Major Omaha area companies will still make prescence at UNO's job fair
Tim Kucera
Issue date: 3/9/10 Section: News
The annual job fair being held at the UNO is a massive magnet for young, career-bound college students. The event will be held on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom, located on the second floor.
Union Pacific, Applied Underwriters, National Indemnity, Gallup, ConAgra, First National Bank, Wells Fargo, Northwestern Mutual, ExxonMobil and NorthStar Financial Services Group are a few of the companies setting up kiosks.
With the recent tanking of the American economy, sizeable portions of college-educated citizens have been cast aside from the professional marketplace. Jobs are becoming a highly sought-after commodity in which a solid foundation has not been established for recent college alumni.
With about 70 employers looking to fill open positions and internships at the fair, the competition among potential employees will be fierce. Hundreds are expected to attend with business attire preferred.
The unemployment rate is holding at a steady 9.7 percent, which is approximately 14.9 million working age adults unable to find work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Around 2.5 million people were attached marginally to the labor force in February. This means that they were unemployed and had not searched for work in four weeks before the survey. During the same time period a year ago, only 473,000 workers were classified in this manner.
With so much equity in our nation's infrastructure being shifted, new jobs have sprung up in various sectors that have been overlooked in the past. The growing population of aging citizens has allowed health care to create thousands of jobs.
These decent prospects for a stable job in the present economy command a huge draw for many individuals searching for future prosperity.
Union Pacific, Applied Underwriters, National Indemnity, Gallup, ConAgra, First National Bank, Wells Fargo, Northwestern Mutual, ExxonMobil and NorthStar Financial Services Group are a few of the companies setting up kiosks.
With the recent tanking of the American economy, sizeable portions of college-educated citizens have been cast aside from the professional marketplace. Jobs are becoming a highly sought-after commodity in which a solid foundation has not been established for recent college alumni.
With about 70 employers looking to fill open positions and internships at the fair, the competition among potential employees will be fierce. Hundreds are expected to attend with business attire preferred.
The unemployment rate is holding at a steady 9.7 percent, which is approximately 14.9 million working age adults unable to find work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Around 2.5 million people were attached marginally to the labor force in February. This means that they were unemployed and had not searched for work in four weeks before the survey. During the same time period a year ago, only 473,000 workers were classified in this manner.
With so much equity in our nation's infrastructure being shifted, new jobs have sprung up in various sectors that have been overlooked in the past. The growing population of aging citizens has allowed health care to create thousands of jobs.
These decent prospects for a stable job in the present economy command a huge draw for many individuals searching for future prosperity.
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