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Igxglobal, a leading information technology integrator with world headquarters based in Rocky Hill, CT and with EMEA operations located in London, UK, have announced that they are expanding their technical resources and adding additional customer facing resources by hiring for Jobs in Connecticut.

igxglobal specializes in delivering high-performance and secure solutions through four practice areas of threat mitigation, market-leading products, professional integration services and post-support managed services With a growing presence in the New England markets, igx continues to invest in supporting their client base and new opportunities with the investment in additional subject matter experts.

Prior to joining igxglobal, Robin Brown helped design and implement it’s MPLS backbone network for the Connecticut Education Network. She was instrumental in creating a highly flexible and redundant network throughout the State of Connecticut, then interconnecting that network to other regional research and education networks through partnerships with organizations such as NEREN, NYSERNET and Internet2. Read the rest of this entry »

The Connect-Ability initiative is recognizing six companies who have made a concentrated effort to create diverse jobs in CT.

According to a press release, the State of Connecticut’s Connect-Ability initiative recognized Dee’s One Smart Cookie (Glastonbury), Green Demolitions (Norwalk), Russ McDaniel Carpentry (Old Lyme), St. Francis Hospital Food & Nutritional Program (Hartford), Target (Meriden store), and Walgreens Distribution Center (Windsor) as recipients of the fifth annual Connect-Ability Top Employer Award for their aspirations, leadership and dedication to removing barriers to hiring and promoting people with disabilities.

The Connect-Ability Top Employers received recognition for their best practices on maintaining a diverse workforce that includes people with disabilities. Some of their best practices include: developing and sustaining aggressive work programs aimed at attracting and retaining people with disabilities and including people in recovery, creating a universal design work environment, participating in on-the-job training with the state’s Bureau of Rehabilitation Services and participating in Disability Mentoring Day.
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ShopRite has opened a completely renovated store and will be adding several new retail jobs in Connecticut, company spokespeople confirm.

The new store is located at 775 Main Street South in Southbury. It occupies the space formerly owned by Shaw’s Supermarket. Connecticut has about 22 ShopRite stores total. The Southbury ShopRite is owned and operated by the Cingari family, who have been in the supermarket business since 1943, through three generations. Through their Norwalk-based company, Grade A Markets Inc., the family operates nine ShopRite stores, including seven in Fairfield County and two in New Haven County.
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For the fifth consecutive month, Connecticut added jobs to its economy, which now represents a total of 14,700 new jobs since December 2009 and a decrease in Connecticut unemployment.

Although three of the state’s 10 major industry sectors did show job gains, the majority of this increase was the result of Census jobs.

The increase brings the state’s nonfarm employment for May to 1,622,800, and the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 8.9 percent. On a seasonally adjusted basis, this represents a decrease of 8,000 jobs over the year, when nonfarm employment for May 2009 totaled 1,630,800. Read the rest of this entry »

Great news for unemployed engineers: Electric Boat, stationed in Pfizer’s New London complex, has announced they will be expanding and hiring for engineer jobs in Connecticut.

The governor of Connecticut and the president of Electric Boat gathered at the complex to announce a preliminary expansion plan to make room for EB’s engineering workforce.

Beginning in July, Electric Boat will occupy two floors in the center.
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Sonic, the chain popular for its drive-in and inexpensive food, has announced that they are hiring for a variety of fast food jobs in Connecticut.

The fast food chain plans on holding jobs fairs in Wallingford on Tuesday and Thursday. They expect a large showing due to the economy.

Sonic is hoping to fill about 100 full and part-time positions for their restaurant on Colony Rd, among others. A second Sonic is planned for Manchester, although details are scant on the location and timing of the opening.
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Private sector jobs are becoming scarce, but this was not in the case in one state, where hundreds private sector jobs in Connecticut were added. For more information, go to www.ctjobs.com.

Jobs in Connecticut have overall been increasing.

Ninety-seven of the nation’s 100 biggest markets lost private-sector jobs between April 2009 and April 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The exceptions were Honolulu, Hawaii and New Haven, Connecticut, which each added 1,200 private-sector jobs, and Charleston, South Carolina, which was unchanged over the year.
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Connecticut continued to show gradual improvement in the labor market by increasing a number of jobs in Connecticut.

According to HartfordBusiness.com, Connecticut’s slow economic recovery continued to gain some ground in April as employers added another 3,000 jobs during the month, pushing the jobless rate down slightly to 9 percent, labor authorities said Thursday.

That represents the fourth consecutive month Connecticut added jobs to its economy, the Connecticut Department of Labor said.

Connecticut unemployment was 9.2 percent in March and 8 percent in April last year. U.S. unemployment is 9.9 percent.

Connecticut since December has added 8,900 jobs, state labor authorities said.

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The House of Representatives have approved a plan to bail out the financially troubled University of Connecticut Healthcare Center, a bill that could potentially create or save hundreds of healthcare jobs in Connecticut (click here).

The new plan could improve the center’s 35-year-old John Dempsey Hospital.

According to the Hartford Courant.com, after three hours of debate that ended shortly before 9 p.m., the House voted 109-34 for the measure. There was bipartisan support, though some Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats voted against the plan after questioning whether an expensive new patient tower is needed at the hospital campus in Farmington.

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Finally some good news on the jobs front concerning the Connecticut unemployment rate.

The state’s nonfarm employment in March was 1,614,500, an increase of 3,000 jobs from the revised February 2010 figure of 1,611,500, the Connecticut Department of Labor announced today. On a seasonally adjusted basis, this is a decrease of 30,600 from the March 2009 total of 1,645,100 jobs.

“We have now seen three months of job gains in Connecticut, possibly one of the best indications we have seen to date that our economy is beginning to take a more positive turn,” noted Labor Statistics Supervisor Salvatore DiPillo. “We saw healthy gains in six of our major industry sectors, including manufacturing and construction – two areas that have suffered heavy losses as a result of the economic downturn. The gain of 3,000 new jobs parallels the growth we are seeing at the national level and gives us hope that this recession may be nearing its end.”

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