100 jobs are coming to Southwest Virginia.
DIIRECTV and its call center partner Convergys will begin hiring 100 qualified 
individuals from Southwest Virginia right away. Training will take place in April, and the new remote agents will begin taking calls in May.
A job fair will be held April 6 at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on April 7 at Bluefield State from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Anyone interested in applying for these positions should attend one of these job fairs. Additionally, interested candidates can contact their nearest Virginia Employment Commission office. Visit http://www.vec.virginia.gov for further details. Interested individuals may also contact Convergys, DIRECTV’s call center partner, at http://careers.convergysworkathome.com.
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How about Kingsport doing a job fair? Do we have any political officials willing to step forward and organize one?
From groundskeepers to singers and dancers, the Ghost Town in the Sky theme park is in need of about 200 extra employees and is holding a job fair Saturday for those interested.
The job fair will be 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the theme park’s welcome center on Soco Road at Fie Top Road in Maggie Valley, N.C. Ghost Town will be hiring for positions in maintenance, security, retail, grounds/landscaping, transportation, food service and ride operation for the upcoming season.
Read more via Ghost Town holds job fair Saturday : Business : Knoxville News Sentinel.
Two job fairs are on the horizon, one this weekend hosted by a West Knoxville church, and the other in about a month, organized by the Office on Aging and focused on jobs for seniors.
Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, 9132 Kingston Pike at Cedar Bluff Road, is hosting a Community Career Fair from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday at the church’s Family Life Center. About 20 companies plan to participate, including Thermocopy, Clayton Homes, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green Mountain Coffee, the U.S. Census Bureau and others.
Read more via Church, Office on Aging plan job fairs : Business : Knoxville News Sentinel.
Job fairs are getting more competitive. Recent events across the nation drew thousands of people and one fair was so packed organizers had to turn people away.
In New Hampshire, organizers had expected 5,000 people to show up at the Project Economy Job Fair. Twice that many showed up in the first two hours.
Read more via Job fairs filling to capacity – CNN.com.
A higher-than-expected turnout at a New Hampshire job fair has forced organizers to turn away throngs of job seekers.
More than 10,000 people showed up Thursday for the event at Southern New Hampshire University’s athletic complex in Manchester. The job fair had been heavily promoted on television, but organizers expected just 5,000 participants.
Read more via Crowd Of 10,000 Overwhelms N.H. Job Fair – CBS News.
The doors aren’t even open at WorkSource Portland Metro East, and yet a line is already starting to form outside the squat tan office building.
It’s just before 8 a.m., and people are anxious to start looking for work.
By 9 a.m., the publicly funded job and retraining center will be overflowing with clients. People who once held jobs as chefs, truck drivers, industrial buyers, retirement home managers and car dealers will pass through the doors. Some will have master’s degrees and others won’t have graduated from high school; none will have had any luck — yet — finding a job in this hard economy.
Read more via Job center struggles with massive need – Reinventing America- msnbc.com.
This is not the first job fair for Knoxville, Tennessee. Are there any elected officials that wants to step up to the plate and take a leadership role in organizing a job fair for Kingsport?
KNOXVILLE — The Heart of Knoxville Career and Resource Center will host a free job fair and workshops this month to help local job seekers.
The events, which will be held at the Career Center on the Magnolia Avenue Campus of Pellissippi State Technical Community College, will be bilingual and is expected to draw representatives from various industries.
Pre-fair workshops will include “Resume/Cover Letter” at 10 a.m. on April 7 and 14; “Resume/How to Attend a Job Fair” at 6 p.m. on April 8 (presented in English and in Spanish by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of East Tennessee); “Interviewing for Success” (with taped mock interviews), from 9 a.m. to noon on April 14.
The 2009 Spring Job Fair/Mas Trabajos, which is a combined effort of the Heart of Knoxville, Pellissippi State and the Hispanic Chamber, will be held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on April 16.
Read more via Heart of Knoxville center hosts job fair : Business : Knoxville News Sentinel.
Job fairs have gotten a lot of attention lately and I wonder if local officials in the Tri-Cities, TN area will step up to help organize a job fair? Kingsport’s unemployment rate is 10.5 percent and is expected to go much higher.
A crowd of about 10,000 came to Dodger Stadium over the weekend, but they weren’t there for a baseball game.
While the Dodgers were in Arizona for spring training, more than 80 employers set up employment booths in the parking lot just beyond the center field fence. To those who turned out Saturday, finding a job would be a home run.
Companies taking part included Coca-Cola, Lowe’s and Union Bank. And government agencies including the FBI, the Social Security Administration and the Army Corps of Engineers were there, too.
All had one thing in common: They were hiring.
Read more via 10,000 look to make winning play at Dodger Stadium job fair – CNN.com.
