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- New 'green collar' job placement portal launches - MLive.com
- Job seekers attend Pleasant Hill job fair - KGO
- AP NATIONAL NEWS - MLive.com
- Welding students will soon enter struggling job market - Frederick News-Post
| New 'green collar' job placement portal launches - MLive.com Posted: 17 Apr 2010 04:42 AM PDT By Jackie HeadapohlApril 17, 2010, 7:42AM Green Collar Earth is a job placement board for people seeking environmentally friendly work.If you're dream job consists of working to promote a green economy, then you'll be happy to hear a new job placement portal that launched this week.Green Collar Earth is a job search, career and recruitment website devoted specifically to green-collar employment. "I created Green Collar Earth to support job seekers and green companies who are focused on creating and sustaining healthy environments," said Karen McCulloch, founder and CEO of Green Collar Earth LLC. Green Collar Earth posts employment opportunities only from companies whose openings fit the United Nations Environmental Program definition of a green job — those that help protect ecosystems and biodiversity, use natural resources efficiently and reduce waste. The site, which will post opportunities from across the country, doesn't have many positions posted yet, but it does have an interesting blog about green collar employment. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Job seekers attend Pleasant Hill job fair - KGO Posted: 10 Apr 2010 06:26 PM PDT PLEASANT HILL, CA (KGO) -- Some East Bay residents brought their resumes to a career fair Saturday, hoping to launch a new career.
Job seekers checked out opportunities with more than 40 employers at an event at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. East Bay Rep. John Garamendi's, D-Caif., office sponsored the job fair. "People want to work, we need that; we need taxpayers, we've got far too many tax takers, people on unemployment insurance and the like," Garamendi said. It also featured workshops on how making career changes, and looking for work after age 55. jobs, east bay news Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:43 AM PDT • 'Cloud' music plans no longer just pie in the sky 4/19/2010, 4:00 a.m. EDT • A glance at flight disruptions due to volcanic ash 4/17/2010, 8:35 a.m. EDT • Prices, sales up for new construction in San Diego, down in Riverside: Builders optimistic amid signs of buyers 4/17/2010, 7:20 a.m. EDT Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Welding students will soon enter struggling job market - Frederick News-Post Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:58 PM PDT
For five consecutive years, welding students at Frederick County Career and Technology Center have passed their American Welding Society certification. As school officials applaud their accomplishments, the students are concerned jobs will be hard to come by after graduation. All 13 of the second-year students in CTC's Agriculture and Commercial Metals program earned their structural steel certification in the 3G position. Two students also passed their more advanced overhead 4G certification. The 3G position certification qualifies welding in the flat, horizontal and vertical positions with a single test. The 4G position is a groove weld in the overhead position, which qualifies a welder to weld in the flat, horizontal and overhead positions with a single test. The students' accomplishments are significant because they have proved they can be successful in using their welding skills in several ways, instructor Doug Hering said. The two welding classes have used more than $2,500 in steel to fabricate projects for themselves or people in the community, he said. After high school, some students will look for jobs, others will go to college or pursue additional training. But employment in the welding field is down in Frederick County and surrounding areas because the economy and the county's largest welding employer -- Miscellaneous Metals -- has downsized and laid off workers, Hering said. "Their welding skill is something they can keep and be employable when things turn around," Hering said. Some of the students' completed steel fabrication projects include sheep fencing panels, barbecue grills, round-bale spears, and steer feeders. The students have learned to read blueprints, take accurate measurements and work together as a team, CTC Principal Greg Solberg said. "The application of their skills and thought process is the key," he said. The welding fabrication team, consisting of Robert Bittner, Kris Montesino and Chris Pelan, placed first in the state and will be competing in the National SkillsUSA Welding Fabrication contest in Kansas City, Mo., in June. And four students placed fourth out of 12 in the state FFA agricultural mechanics contest. "I'm really looking forward to seeing them in the national competition," Solberg said. Adam King passed his 4G certification, but he returned to the program for an extra semester of extended studies. He plans to get his journeyman degree and look for a job, he said. Claybourne Zimmerman wants to study dairy science at Virginia Tech and return to work on his grandparents' farm, if possible, he said. "The way things are going right now, with the dairy industry kind of in a cycle of low milk prices, a lot of farmers are basically giving milk away or working for a loss," Zimmerman said. "I want to learn how milk is marketed, manage animals and run a profitable operation." His welding certification will come in handy on the farm but if things don't work out, he can fall back on his welding skills, Zimmerman said. Other students who received their welding certification are Jimmy Arrington, Seth Bussard, Jeshua Daniel, Dalton Fouche, Kyle Halliburton, Hunter Lumley, Brandon Reese, Kyle Sprecher, Cody Starner and Bryan Warner. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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