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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. (more…)

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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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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Connecticut’s chief business lobby is warning that a bill aiming to restrict state contracts from going to companies that ship work outside the United States will reduce cost-effective competition and potentially cause the loss of jobs in Connecticut (click here).

According to HartfordBusiness.com, the bill, which has passed out of the labor and public employees committee, aims to keep jobs in Connecticut by restricting privatization contracts of at least $100,000 from going to a contractor that would provide services at a location outside the United States.

Companies would also be restricted from hiring subcontractors from outside the country and the bill requires state agencies to give preference when awarding a contract to goods and services originating in Connecticut.

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There has been a steady stream (or some may call it a slow trickle) of green jobs in Connecticut. For more information on green jobs in Connecticut, click here.

According to an article on TheDay.com, Zerodraft in Connecticut is hiring.

The company, which weatherizes homes to increase energy efficiency, is adding more employees to deal with an increase in business driven by federal grants.

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According to a new study released by the University of Connecticut, Connecticut jobs will continue to be eliminated, as outsourcing and government budget problems dim employment recovery prospects.

The report begins by grimly stating, there is no jobs recovery in sight. Assuming national growth trails off from the unsustainable 5.7% of the fourth quarter, Connecticut continues to lose jobs through 2011; the rate of loss simply slows from the predicted rate in the previous CCEA Outlook.

The state’s economy has undergone a critical structural change as the degree of outsourcing—whether to other states or abroad—has grown quickly for more than a decade; the result is that even strong growth in total output may not translate into rapid improvement in employment. The effect shows in a pattern of progressively slowed jobs recovery.

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Even though the state continued to lose jobs last month, the Connecticut unemployment rate declined.

During July, the state saw its unemployment rate decrease from 7.9 percent to 7.8 percent, which is lower than the national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent. Prior to July, Connecticut hadn’t seen its unemployment rate decrease since September 2008, when it went from 6.1 percent to 6 percent.

Connecticut had a total non-farm employment of 1,633,400 workers during July, according to the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 1,636,200 workers during June and a 3.9 percent decrease from last year.

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One company is helping to maintain and create jobs in CT.

Northeast Utilities recently moved its corporate headquarters to Hartford, in the process relocating 167 employees from the company’s executive offices and corporate functions. In addition, a walk-in customer care center will soon be established in the town, with hopes to improve access for Connecticut Light & Power and Yankee Gas customers.

NU’s campus in Berlin will continue to be used by company employees. It still serves as the headquarters for Connecticut Light & Power, Yankee Gas and NU Transmission. The company still has 1,800 employees in Berlin and is planning to create more in the near future.

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