economy is going upstream. We're still not at 2007 and 2008 (pre-recession) levels, but we're not that far from there," said Frank Gamrat, an economist and senior research associate for the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, a Castle Shannon think tank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The jobless rate fell mainly because schools reopened and rehired staff, adding 7,200 jobs, state and area economists said. Another big jump came in the transportation and warehousing sector, which added 3,400. On the negative side, wholesale and retail trades lost 3,400.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The region -- Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties -- continued a trend of year-over-year job increases. There were almost 13,000 more jobs in September than a year ago, increasing the total to 1.147 million, the state Center for Workforce Information and Analysis said in its report.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In September, Pennsylvania's jobless rate was 8.3 percent and the national rate was 9.1 percent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not all the region's economic news was good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the region's jobs picture is better off than a year ago, Harold Miller, president of Future Strategies LLC, a Downtown consulting firm, said the rate of regional growth slowed a bit from August to September, compared to pre-recession levels of September 2008.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local schools experienced the job increases from August to September, but there were 2,700 fewer total local education jobs than a year ago, which is likely the results of cutbacks caused by the reduction in state funding, Miller said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We are slowly creeping back up," Miller said. "It was pretty much a typical September. It was pretty weak on the government side."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The manufacturing sector, where the region had lost 12,000 jobs in the recession, has added 3,300 jobs since the recession ended in July 2009, bring its total to 89,600 jobs in September, Miller said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We're adding jobs, but the jobs are not coming back where we lost them," Miller said, about the shrinking number of manufacturing jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read more: </span><a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_764828.html#ixzz1cS4KAZbT" style="color: #003399;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Region's unemployment rate declines - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_764828.html">http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_764828.html</a></span></div>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-46313844304247233782011-10-27T09:19:00.001-04:002011-10-27T09:24:14.730-04:00Do Employers Screen Applicants Using Social Networks? You Bet!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recent survey conducted by Reppler asked 300 employers questions about if and how they have used social networks to screen candidates.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; word-spacing: 2px;">Reppler is a social media monitoring service designed to help users manage their online image across different social networks. It does so by showing users how they are perceived across social networks, by telling users the makeup of their social network connections, and by identifying any potential issues and risks. Reppler is a free service and supports various social networking services, like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.</span><br />
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(AUGUST 30) </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">–
<b>In July, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the seven-county Pittsburgh
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) rose one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.4
percent. </b>The local rate was below Pennsylvania’s rate (7.8%) and the United
States’ rate (9.1%). The Pittsburgh MSA’s unemployment rate was down
five-tenths of a percentage point from July 2010, while Pennsylvania’s rate was
down eight-tenths of a percentage point and the national rate was down
four-tenths over the same period. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Among
the commonwealth’s 14 MSAs, the Pittsburgh MSA had the sixth lowest
unemployment rate in July. Within the Pittsburgh MSA, Butler County (6.9%) had
the lowest rate and Fayette County (9.4%) had the highest rate. Among
Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, unemployment rates ranged from 6.1 percent in
Centre County to 11.0 percent in Cameron County. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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adjusted </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">total
nonfarm jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA rose 2,900 in July to 1,143,100. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">July marked the sixth
monthly increase in seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs in the 2011 calendar
year. Statewide jobs also trended positively, adding 8,700 in July to
5,693,200. Jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA were up 14,600 (1.3%) from July 2010,
while Pennsylvania’s jobs rose 70,500 (1.3%) from the previous year’s level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Goods-producing
jobs in the Pittsburgh MSA fell by 100 in July to 152,900. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">July’s
goods-producing decline followed four consecutive months of increases of at
least 3,000. Construction continued to show growth (+600), and has now shown
positive movements for five consecutive months. Manufacturing accounted for the
only goods-producing decline, ending a four-month positive trend. Over the
year, goods producers have added 3,800 jobs, with manufacturing (+1,500),
mining & logging (+1,200), and construction (+1,100) all showing increases
beyond previous year’s levels. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Service-providing
jobs fell 10,900 in July, returning below the one million job mark. Government
provided the steepest decline in July, carried by a seasonal job loss in public
schools. The local government decline of 11,900 was slightly larger than the
previous five-year average decline of 10,300. Trade, transportation, and
utilities experienced the second largest over-the-month job decline, down
1,800. This decline was associated with school bus transportation, and was
relatively minor compared to the previous five-year average decline. Professional
& business services provided the largest July increase, adding 1,700 jobs
and matching the supersector record level of 163,200 set in July of 2008.
