Booz Allen Hamilton has announced it will add 90 jobs to its already 530-strong offices in San Antonio, Texas, the San Antonio Business Journal reported Tuesday. Technology jobs make up the bulk of the openings, which include positions for network engineers and cybersecurity analysts for the U.S. Air Force, a health …
Read More »United Technologies to Add 35,000 Jobs; Invest $15B in R&D Through 2022
United Technologies has announced it will add 35,000 jobs and invest over $15 billion for research and development, as well as well as capital expenditures, in the United States through 2022. The company said Wednesday it also launched a new website www.utcinvestingintheusa.com aimed at highlighting UTC’s U.S. investments. These new investments are intended to …
Read More »Job Growth Jumps 222,000 in June
The U.S. economy added 222,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate held at 4.4 percent, according to a government report Friday. Job growth has averaged approximately 180,000 per month in 2017, slightly above the 187,000 mark in 2016.Wages remained stagnant, rising only a sluggish 0.2 percent. Hourly earnings on …
Read More »Amazon to Create 1,500 Full-Time Jobs at New Salt Lake City Fulfillment Center
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced Thursday that it will create 1,500 full-time hourly associate roles at its first Utah fulfillment center in Salt Lake City. “We are excited to continue growing our team with the first fulfillment center in Utah,” said Akash Chauhan, Amazon’s Vice President of North American operations. “In …
Read More »28 Year Low: Fewest Workers Receive Unemployment Since 1988
Fewer workers received unemployment benefits at the end of April than at any other time in the last 28 years, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, and when the last four weeks are taken into account, total unemployment benefit claims are at their lowest rate since 1974. . There were only 236,000 …
Read More »TechServe Alliance: 2016 IT and Engineering Employment Rises Year-Over-Year
A new study from the TechServe Alliance estimates the number of information technology and engineering jobs increased at respective year-to-year growth rates of 2.4 percent and 0.7 percent. The TechServe Alliance report published Wednesday says IT jobs have grown to 5,179,300 in December 2016 to represent an addition of 122,900 IT workers from the previous year’s final …
Read More »Deloitte: Aerospace, Defense Employment to Grow 3.2% in 2016
A Deloitte study predicts that employment in the U.S. aerospace and defense sector will increase by 3.2 percent, or approximately 39,443 workers, this year. Deloitte said Tuesday the projected A&D job growth will be due to a rebound in the defense subsector’s employment levels after a five-year downward trend as a …
Read More »AWS’ Max Peterson: Cloud Tech Demand Presents Employment, Economic Opportunities
Max Peterson, a general manager at Amazon Web Services‘ global public sector business, has said the cloud computing market could create as many as 14 million new jobs during 2015, BusinessNewsAsia reported Wednesday. “Cloud represents a huge opportunity for good jobs and economic development,” Peterson told the audience during his keynote speech …
Read More »BLS Report: US Jobless Rate Holds at 5.3% for July
A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report says that the July national unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent and about 0.9 percentage points lower than the jobless rate recorded during the same month last year. Nonfarm payrolls were up in 34 U.S. states and down in 16 states plus the District …
Read More »Raytheon’s Indianapolis Hub Expansion Seeks to Add 250 Jobs; Dave Wajsgras Comments
Raytheon expects to add as many as 250 positions through an expansion of the company’s systems modernization and sustainment facility in Indianapolis. The company said Monday it currently employs approximately 1,000 workers at the site to upgrade, engineer, install and maintain computer or weapon systems for military customers. “The work Raytheon does in …
Read More »Guest Post: Jack London on Commitment to Character as a New Year’s Resolution
(Jack London is executive chairman of the board at CACI International) Many use the start of a New Year to reflect on blessings, lessons learned and goals for the coming year. I propose that we all start the year with a new, or refreshed, commitment to good character. As we …
Read More »Tim Gregory: CGI to Expand Operations in Wales, Add Up to 620 Jobs
CGI expects to create as many as 620 new jobs through an expansion of the company’s information technology and business process service operations in Bridgend, Wales. The company has received $3.7 million in funding from the Welsh government to help the organization grow its local presence, according to an article …
Read More »Report: Contractors Add Jobs as Capital-Area Hiring Grows in April
Employment data from the Labor Department suggests the economy in the Washington area is regaining growth traction after a slowdown due in part to a harsh winter, the Washington Post reported Friday. Sarah Halzack writes that DOL statistics released Friday show that D.C., Maryland and Virginia created a total of …
Read More »Report: Private Sector Added 204K Jobs in October
The Labor Department estimates that businesses in the U.S. added about 204,000 jobs in October, the Longview, Texas News-Journal reported Saturday. Lynne Sladky writes that the department also found unemployment rose to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent but cited furloughs of federal employees during the 16-day shutdown as the likely …
Read More »Northrop Breaks Ground on Melbourne Aircraft Center
Northrop Grumman has started constructing a new manned aircraft center in Melbourne, Fla. in a move to expand development and production of its products and services, Brevard Times reported Friday. The planned 200,000-square-foot facility is being built at West NASA Boulevard and could add about 550 jobs after its scheduled …
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