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Charlotte was the eighth-highest city for job openings in 2010, job-search website CareerBliss said today. A CareerBliss study that analyzed the number of posted jobs in metro areas found that job availability in the Charlotte area is outranking larger cities, such as Dallas, ...

Edmund Walker was furious. Last week he had four job openings on his roster to fill and started making calls to potential workers. One after another, they declined the opportunities. “These are the same people who had been begging for ...

The staff at Charlotte-based general contracting firm A.M. King has resorted to cold-calling potential clients in an effort to generate business. The practice has been working for the small company, said Tiffani Shoop, marketing coordinator for A.M. King, which handles ...

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Celgard, a Charlotte company that manufactures components for lithium batteries, will open a new 150,000-square-foot plant in Concord next year and add more than 200 jobs. Such announcements are welcome news in the Charlotte area after the past few years ...

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Arlington, Va.-based BAE Systems will open a more than $3 million service center in Charlotte, creating 176 jobs over the next three years, Gov. Beverly Purdue said Thursday. A site for the center has not been announced, but it is ...

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Cincinnati-based Cintas Corp. said it has opened a new document-shredding facility in Charlotte. The 5,000-square-foot facility at 200 Forsyth Hall Drive creates 20 jobs in Charlotte, the company said. Cintas, which is publicly traded, said the facility provides businesses with secure mobile ...

Charlotte-area unemployment could rise before the end of the year, the Charlotte Regional Partnership said Wednesday. In a report, the CRP said the unemployment rate for the Charlotte region continued its downward trend in October, falling to 10.6 percent from 11 percent in ...

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Katie Simon walked around uptown Charlotte Tuesday, having just finished a job interview. For the 30-year-old, the Queen City seemed like a place she could call home. “I’m really hoping this works out for me,” said Simon, who lives in ...

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As if finding a job wasn’t hard enough in this economy, a report released this week by New York-based online job search engine Juju.com ranks Charlotte 16th in job-search difficulty. Washington, D.C., was ranked the least difficult place to find ...

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Mecklenburg County’s unemployment rate dropped from 9.9 percent in September to 9.8 percent in October, according to a report released today by the state’s Employment Security Commission. It was one of 66 North Carolina counties where unemployment rates dropped. Unemployment rates increased ...