Leisure & hospitality added 600 jobs in July, establishing a new all-time
high level of 116,200. </span></div>
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the year, five out of the eight service providing supersectors have shown
growth. Trade, transportation, & utilities (+4,800), professional &
business services (+3,300), and education & health services (+3,000) have
provided the greatest over-the-year increases. Conversely, government (-2,700),
information (-300), and other services (-100) have experienced declines from
the previous year’s levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-5825183053508899062011-08-16T12:51:00.003-04:002011-08-16T12:53:45.093-04:00Comcast Cable Introduces Low Cost Internet Service Plan For Disadvantaged Families In Pittsburgh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">As the nation’s largest Internet
service provider, Comcast is spearheading an ambitious and comprehensive
broadband adoption experiment called Internet Essentials.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The goal of Internet Essentials is to
help close the digital divide and ensure more Americans benefit from all that
the Internet as to offer. It is available to families with children who receive
a free school lunch as part </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">of their enrollment in the National
School Lunch Program in more than 4,000 school districts in 39 states plus the
District of Columbia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">While participating in Internet
Essentials, participants receive:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• Low-cost Internet for $9.95 a month
(plus applicable taxes);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• No price increases, no activation
fees, or equipment rental fees;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• A voucher redeemable to purchase a
low-cost computer ($149.99 + tax) given at initial enrollment;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• Access to free digital literacy
training in print, online or in-person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Internet Essentials customers also
receive Norton™ Security Suite ($160 value) for comprehensive online security,
at no additional charge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Essentials will become available
during the 2011-2012 “Back to School” season. A household is eligible to
participate in Internet Essentials if it meets all of the following criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• Is located where Comcast offers
Internet service;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• Has at least one child who receives
a free school lunch as part of his/her enrollment in the National School Lunch Program;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• Has not subscribed to Comcast
Internet service within the last 90 days;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">• Does not have an overdue Comcast
bill or unreturned equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Comcast will accept new program
participants through the end of the 2013-2014 school year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">For general information about Internet
Essentials, visit: www.InternetEssentials.com (for English) and </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">www.InternetBasico.com (for Spanish). For
educators or community-based program leaders, visit: <a href="http://www.internetessentials.com/partner"><span style="color: windowtext;">www.InternetEssentials.com/partner</span></a>.
For parents looking to enroll in the program, call 1-855-846-8376 or for
Spanish call 1-855-765-6995.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3241166392920391775.post-1038841823203401682011-08-05T14:24:00.006-04:002011-08-05T15:04:34.011-04:00Monster Employment Index For Pittsburgh Reaches Record High Level For July!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Monster Employment Index, which measures the number of
job postings across a broad spectrum of job boards and compares that number to
a base year of 2003, reached a record level for Pittsburgh at 169 for July.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the strongest
Pittsburgh employment categories include “<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Business and Financial Operations”, “Community
and </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Social Services”, “Healthcare Support”,
“Food Preparation and Serving”, “Building, Grounds Cleaning, Maintenance” and “Transportation
and Material Moving.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nationwide the Labor Department
reported that 117,000 jobs were created in July with the prior two months
estimates increased by a combined 54,000 jobs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a complete breakdown of both
the local and national employment <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>indexes <a href="http://about-monster.com/employment-index">please click here</a>.</span></span><o:p></o:p>EmploymentGuide.com, Pittsburghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09723471423386038137noreply@blogger.com0