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Restaurant hiring outpaced overall employment growth nationwide year-over-year, and one in five eateries plans to increase its staffing in the second half of the year, according to the National Restaurant Association.
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A few months ago there was a small outcry when it was revealed that employers, in the process of screening job applicants, wanted to check out would-be workers' Facebook pages. The screeners were looking for any kind of red flag that a social network site might yield.
Surviving in today's world requires the ability to adjust to changing situations, including in the employment environment, because nobody can predict the future, Google Japan Inc.'s head of talent acquisition said Saturday.
A Florence-based company said that after being named a subcontractor in a recently awarded $20.5 billion defense contract that it will start hiring more than 600 people later this year.
The new $41.7 million Minneapolis school headquarters built in the heart of the North Side stands out for its record in hiring women and minority workers and contractors.
California's unemployment rate continued to fall in June amid the most robust job creation since before the Great Recession.
Zurich, a commercial property-casualty insurance company, will add 150 jobs downtown over the next few years, boosting its presence there to about 500 insurance and risk-management professionals.
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