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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Alico has announced they have hired someone for sales jobs in Florida.
The land management company announced today the hiring of Chris Ward as Vice-President for Planning and Business Development, effective August 16, 2010. Mr. Ward will be responsible for providing new business planning and development for Alico, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
Mr. Ward most recently was the Founder and Principal Manager of Magnolia Florida, a private investment fund management company specializing in the acquisition of Florida tax certificates. Alico currently holds a 40% interest in one of these funds. Prior to his involvement with Magnolia Florida, Mr. Ward was the Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for the Southeast Region of Centex Homes and the Vice President of Strategy, North America, for InterContinental Hotels Group. Mr. Ward holds an MBA from the Darden School of business at the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. (more…)
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
A Florida jail that has suspended ten Osceola officers may soon be hiring for corrections officer jobs in Florida if the men end up fired.
Apparently the ten men did not tell the truth on their applications. Ten were suspended Wednesday, and three more on Friday.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has criticized the jail for what it has deemed as ‘weak hiring practices.’
The men were all brought on without an extensive background check, something that one would think would be mandatory when you’re dealing with people protecting or guarding inmates. (more…)
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Inuvo, a leading provider of performance-based online marketing services, has announced they will be setting up shop and adding creating hundreds of telemarketing jobs in Florida.
According to a press release, a leading provider of performance-based online marketing services, Inuvo has selected Orlando, Florida-based Contact Centers of America (CCA) to provide outbound and inbound call center support for BabytoBee.com at its Clearwater headquarters.
“For the past two years we have been using offshore services to support BabytoBee’s online lead generation efforts,” said Carrie Maurer, senior vice president, Inuvo’s Direct to Consumer businesses. “As we work to expand many aspects of our service, we were looking to upgrade our call center support and loved the idea of bringing jobs back to the United States, specifically to Clearwater.”
Through a team of more than 200 call center representatives situated in Inuvo’s Clearwater headquarters’ location, CCA will provide outbound and inbound lead nurturing and qualification services to nearly one million BabytoBee pre- and post-natal customers each year. This upgrade to BabytoBee’s call center services is the first of many improvements Inuvo is making to its BabytoBee offering. In September Inuvo will launch a fully revamped, content- and feature-rich website for BabytoBee.
“We wanted a world-class partner who would tightly integrate with our online lead capturing system, had the experience to support our growing BabytoBee business and was willing to utilize the space available in our Clearwater headquarters. CCA is that solution,” said Maurer. “By working with CCA, Inuvo expects to increase revenue and decrease the cost per lead while enhancing the customer’s experience. Inuvo has a valuable asset in the BabytoBee business. I’m hard pressed to come up with a baby products manufacturer who wouldn’t be interested in these qualified leads. CCA is going to help us increase the value of those leads.”
“Through our partnership, we are creating new jobs right here in our home state of Florida, supporting both companies’ desire to create regional jobs in the high technology industry,” said Joe Jacoboni, CCA CEO. “In this role, we look forward to supporting Inuvo’s standard of excellence in customer service, and helping to drive incremental revenue. The BabytoBee offering requires call center representatives with the compassion and astute phone skills to not only qualify a lead, but also nurture a customer during one of the most exciting and impactful moments of their lives–pregnancy. Our ability to screen, hire and train a top-notch group of representatives with this unique skill set has truly set us apart.”
Tags: telemarketing jobs in Florida
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
The Pensacola campus of Virginia College held a series to workshops to promote jobs in Florida.
According to a press release, the Career Services Department at the Pensacola, Florida, campus of Virginia College recently hosted its first-ever workshops titled “The Hiring Hour” and “Mentoring Builds Career Momentum.” The objective was to promote an atmosphere of professionalism, business networking, and mentoring, and to provide a setting for employment interviews.
Employers representing clinics, hospitals, law firms, the military, professional organizations, the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, and small business owners were present to meet graduates. The grads represented all programs offered at Virginia College in Pensacola. They were dressed professionally, and brought copies of their resumes for admittance to the event.
Senior Vice President of Career Services Scot Stapleton, representing Virginia College parent company Education Corporation of America (ECA), shared insightful comments regarding professionalism in the workplace. Pensacola campus President Dr. Kim Coolidge provided wisdom regarding the Virginia College education experience, and offered thought-provoking platitudes to the attentive group.
Education Corporation of America is a leader in the post-secondary career school market with current enrollment of over 19,000 students. The ECA website is www.ecacolleges.com/. Schools include Virginia College, founded in 1983, a private institution of higher education that offers non-degree and associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in the areas of Health and Medical, Business, Information Technology, Interior Design, Computer Design, Cosmetology, Nursing and more in sixteen different cities. Virginia College campuses are located in Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama; Jacksonville and Pensacola, Florida; Augusta and Macon, Georgia; Biloxi and Jackson, Mississippi; Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, South Carolina; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Austin, Texas. The Virginia College website is www.vc.edu/. Virginia College also offers classes worldwide via the Internet, with student services and admissions facilities in Birmingham, Alabama, and Tampa, Florida. Information about online classes at Virginia College is available at www.vconline.edu. Additionally, ECA operates Culinard, the Culinary Institute of Virginia College, with locations in Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama, and Jacksonville, Florida. The website is www.culinard.com. ECA also operates Golf Academy of America, with locations in Phoenix, Arizona; San Diego, California; Orlando, Florida; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Golf Academy website is www.golfacademy.edu.
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
While many grocery stores have been cutting back in this economy and eliminating jobs like baggers, supermarket chain Aldi is doing the exact opposite and is actually adding food service jobs in Florida.
In fact, they held a hiring event recently in Orlando to advertise and interview for jobs.
Hundreds of eager job seekers lined up for the chance to get an interview for a number of food service openings, including cashiers, baggers, and deli positions. Unfortunately the store usually only employs a small amount of people, about 15 employees per store. That, along with low-cost, generic brands and food in bulk allow them to keep costs down substantially. They stores are a big draw for both low-income and middle-income families because of their quality food and low prices.
Aldi also wants to hire store manager trainees, managers, and part and full-time cashiers.
Managers make $20 an hour, while cashiers make $20 - not a bad payday, especially for a youngster who needs a part-time job. What’s even more, part-time employers, or those who works 20 hours a week or more, will be eligible for benefits. Full-time employees are automatically offered benefits.
Aldi opened it first store in Central Florida in 2008. Despite the economy, the company has since grown to more than 35 stores across the area. Nine more stores are on the way over the next few months.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. isn’t chickening out on their new promise to consumers to farm locally grown products and have created a campaign that has lead to more food service jobs in Florida.
About 250 jobs, to be exact, will be added on the roster at the company’s facility in Live Oak.
The campaign is called “Fresh from Florida” and was derived from the pressing consumer need to have access to fresh, locally grown poultry.
The campaign was created in junction with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Beech Nut, a maker and processor of baby foods, has opened a new plant, which will create many new administrative jobs in Florida. For more information, click here.
According to Fox23News.com, every seat in the house was full for the grand opening of the new Beech Nut processing plant and headquarters in Florida.
“Today is a great day for the Mohawk Valley, the Capital Region and upstate New York,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer. “And it’s because of a four-letter word: jobs.”
At one point, the long-time Canajoharie company considered moving out of state. But with help from lawmakers, Beech Nut decided to stay in Montgomery County, heading to the nearby town of Florida.
All Canajoharie employees were offered jobs at the new plant. More than 350 accepted.
“I’ve heard good news from people saying I’ve got a new job down here and it’s wonderful,” said Canajoharie resident Esther Simpson.
“I have a lot of relatives that work there and they’re very happy they could keep their jobs,” said Canajoharie resident Sheila Hearn.
On top of those jobs, Beech Nut president Jim Schneider says the baby food manufacturer will be adding 135 new positions.
“We want to be good corporate neighbors and I think the best workforce is here in our backyard,” Schneider says.
“Manufacturing is not dead,” says Congressman Paul Tonko. “It’s alive and well if we invest appropriately.”
Right now production is already underway at the plant for the company’s glass and plastic lines. Soon, food production will make its way over. For those attending today’s event, it’s business that’s more than welcome.
“Beech Nut has been in Canajoharie more than a hundred years,” says Florida resident Chris Fernandez. “It’s nice to see them stay in Montgomery County.”
Schneider says the goal is to have all of the production moved from the Canajoharie site to the Florida plant by September.
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
While Florida’s unemployment rate remains higher than the national rate, recent stats show that the economy is actually improving with the additional of several new jobs.
According to TBNWeekly.com, Pinellas County’s unemployment rate for April is down nearly a full percentage point, according to the latest figures from the Florida Agency of Workforce Innovation.
April’s rate was 11.5 percent, compared to March when 12.4 percent of the county’s labor force was looking for a job.
In April, 51,629 of the county’s labor force of 447,989 were looking for a job. In March, 55,693 out of a labor force of 450,195 were unemployed.
While, the numbers appear to be moving in the right direction, unemployment in Pinellas remains high compared to April 2009 when the unemployment rate was 9.8 percent, and only 43,765 of 446,068 were unemployed.
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
There’s reason to celebrate in the Florida, as a new report just released states that almost 1,100 tech jobs in Florida have been created since 2008.
According to the 13th annual Cyberstates report published on Wednesday, the modest 0.4 percent gain to 292,300 high-tech jobs during a recession compared with an overall 4.1 percent loss in the state’s private work force in 2008, the most current data available.
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
People lined up by the dozens to apply for hundreds of labor jobs in Florida as a result of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Workforce Escarosa in Pensacola is offering the positions.
According to an article in USAToday.com, Brittany Bailey, business services outreach representative, said Escarosa is recruiting 300 to 500 Gulf Coast workers for a Texas-based workforce development company called Advanced Employment Solutions.
“They need the manpower immediately,” she said.
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Tags: Labor Jobs Florida, Oil Spill Florida, Oil Spill Jobs
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