RSS | RSS Comments | Subscribe by Email

Tag: unemployment

After Months Without A Job, They Found Work: How’d They Do It?

Downtown Tampa / Andrew Avitus

Tampa, FL – With the Tampa Bay area’s unemployment rate above 11 percent, finding a job these days can take a heroic effort.

Tales of hiring managers being inundated with resumes are everywhere.

When a company called Vangent opened a telephone call center in Riverview earlier this summer, it received 2,000 applications for 200 positions. more…

The Best And Worst Cities To Look For A Job

The unemployment rate in the U.S. was still 9.4 percent in July, but some cities are better than others to look for a job. Of the top 50 metro areas, Washington, D.C., is the easiest for unemployed workers to find a job, while Detroit is the hardest, according to a new Job Market Competition index put together by job search engine Indeed.com. more…