Campbell Culinary School Offers Returning Vets Job Placement Skills
The International Culinary Center California campus in Campbell is doing its part in changing the dreadful number of unemployed returning veterans between the ages of 18 and 24.
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The International Culinary Center California campus in Campbell is doing its part in changing the dreadful number of unemployed returning veterans between the ages of 18 and 24.
Hewlett-Packard plans to jettison 27,000 workers as the growing popularity of smartphones, the iPad and other mobile devices makes it tougher for the company to sell personal computers.
Thanks to a number of big projects like the 49ers stadium, hospitals and office building construction, things are going gangbusters for building companies in Silicon Valley.
California's unemployment rate dipped by a tenth of a percentage point in April to 10.9 percent as a federal survey showed 20,000 new jobs were created.
A drop in the state's unemployment rate to 11 percent - its lowest mark in three years - is triggering the federal cutoff of emergency, long-term unemployment pay to at least 93,000 Californians.
Apple, Google and other Silicon Valley tech companies continue to hang out the help wanted sign. The latest employment figures show that the biggest demand for workers in the Bay Area continues to be for workers with skills in technology.
The rate released Friday was up just one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month but was the first time since December that California's jobless rate hit or exceeded 11 percent.
Contra Costa continues to receive low-level offenders as part of the state's realignment plan to ease prison overcrowding, and now there is an effort to get inmates out of jail, and into employment.
BART trains are expected to start running through Silicon Valley in 2016.
The state Employment Development Department reported Friday that the jobless rate held the same from January, when it dipped below 11 percent for the first time in three years.
California's unemployment rate fell below 11 percent in January for the first time in nearly three years.
In this KCBS Cover Story, reporter Margie Shafer looks at how the tech sector is leading to a more optimistic business climate in San Francisco.
In the Bay Area and across the nation, new jobs are scarce for those over 50 and out of work. Many of them have been forced to rethink their career path, which is leading an increasing number to become truck drivers.
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo is expected to hire more people this year than last. Hundreds are expected to find work at an upcoming job fair.
Six Northern California cities made Forbes' list of the worst places to live in the country, including Sacramento at No. 5 for the second year in a row, according to the magazine.
California prison officials have sent layoff notices to 545 employees, including 140 guards, as the inmate population declines to comply with a federal court order.
A report released Thursday claimed it will take another two to three years for the Bay Area to regain all jobs that were lost in the recession. However, the report also suggested that the road to recovery runs right through Silicon Valley.
Buoyed by seasonal hiring, California's unemployment rate dipped slightly in December to 11.1 percent, down two-tenths of a percent from the previous month.
City spokeswoman Karen Boyd said the notices will go to employees in every city department except for employees in the police and fire departments, whose contracts bar them from being laid off.
Judging by some of the methods being used to lure potential employees, the high-tech boom is back in San Francisco.
The California Employment Development Department said Wednesday that about 1.1 million residents will begin losing unemployment extensions at the end of this year if Congress does not extend benefits.
The Bay Area congressional delegation was heading back to the nation's capitol Monday to vote on a measure to extend a middle class tax cut.
California's unemployment rate fell to 11.3 percent in November, the lowest it has been since May 2009.
High tech workers formerly employed by Solyndra are getting some much-needed help in the search for new jobs. Two cities are holding career fairs specifically for laid off workers of the failed solar start-up.
But, the hard-hit construction industry could soon be seeing some better times, following the awarding of more than $1 billion in contracts for the BART to San Jose project.
