As I sit back in my lounge chair this weekend and think about all that’s going on in the world today – it gives me a real sense of thankfulness that I am where I am during this Thanksgiving weekend.
Over the last few days…I’ve seen terrorists attack assorted locations in India – with well over [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 29, 2008
Thankfulness this Thanksgiving Weekend
November 25, 2008
Census Office Will Hire 3,000 Tennesseans
CHATTANOOGA (WRCB) – The U.S. Census Bureau has opened three census offices in Tennessee and plan to hire 3,000 people in Tennessee.
Offices have been opened in Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis to carry out early 2010 Census operations. The offices are looking for qualified applicants to fill jobs across the state’s 95 counties. Positions include address [...]
November 25, 2008
Census to create 5,000 temp jobs in North Carolina
The Census Bureau said Monday it will hire more than 5,000 people for temporary jobs at five offices across North Carolina.
Local census offices are in Charlotte, Asheville, Fayetteville, Greensboro and Greenville, and jobs include address listers, office clerks, recruiting assistants, crew leaders and field operation supervisors.
“The census is a constitutional mandate that’s too big for [...]
November 25, 2008
Wilderness in the Smokies resort to hire 300 soon
Layoffs may fill the news, but at least one East Tennessee company is looking to hire hundreds of people.
The Wilderness in the Smokies resort and waterpark in Sevierville is nearing completion and management is looking to hire about 300 people soon and about 200 more seasonal workers in the spring, said David McGregor, general manager. [...]
November 24, 2008
BofA “could” move jobs to Charlotte
Bank of America Corp. will likely relocate 650 jobs from the bank’s namesake skyscraper in midtown Atlanta to Charlotte unless the building gets a major renovation.
BentleyForbes Group, owner of Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, and attorneys representing the Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm raised that scenario to members of the Development Authority of [...]
November 21, 2008
Steel: Wells deal is best for Charlotte
Wachovia Corp. Chief Executive Bob Steel said Thursday that Charlotte could eventually see more jobs under Wells Fargo & Co. than Wachovia’s current 20,000 employees here, but that will depend more on industry trends than the impact of the banks’ merger.
“The industry is not adding jobs right now,” Steel said at the Charlotte Business Journal’s [...]
November 19, 2008
PBI adding jobs in Rock Hill
PBI Performance Products Inc. will spend $15 million to expand its Rock Hill manufacturing facility and add 19 jobs.
The addition will double the capacity of the plant, which is on Cherry Road, on the former Celanese site at Interstate 77.
A 15,000-square-foot addition will increase the size of the fire-resistant fiber and polymer manufacturing facility by [...]
November 12, 2008
Eastman Chemical eliminates 40 jobs
Taken from knoxvillebiz.com
The economic slowdown continues to take its toll on East Tennessee businesses.
Eastman Chemical Co. said Monday it was cutting 40 headquarters jobs, and the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported that six other area companies have or plan to slash a total of 126 jobs.
Eastman said it plans to eliminate the [...]
November 12, 2008
Crete trucking facility to create 388 jobs at speedway site
Taken from KnoxNews.com
A former speedway is on track to become the site of a maintenance center for a trucking firm that has agreed to hire 388 Tennesseans within three years after the facility is built.
Details of Crete Carrier Corp.’s plan to build off Interstate 40 on the former Atomic Speedway site were hammered out Tuesday [...]
November 8, 2008
Belle Island Village in Pigeon Forge to hire 1,000
Taken from KnoxvilleBiz.com
It’s a tough job market out there, but mimes, jugglers and hundreds of other job-seekers got some good news this week.
Belle Island Village, the new entertainment complex that’s under construction in Pigeon Forge, announced Friday that it is looking to hire more than 1,000 employees at its $114 million project, and the first [...]
