State Figures Show Record Visitors To Florida In 2011
If the Sunshine State seemed a little more crowded to you last year, it was.
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If the Sunshine State seemed a little more crowded to you last year, it was.
Governor Rick Scott has a full schedule in South Florida on Friday. His first major stop is at an opening of a new business in Kendall before heading to the Latin Builders Association's monthly meeting and concluding his day at the United States Southern Command in Doral.
Hotel chain Loews is holding a job fair Tuesday, hoping to fill various positions for its Miami Beach location.
Miami-Dade Transit is looking to fill over120 part-time bus driver positions. The move comes after some veteran full-time bus drivers are being trained to become Metrorail operators for the forthcoming elevated train line to Miami International Airport.
Job seekers may be able to find some relief at a job fair at the St. Regis Bal Harbour on Thursday.
Governor Rick Scott got a first shot at a mock hip surgery with a robotic arm, during a tour of South Florida's MAKO Surgical Corporation.
The Marlins will be hosting a Job Fair next week as the team makes a transition into a new home. The club said they will be required to fill over 2,000 positions.
More than a dozen Fortune 500 companies are looking to hire new employees on the second day of the Vanguard Management Group's job fair.
At least 30 employers participated in The South Florida Diversity Job Expo Friday in Davie.
Miami-Dade County and Broward County both saw some improvement in the jobs front, according to numbers released Friday by the Department of Economic Opportunity.
Spirit Airlines wants you to apply for a job. Fort Lauderdale's hometown airline will host a job fair Wednesday as it seeks to fill a variety of positions.
Gov. Rick Scott again changed his stance Friday on the jobs promise he made during last year's campaign in a written statement titled in part, "Setting the Record Straight."
South Florida job seekers may be in luck. That's because the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is betting on new jobs, and it's getting ready for a hiring spree.
The latest job numbers out of the U.S. Labor Department and private employment analysts showed unemployment dropped in about two-thirds of the major metropolitan areas around the country, giving hope to the jobless around the area.
Time Warner Inc. is bringing 500 jobs to Florida. Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday announced that the media and entertainment conglomerate that owns Home Box Office and CNN has chosen Tampa, Florida over other locations, including Atlanta.
In Miami's Brickell section Friday, a line of job-seekers snaked out the door and down the block at the soon to open Hampton Inn. The hotel was looking to hire fewer than 40 employees. In the first hour of the job fair, nearly 400 people showed up.
Jerold Nelson was hard at work Thursday at his new job at Interactive Blue Communications (IBC), a small design and consulting firm in Miami-Dade. The 51 year-old husband and father landed the job after ten months of unemployment and a seemingly hopeless outlook.
The jobs picture improved nationwide in August as the number of layoffs dropped 23 percent from July, according to consultants Challenger, Gray, & Christmas, Inc,; but Florida is still struggling to create jobs.
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Kohl's has put out the "Help Wanted" sign in South Florida.
The economic recovery may be happening in some areas, but with unemployment in Miami-Dade County soaring above 13 percent, jobs are a scarce commodity. But Walmart is trying to change that statistic.
Jobseekers trying to get back into the workforce are attending a job expo Friday in Davie. The South Florida Diversity Job Expo, a community outreach project, is a free event open to the public until 3 p.m.
It's a mix of good and bad news for South Florida's jobless claims. First-time unemployment claims for May continue to trend below where they were a year ago.
How do you feel about your boss getting a peek at your credit history? If you're looking for work it's very possible you'll be asked to share that information in order to get the job. But there's a move underway across the country to stop that from happening.
You've got five free minutes, but ten things that need to get done ASAP. So what do you do? You do a couple of them at the same time. It's the art of multi-tasking. We're all doing it more than ever, but research indicates we might not really be getting ahead.
