Alaska has always had a competitive job market, but in July the unemployment rate fell to the lowest percentage at 7.7 which is also far below the national average. According to economist Neal Fried, this rate is largely due to Alaska’s seasonal jobs and small economy. The unemployment rate is usually averaged at 9.5 percent for July. The great news for Alaska  job seekers is that you are pretty much guaranteed to find work when you come to Alaska, especially in the fishing industry where crew are highly sought after for the large fishing seasons, namely in Salmon, Crab, and others. July and August are traditionally the seasons for the Salmon fisheries to start full production, and King Crab in the Aleutian Islands. This gives job seekers a brilliant opportunity to get in on the high pa...

The oil sands project is about to get a boost as a new pipeline, the Keystone XL Pipeline, awaits approval for transporting heavy crude oil at Shell Albian Sands near Fort McMurray. This will mean a huge amount of new gas jobs for the United States. The oil sands project has been running for many years now, providing the country with plenty of oil jobs and gas jobs. The new pipeline will help to alleviate some of the pressure from the project by moving the heavy crude oil from the Canadian tarsands, south to the Gulf of Mexico where there are refineries being planned. This pipeline spans 9600 km, but could be stopped by various groups. On the one side of the equation, those hungry for oil jobs and gas jobs are eager for the pipeline to be built, but environmentalists on the other side are ...

If you ask any basketball coach, football coach, or other athletic head, they will tell you that the trick to a successful team is commitment and dedication, not just during the sport’s season, but all year round. If you hope to get better at a certain sport, then you should be training even when you do not have to be. This is one thing that the Glen Ridge High basketball team along with 24 other schools have held very close as they took part in a Newark Summer Academy during July. These teams have all decided to stay fit and keep their eye on the prize coming into the 2010/2011 basketball season. There is also a Farleigh Dickinson University-Teaneck’s Team Camp this week held, which the Ridger’s head Liam Carr wants the squad to participate in. It is true that most of these high sch...

On the 13th August 2010, there will be a job fair held in New Paltz where a group of Solar Energy Companies will be looking to fill about 100 high tech jobs. The Solar Energy Consortium will be held at the Terrace Restaurant at the New Paltz University Campus, where together with the Labor Department, and various employment offices, the 12 companies taking part will be screening the best candidates for the jobs and offering training. Specific green jobs are going to be offered, so if you want to apply, you will have to register with your closest Office of Employment and Training as well as the Department of Labor before the fair. The companies that you will get the chance to work for include: Employers include Axio Power, Fala Technologies, IBM, Farm To Table Co-packers, Precision Flow Tec...

The newest edition to the Cunard fleet, the Queen Elizabeth, is on track for its maiden voyage in October. Designed with the distinct art deco feel of the 30’s and 40’s, the Queen Elizabeth is beginning to take shape inside, where the Britannia dining room’s staircase and the Kew Garden’s inspired garden lounge are almost complete. The games deck is spacious and will provide the more traditional pastimes of croquet, bowls, and even paddle tennis. Following along the lines of all Cunard’s ships, the Queen Elizabeth will also have its own Golden Lion authentic English style pub. Even though this ship will be different from the other ships in its fleet, Cunard felt that keeping the popular pub was a must for all their loyal passengers. The rooms range from inside cabin and ocean vie...

JFK International Airport will be getting a makeover in its Delta Airlines Terminals, it was announced by Delta Airlines and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday. They plan to tear down the old Pan American WorldPort and spend $1.2 Billion to make the carrier’s home at JFK more effective, efficient, and able to see to more passengers, also offering about 6400 more airline and airport jobs in the process. Currently Delta handles nearly a quarter of the annual traffic coming through JFK, equating to nearly 46 billion passengers. The upgrades will increase this capacity even further and improve customer experience. Business travelers are the main focus of Delta Airlines, as these are the people who spend the most per mile. Delta already mentioned at the beginning of the...

The workers who have been tirelessly working on the Aquatics Center for the 2012 London Olympic Games gathered to mark the countdown of the 2 year mark on the 27th July, when the opening ceremony will take place. Tickets are going on sale next year, but you can already register to purchase them. 8 million tickets have been printed for the Games, including the Opening and Closing Ceremony, with a further 2 million tickets set aside for the Paralympics. The Opening Ceremony will take place at the East London Olympic Park and the hunt is now on for the 70 thousand volunteers who want to work at this historic event. If you want to get into a sports career, then this might be the ideal platform for you to get experience at a sports stadium. You can volunteer to be a ticket seller, to clean the ...

There are many jobs that in huge demand nowadays, especially in the medical profession. Nurses, dentists, oral hygienists, and doctors are all jobs that will never be cut, as people are always in need of healthcare. To become doctor is a dream that many have from when they are young, and as they get older, most of them lose this desire or think that they will never be able to get into the profession. Well, thanks to 100K Job Finder, you will get all the details about how to become a doctor so that you can start earning within the 6 figures. Surgical doctors earn a 100K with other 100K medical jobs including an anesthesiologist, OB-GYN, and pediatrician. More specialized forms of medicine like Orthodontics, and Prosthetics will also see you earning over 100 thousand. The trick to getting a ...

At a time when airlines are still cutting back, Virgin America is planning to expand its fleet from 28 to 90 by the year 2016 allowing more airline jobs to be created. According to the announcement made on the 22nd July, the company has ordered 40 new Airbus A320 aircraft which are going to be delivered in groups of 10 per year from 2013 to 2016 with 20 additional aircraft possibly joining the fleet in 2017 and 2018. The CEO and President of Virgin America, David Cush, and Chief Operating Officer of Airbus, John Leahy both made the announcement at the Farnborough International Airshow of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which stated that Virgin America was growing substantially. Cush stated, “This MOU reflects confidence in our financial performance, business model and unique ...

According to Oil and Gas UK, there have been new oil fields discovered in the once thought to be depleted North Sea. These fields have sparked hope for many Oil companies in the UK, specifically those involved in the production of oil rigs. There are about 70 new oil fields that Jim Masterton of McNulty Offshore plans to operate, but he warns that other UK companies need to jump on the oil boom while they can and cash in on the £6 Billion that will be put into the oil boom off the coast of Scotland. McNulty Offshore employs over 500 people, but says that other British fabrication companies will have to change the way they do things in order to take full advantage. There will be plenty of oil rig jobs, and oil rig fabrication jobs available if they get this right. According to Masterton, m...