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October 14, 2015
TechCrunch
LearnUp, A Startup Closing The Skills Gap For Entry-Level Job Seekers, Raises $8M From NEA, Shasta

In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly what was holding job seekers back amid the recession. One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills […]

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October 2, 2015
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Current Employment Statistics Highlights

In September, employment in leisure and hospitality continued to trend up (+35,000), in line with its prior 12-month average monthly gain. Within leisure and hospitality, food services and drinking places employment edged up in September (+21,000), and the industry has added 349,000 jobs in the last 12 months. (Page 15)

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September 21, 2015
Fortune
Here’s how many workers Walmart is hiring this holiday

Starting pay is higher this season than last. Walmart on Thursday released its plans for hiring seasonal workers, saying it expects to hire 60,000 temporary employees for the holidays this year. Walmart said in a press release that it will have more associates in its stores working more hours this season, and they will “focus […]

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August 31, 2015
Patch
Chipotle Looking To Hire 4,000 Employees With ‘National Career Day’

Like making burritos and need a job? You’re in luck. Wednesday, September 9, Chipotle will try to hire 4,000 new employees across the country with what the company is calling “National Career Day.” Each U.S. location will interview up to 60 people between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. with the goal of hiring 4,000 new […]

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August 12, 2015
PR Newswire
Restaurants: Serving Up Opportunity for America’s Young People

As summer winds down and students head back to school, the National Restaurant Association is highlighting the restaurant industry’s role providing job opportunities to millions of young people across the country.

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August 3, 2015
Lehigh Valley Live
Free job training with a guaranteed interview being offered in Allentown

Lehigh Carbon Community College is offering free hospitality training for Allentown residents that also guarantees them job interviews at several new Center City restaurants.

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July 29, 2015
The Times Herald
Youthful success in hotel industry attributes rise to Norristown’s diversity

In August 2013, Peter Wilson made one of the most difficult decisions of his life: He dropped out of East Stroudsburg University, where he had a football scholarship, to work for Extended Stay America. Wilson was then promoted in October 2014 and at 20 years old became the company’s youngest assistant hotel manager in the […]

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July 27, 2015
Deseret News
Which U.S. cities are the best for upward mobility? Here’s the top one in each state

From tech billionaires who strike it rich in Silicon Valley to farm girls who make it big on Broadway, we hear a lot about the American Dream. But where is it really the most likely that Americans will climb their way up the income ladder? NerdWallet recently used data from The Equality of Opportunity Project […]

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July 20, 2015
Politico
Florida employment tracker: June 2015

Welcome to the Florida monthly employment tracker. Every month, we’ll report on Florida’s jobs and employment statistics. Florida added 7,000 non-farm jobs in June, an increase of 0.1 percent from May, according to preliminary data released Friday by the state Department of Economic Opportunity. The state added 12,200 private sector jobs, but lost 5,200 public […]

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July 15, 2015
ABC
OzHarvest hospitality course helps disadvantaged youth get a leg up in the industry

A group of disadvantaged young people from across Sydney have successfully completed a hospitality course aimed at getting them employment. Food rescue charity OzHarvest runs Nourish, a six-month program where participants learn different aspects of the hospitality industry, including cooking and serving customers. Nourish student 26-year-old Mozelle Moses came to the course after struggling with […]

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