Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 | 9:17 a.m.
Hi, (not you?) | Member Center | Sign Out
Powered by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Home
- > Business
- > Employment
Employment
Business owners take a wait and see attitude with shutdown
The government shutdown hasn’t shaken the confidence of Miles Whitlock in the American consumer. For now, people will still go out and spend money, he said, and banks will lend money, too. But he doesn’t think their patience is infinite. The longer the shutdown lasts, the more likely the economy ...
Web strategy pays off for Athens retailer
From her cubicle at a credit card company in Columbus, Ga., Diana Harbour saw a flat trajectory for her life ahead. It terrified her.Eight hours a day, the English lit major wrote bland paragraphs of boilerplate to be printed on credit card statements. She also plotted her dream.Eight years later ...
Workers exposed to safety hazards at LaGrange auto parts factory
The sparks would burn through Kimberly Scandrick’s cotton work shirts, leaving pinprick-sized marks on her arms and chest. Freckles, she and a co-worker at Sewon America called them, laughing uneasily at the scars left by the robotic welder. Still, in the back of her mind, Scandrick worried that the sparks ...
Job market wide open for dental hygienists
If you want a health care career that pays well, is in demand and offers flexible scheduling, dental hygiene may give you plenty to smile about. According to the Georgia Department of Labor, dental hygienist employment is projected to grow in Georgia by 2,240 jobs (about 35 percent) from 2010 ...
Co-op students earn while they learn
A chance encounter at a career fair changed the way Amir Maymay mapped out his college experience. That was the first time the Georgia Tech senior learned about co-op programs, which allow students to leave the classroom for a summer or a semester to work full time in their chosen ...
Second act: Retired cop goes back to school
Bruce Bochicchio has set his sights on getting an education and giving himself and his children better options. The road has not been easy for the 47-year-old retired police officer and father of six. There have been more setbacks and obstacles than he cares to relate in the last eight ...
Students learn how to help others resolve differences
Conflict management, in many ways, could be described as the eternal quest to facilitate “Kumbaya” moments, when people put aside their many differences to work and live together in harmony and mutual respect. Unfortunately, life around any campfire is complicated. Conflict appears at home, in schools and in businesses. The ...
Amazon hiring 70,000 for holidays
Amazon.com plans to hire more than 70,000 full-time workers to beef up for the busiest sales season of the year. That's a 40 percent increase over last year. Amazon vice president Dave Clark said, "So far this year, we have converted more than 7,000 temporary employees in the U.S. into ...
Looking for a village to raise start-up tech firms
It may take a village to help a start-up company soar. So say some entrepreneurs, asserting that young companies grow faster and better in a community of peers than they do on their own. As Atlanta struggles to pull away from hard economic times, they say, it needs to nurture ...
Telecommuting continues to rise
Two years ago, Candace Ragsdale’s job changed in a way that seemed almost too good to be true. She suddenly had more money, more time — and less stress. Yet her job as a customer service representative with Chico’s clothing company was exactly the same. The only thing that changed ...
© 2013 Cox Media Group. By using this website,
you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices
.
You're Almost Done!
Select a display name and password
{* #socialRegistrationForm *} {* socialRegistration_displayName *} {* socialRegistration_emailAddress *} {* traditionalRegistration_password *} {* traditionalRegistration_passwordConfirm *}Tell us about yourself
{* registration_firstName *} {* registration_lastName *} {* registration_postalZip *} {* registration_birthday *} {* registration_gender *} {* agreeToTerms *}