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February 21, 2010

Job-hunting in New Orleans? Tradition counts | NOLA.com

Like most things in New Orleans, looking for professional employment can be a unique experience, and newcomers are finding they need to adjust their job-hunting tactics to suit the more traditional approaches New Orleans firms expect...

New Orleans Career Makeover Tuesday hosted by CareerBuilder and University of Phoenix | Reuters

The U.S.'s largest online job site and the largest private university in North America are teaming up to bring New Orleans job seekers a career fair that goes above and beyond just offering job opportunities. CareerBuilder and University of Phoenix are putting New Orleans job seekers in touch with professional resume writers, image consultants and networking experts to help them retool their job-hunting approach and make themselves more marketable to employers.

4,200 new jobs forecast for Shreveport-Bossier City in 2010-11 | shreveporttimes.com | The Times

A line forms Wednesday in the parking lot of Christ United Methodist Church in Shreveport before the start of one of nine job fairs Louisiana is holding for citizens with disabilities. (Greg Pearson/The Times)

New Orleans leads nation in income growth | WWL - AM870 | FM105.3

A new study indicates that per capita income in New Orleans has grown at a faster pace than in any other U.S. metropolitan area.
Figures for all of 2008 put the average income in the city now at $44,136.

Louisiana jobs decline in August | Business | 2theadvocate.com

State loses 2,500 positions; down 32,100 from year ago
Two engines of the economy — manufacturing and the trade-transportation-utilities sectors — accounted for most of the annual job losses in Louisiana, showing the broad impact of the national recession that began in late 2007.

New Orleans area Home Depot lays off employees | NOLA.com

Home Depot laid off an unspecified number of employees at some New Orleans area stores this week, saying it needs fewer workers as post-hurricane rebuilding efforts taper.
Which metro area stores were affected or how many individuals lost their jobs were not specified.

New Orleans metro soft job market expected | WWL - AM870 | FM105.3

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner area employers expect to hire at a slow pace during the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.

Entergy relocating 200 workers from New Orleans to Jackson | KFDM News

Entergy is moving about 200 of its transmission workers from New Orleans to the Jackson area.

Entergy Mississippi spokeswoman Mara Hartmann said more than half the workers have arrived in Jackson, but others will move to the area into 2010.

New Orleans day laborers want wage theft criminalized | ISS

Many of New Orleans' Hispanic migrant workers have faced rampant wage theft, coercion and abuse. Following the hurricanes, in what labor rights advocates have called the "disaster after the disaster," hundreds of contractors along the Gulf Coast employed migrant workers to clean up debris, repair damaged roofs and restore flood-soaked buildings, Contractors then reneged on promises to pay workers after that work was completed...

More New Orleans-area job losses forecast | Forbes.com

The New Orleans metropolitan area gained 1,100 jobs in the year ending March 31 only because of a 3,900-job increase in state and local government employment, according to a study by the University of New Orleans...

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