Archive for March, 2010

Milwaukee Construction Jobs Decline 18.8 Percent Over the Year

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

As more jobs were lost on a monthly and yearly basis and the area’s unemployment rate continued to climb, Milwaukee construction jobs saw the biggest yearly decline in employment.

During January, the Milwaukee area’s unemployment rate increased from 8.6 percent to 9.6 percent, following an increase from 8.4 percent during December 2009. The most recent increase places the area’s rate just below the national unemployment rate of 9.7 percent.

The Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis area had a total non-farm employment of 781,600 workers during January, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 799,000 workers during December and a 4.8 percent decrease from last year.

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Arizona Manufacturing Jobs Lost to California

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

What could have been new Arizona manufacturing jobs are now going to California.

Scottsdale-based Kyocera Solar Inc. recently announced that it will open a new factory in San Diego despite statewide efforts to create incentives and attract alternative-energy companies to Arizona.

Kyocera Solar Inc. is a subsidiary of Kyoto, Japan-based Kyocera Corporation, which currently has about 4,000 American employees. The company has solar-panel factories in Japan, China, the Czech Republic, and Tijuana, Mexico.

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing Companies Could Benefit from New Partnership

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Companies in recruitment process outsourcing (Click here), staffing and advertising may be among those to benefit from a new partnership.

MAXIMUS Tax Credit and Employer Services, a division of MAXIMUS, Inc., recently announced its alliance with Broadbean Technology, a global provider of job advertisement distribution and candidate response tracking technology.

The partnerships will allow Broadbean’s current customer base, which is comprised of some of the world’s largest staffing companies, recruitment advertising agencies, technology vendors and recruitment process outsourcing businesses, to post openings on MAXOutreach, MTCES’ job recruitment and compliance solution.

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