The southern part of Florida lost more jobs over the last year than anywhere else in the state. According to a state Agency for Workforce Innovation report, the unemployment rate climbed in all three counties. Approximately 20,800
Florida jobs were lost in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach metropolitan area since March 2007. The Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater area employers did away with 17,300 positions.
Despite the loss of Miami jobs over the last year, the unemployment rate saw modest improvement in March as it dropped from 3.9 percent to 3.8 percent. Nevertheless, this is still higher than the previous year’s jobless rate of 3.5 percent.
Most of the
Miami jobs lost were in the construction industry, which made up 59 percent of the state’s employment losses. Throughout Florida 82,100 positions were lost in this industry between March 2007 and March 2008. Following construction, manufacturing lost the second most opportunities for employment. Both of these industries have been greatly effected by the area’s floundering housing market.
The largest increase in
Miami jobs and those elsewhere in the state came in education and health services, which added 35,100 positions throughout Florida, followed by government, which grew by 24,400 jobs, and leisure and hospitality added 17,500 jobs. Nevertheless, the state is still short 56,600 jobs from the previous year.
Despite the increased employment in education, many Miami jobs in this area are expected to soon be done away with. In a recent Miami-Dade County School Board meeting a $14 million budget cut was voted on and approved. Before May the district plans on doing away 164 Miami jobs, mostly those of school psychologists and social workers.
Officials said that these layoffs will not be the last. There are already plans in the making for another, much larger, decrease in funds which is expected to occur in May of this year. Although the first is not expected to effect the quality of the district’s schools, there is no word yet if Miami teaching jobs will be effected in May’s budget cuts. The Board’s ultimate goal is to decrease the district’s spending by approximately $200 million by next year.
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With employers struggling to fill many
jobs in healthcare, hiring temporary workers has become increasing popular. Because of this there has been a rise in what are called travel nurses, individuals that take assignments throughout the country. This enables facilities to continue to run smoothly and efficiently with a full staff until a more permanent employee can be found.
Recently it was announced that AlliedVIP.com, a free service provided for Allied Healthcare Professionals, will be changing the way its users apply for jobs in healthcare that require travel. Prior to this users were required to apply to multiple companies separately. Now, members who are interested in positions with various Allied Healthcare Companies will be able to fill out only one online application and have it sent to
numerous employers at once.
This improvement is expected to greatly decrease the amount of time it takes for users to apply for healthcare jobs. According to a
AlliedVIP.com press release, the demand for qualified healthcare professionals is so great that travel nurses are calling most of the shots when it comes to job opportunities. It is the websites goal to treat each user as the VIP that they are.
Unlike some sites, AlliedVIP.com does not charge those who are already members to research information about companies that are hiring for jobs in healthcare. They also do not charge users for applying for various positions online.
In addition to providing information about available healthcare jobs, the website also has a large database of various important research material that is pertinent to travel nurses such as wage and benefit information, travel guides, and detailed contact information for individual state license boards.
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More people were able to find jobs in Reno, Nevada in February than in the previous month. The area unemployment rate dropped from 6.6 percent to 6.3 percent. Approximately 217,800 people has Reno jobs while about 14,600 were out of work.
Reno jobs in retail decreased, as did those in financial activities in February. Employment in education-health services, professional business services, and manufacturing was up. There was also an increase in those who held government jobs in the area, but this may not last long.
It was recently announced that by mid-2009 analysts estimate that there will be a Nevada revenue deficit of almost $800 million if things continue as there are. Governor Jim Gibbons' press secretary, Ben Kieckhefer, says that "he will have to find ways to tighten the state's belt."
In order to soften this blow, Gibbons is expected to soon review budget cut plans that go beyond the 4.5 percent cuts he imposed in January. Although doing away with government jobs in Reno and elsewhere statewide has been avoided at this point, it is still consider an option to decrease the deficit.
If it is decided that doing away with jobs is the best way to decrease the budget then a good number of individuals could soon be without work, although Reno's portion of the potential cuts is still unknown. In this case, those who stand to lose their state government job would be wise to look for the comparable federal positions, since the benefits are often similar.
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