Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is hiring 100 call center operators for its Springfield branch in Lane County. This is good news for the people of Lane County who currently have 17,000 people without jobs and who will also experience the loss of 450 jobs at the closing of their Coburg Factory which was announced earlier [...]
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Thanks to efforts by NASA and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 40 students have had the chance to do something good for the environment this summer. They have been working on various innovative projects at the Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices in a summer college challenge. U.S. EPA’s Regional Administrator, Jared Blumenfield, states, [...]
The cruise industry is still retaining its popularity despite the recession, and many people are choosing shorter weekend cruises to get away from it all and to relax. Working on a cruise ship is one of the best jobs that you could have for a number of reasons. Firstly there is the chance to travel [...]
U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement and Regulation (BOEMRE) has given the Shell Oil Company conditional approval to begin drilling exploration oil wells in the Beaufort Sea as of July 2012. This approval has been given with the condition that Shell obtains all the necessary legal permits from relevant environmental agencies upon a full [...]
Texas is about to get a huge boost in the gaming market as one of the largest gaming companies, EA (Electronic Arts) Games, sets up a new office in the Austin area, bring with it around 300 video game jobs. 150 of these jobs will be permanent, and the other 150 will be contract based. [...]
According to the latest NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Status of U.S. Fisheries Report, the Alaska fishing industry is on its way to being rebuilt. Senator Mark Begich, the Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard chairman, was pleased with the findings and praised the, today praised the Alaskan fishing industry [...]
Mystery shopping has become one of the ideal forms of employment for those who have been laid off during the past few years and because of the high unemployment rates, scammers are taking advantage of this fact to lure mystery shoppers into a false job which ends up costing them. Secret shopping scams are not [...]
The oil and gas industry in Texas is increasing to pre-recession highs with over 224,200 oil exploration and oil production jobs in the area. This makes the oil and gas employment rate the highest it has been in Texas since October 2008, when it had its last oil industry peak, according to Karr Ingham, the [...]
