Heroes Get Hired: How To Use Your Military Experience to Master the Interview (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
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WAAY 31's Alex Finnie reports on a series of job training seminars being held by the City of Huntsville

That frosty tide of golden brown craft beer has finally come in, and it's helping quench New Mexico's thirst for jobs and economic development.

The U.S. Air Force expects the loss of 258 positions at the Robins Air Force Base

WDEF News 12 first broke the story on Friday, then brought you Volkswagen's big S-U-V announcement live from Germany this morning. Volkswagen will build its new S-U-V here in Chattanooga. WDEF News 12's Joe Legge has the story.

A new study shows that people who stay at one company for more than two years end up making 50 percent less money over the length of their career. Consumer advisor Clark Howard tells you why more companies aren't paying their employees for their loyalty.

The worlds largest retailer making a $250 billion commitment to buying American.

A Roanoke organization wants the city to do away with checking the box that asks if you are a convicted felon on job applications

It's not often that Google 's two founders do a joint interview, so when they do it's worth paying attention. Larry Page and Sergey Brin conducted a fireside chat late last week with Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, about everything from self-driving cars and artificial intelligence to health projects and the unnecessary complexity of government. Page, currently Google's CEO, discussed the need for business leaders to maintain a 20-year vision instead of a 4-year vision and revealed the criticism he got from Steve Jobs (You guys are doing too much stuff.) He also tackled a couple hot-button issues, including his belief that society doesn't actually need everyone to work full-time anymore.



A surprisingly robust job market is energizing the 5-year-old U.S. recovery and driving the economy closer to full health. Employers added 288,000 jobs in June and helped cut the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, the lowest since 2008. It was the fifth straight gain above 200,000 — the best such stretch since the late 1990s tech boom. The stock market signaled its approval. The Dow Jones industrial average surged 92 points to top 17,000 for the first time.

A new survey shows, that much of the recent hiring that the government will report Friday in its monthly employment report can be credited to smartphones. According to a survey of about 4,000 users last month by online job site Beyond.com, eighty-three percent of job seekers use smartphones or tablets to search for openings. At least half of survey respondents said mobile devices let them hunt for jobs anytime, anywhere. Computers, however, remain the go-to device for job applications.



Rockstar Your Job Interview (Kindle Edition)
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The Arkansas Department of Correction could have seen a fix to a multi-million dollar backpay issue in the form of a bill that didn't make it past committee in the special legislative session. Representative Jim Nickels had filed the bill which would add roughly $5 million to the ADC budget each year to cover holiday comp time pay. As of now, the system owes 3,355 employees more than $8.7 million in pay for holiday hours they've already worked or are owed as comp time. "I've been working to try and address this issue for the three terms I've been a representative," Nickels said. "This an item the system has to pay but it isn't included in its budget. It's a debt off the books." Nickels would have required 29 votes to move the bill forward, he received only 19 in support of the bill and 19 against. "This is money these people are owed," Nickels said. "We have an inmate that has escaped and as I understand it there will be some correctional officers still working to capture him this weekend. On July 4th, they'll be working to bring him back into custody, but they won't be receiving pay for it." According to the Department of Correction, the agency has been requesting that the $4.5 annual cost be added into the base budget. So far, that hasn't occurred and has left the system to look for ways to cover the costs but often accrue. "We're hoping to get that amount of money added into our base as part of our continuing operation and we don't have to keep looking for ways to pay our employees," said Shea Wilson, Department of Correction spokesperson. "We'd like to be able to pay employees what they're owed when they earn it." According to the department, one officer is owed more than $700 in holiday work hours. The department is hoping that the issue will be addressed during fall budget hearings and resolved during the next General Session.

Over the past seven years, college tuition has risen, median incomes have dropped, and unemployment has grown. Depending on where a student attends university, however, these trends can vary significantly. According to analysts, North Dakota is leading the nation, a state where tuition has remained remarkably steady. An oil-rich state, North Dakota is known for providing jobs, decent salaries, and money for state coffers, which can in turn be used to subsidize education Meanwhile, California, Rhode Island and Georgia reside in the nation’s basement, with large decreases in median income, high unemployment rates



San Luis Obispo County is one of the top places in the country for technology-related business and tech jobs. A recent study reveals the county is competing with some of the biggest cities nationwide when it comes to job growth in the technology sector.

Millions of employees now have the right to request flexible working hours under new measures from the Government.

President Barack Obama, as part of efforts to make the U.S. workplace more accommodating for employees with families, will on Monday direct federal agencies to step up efforts give workers more leeway in determining their schedules. The White House said in a statement, the president will issue a memorandum requiring federal agency heads to expand flexible workplace policies as much as possible. The goal is to make it easier for parents or workers to take care of family needs and to enable more people to find and keep jobs.



Plans have been unveiled for a new building at Ignition Park at Notre Dame, which represent 60 new high-paying research jobs. WSBT's Kelli Stopczynski has all the details.

Albuquerque is hoping its Lucky Charms will keep as many as 250 General Mills jobs alive in the company’s cereal plant on the north side of town. General Mills is looking to slash expenses in its North American operations, and that would include the Albuquerque plant. It’s way too early to speculate about layoffs or a plant shutdown. The company will say only that sales are down and it wants to find a way to save $40 million in the coming year, so all North American manufacturing and distribution operations are on the table for a “formal review”. The Albuquerque plant opened in 1991 and underwent a major expansion in 2009. The jobs pay well with good benefits and to lose any or all of them would be a blow to an economy that seems stuck in a rut. Just look at a South Valley job fair organized by state Sen. Michael Padilla. Last year the event drew about 2,000 job-seekers. The one held Tuesday at Harrison Middle School drew more than double that number. New Mexico and New Jersey are the only states to lose jobs during the past twelve months. “I’m looking for a call center position or an IT help desk position,” job-seeker Lisa Abeyta said. “I was recently let go with a company that was – downsizing I guess would be the best way to put it.” “It’s kind of hard to find white collar jobs in Albuquerque,” said Gene Garcia, who described himself as under-employed. “Blue collar jobs are pretty readily available in the trades, especially when it comes to electricians and people with a commercial driver’s license.” Meanwhile, back at General Mills, where the company prides itself on “crunch”, Albuquerque is hoping those jobs avoid the cost-cutting crunch.