CBS4 Investigates: Jobless Need Not Apply
Conventional wisdom dictates that it is easier to find a job when you already have a job. Now there is increasing proof that companies are openly telling the jobless that they need not apply.
Watch CBS News
Conventional wisdom dictates that it is easier to find a job when you already have a job. Now there is increasing proof that companies are openly telling the jobless that they need not apply.
Florida has been steadily nibbling away at unemployment benefits, including reducing the number of weeks most people receive. Now, the state may force you to be trained for a new career to get the benefits you earned when you lost the old one.
The Fresh Market, a chain of specialty grocery stores, is looking for a few good men and women to become employees of its new Fort Lauderdale store opening in January.
The Millennials are here! What's a Millennial you ask? CBS4's Cynthia Demos explains the generation of people between adolescence and thirty... who are inching into the workforce as the baby boomers are starting to leave it.
The state of Florida's jobless rate remains well above the national average, but did decline by 0.3 percent in October to a monthly average of 10.3 percent.
Will Florida's jobless figures be better or worse than last month? We'll find out Friday when the state's October unemployment rate will be released.
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.
South Florida veterans and military service members who are in need of a job can get help at the Hiring Our Heroes/RecruitMilitary Veteran Opportunity Expo.
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.
South Florida veterans and military service members who are in need of a job can get help at the Hiring Our Heroes/RecruitMilitary Veteran Opprtunity Expo.
At least 30 employers participated in The South Florida Diversity Job Expo Friday in Davie.
Even though new claims for unemployment are dropping, 10.6 percent of the people in the state of Florida are still unemployed.
When more than 40,000 troops leave Iraq in the next two months, many will make their way back home to re-join the civilian world. In addition to emotional challenges, many of these heroes will find themselves unemployed, without civilian skills.
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.
Are you looking for a job? There are about 30 companies participating in a job fair in Davie Thursday.
Florida Governor Rick Scott outlined his 2012 job creation agenda Wednesday morning and it includes several of the hot button conservative issues being pushed in both Washington and Tallahassee.
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."
A program to help Florida kids who are poor, but not poor enough for Medicaid, is not growing despite a poor economy that's leaving parents without extra money or, in some cases, jobs and health insurance for their families.
Some call it another sign of our struggling economic times. With a nationwide unemployment rate of more than nine percent, Hallmark has come out with a line of cards for people who have lost their jobs.
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.
It's a sign of the approaching Holiday Shopping Season; a holiday hiring fair at Sawgrass Mills brought out some pretty good crowds Tuesday.
Are you looking for a job? There are more than a dozen companies participating in a job fair in Coral Gables Thursday.
Unemployment remains stagnated in double digits some eight months after Governor Rick Scott pledged to get Florida workers back on the job.
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.
