Boston’s business leaders are trying to keep talented students in Boston by getting them good internships. One student turned down a job offer from Google.
Massachusetts fares well in factory jobs study
- Factory jobs pay well in Greater Boston, although the sector represents only 7.3 percent of the workforce, a study found.
Mass. jobless rate falls to 6.5 percent
- The state added 8,700 jobs in March as the unemployment rate fell to 6.5 percent, well below the national rate of 8.2 percent.
Needham firm finds success with older workers
- Nearly half the employees who produce, package, and ship orders at Vita Needle are over 65, with a median age of 73.
Boston’s future jobs may be in cloud
The rise of cloud computing services - running software and storing files online - is expected to create 20,000 jobs in the Boston area by 2015, according to a report.
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Putting college degrees to work
- As many as 120,000 job openings are going unfilled in this state because employers can’t find qualified applicants. Jon Marcus investigates what higher education has done wrong, and what it’s now doing to make things right.
Massachusetts could lose 50,000 jobs in decade
- Federal budget cuts could cost the state thousands of jobs and “strike at the very heart” of the state’s innovation economy, an analysis shows.
Job openings jump to near a 3-year high
- WASHINGTON - The number of available jobs in the United States jumped in December to near a three-year high, supporting other data that show a brighter outlook for hiring.
UMass hospital system to shed up to 900 jobs
- UMass Memorial Health Care, which is the largest employer in Central Massachusetts, will reduce its workforce through a combination of layoffs and selling divisions that provide health services.
Monster to cut 400 jobs
- The online recruitment service, which has offices in Maynard and Cambridge, said less than one hundred positions will be eliminated in the state.
