CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE PILOT! (THE FOLLOWING IS COPY FROM A NEW PILOT FOR A MONTHLY JOB REPORT PRODUCED BY VERMONTTV.NET FOR JOBSINVT.COM) The July job numbers showed positive signs that the worst of the economic downturn may be behind us. Let’s start by looking at the statewide job posting numbers. In July, the total number of openings posted on JobsInVT grew to 970, which is up nearly 12% over June. Year over year, [...]
Upon reading this internal communication, I realized just how much negative press has been devoted to exposing the dark underbelly of corporate greed through the acquisition of private and revealing emails. Rarely does one encounter a news bit that begins with, “Our station has acquired a copy of the internal email…”, and is followed by a feel-good or uplifting story. Normally, this type of exposure ends in a story about some type of insidious and [...]
Why would you want to keep a two billion dollar industry a secret? I hope the answer is that no one would want to, but that sometimes these things happen. The aerospace and aviation industry represents a two billion dollar piece of the Vermont economy, and employs thousands of Vermont residents…who knew. In a previous life, part of my job was (this statement has been revised since I have changed employers) to identify and develop [...]
Just getting out ahead of the curve a bit on this one. My firm will be releasing the following press release shortly. Amazingly, while job seeker traffic is at record highs, there has also been growth in online job postings for two consecutive months New England’s #1 Recruitment Resource shows record growth in monthly traffic and job postings. Westbrook, ME. April, 3 2009— For 10 years the JobsinTheUS.com (JiUS) network of state specific, online recruitment [...]
I spent some time this morning pulling some data and analyzing our metrics from February. Though expecting to see a reflection of the economic status, I was very surprised to see actual growth in the number of job postings from Jan to Feb 2009. Trust me, I didn’t believe it at first either. I went back and forth, looking over the numbers in various ways from various reports, but it’s true. That being said, it [...]