The Olympian Logo

Still need a job? Hiring event set for Friday | The Olympian

×
  • E-edition
  • Home
    • Customer Service
    • About Us
    • Buy Photos and Pages
    • Contact Us
    • Plus
    • Mobile & Apps
    • Newsletters
    • Newspaper in Education
    • Subscribe
    • Subscriber Services
    • Archives

    • News
    • Business
    • Crime
    • Databases
    • Death Notices
    • Education
    • Local News
    • Military News
    • Obituaries
    • Politics & Government
    • State
    • Traffic
    • Watchdog
    • Weather
    • Opinion
    • Cartoons
    • Editorials
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Opinion Columns
    • Submit a Letter
    • Sports
    • College
    • High School
    • Mariners
    • Preps Stats
    • Seahawks
    • Sounders
    • UW Huskies
    • Politics
    • Living
    • Announcements
    • Food
    • Health & Fitness
    • Home & Garden
    • Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Arts & Culture
    • Comics
    • Puzzles & Games
    • Events Calendar
    • Horoscopes
    • Movies
    • Restaurants
    • Outdoors
    • Fishing

  • Classifieds
  • Jobs
  • Moonlighting
  • Cars
  • Homes
  • Place An Ad
  • Mobile & Apps

Local

Still need a job? Hiring event set for Friday

By Rolf Boone - Staff writer

    ORDER REPRINT →

September 16, 2014 05:07 PM

Update that necktie, iron that blouse and spellcheck your resume: a hiring event, which will feature about 30 employers, is set for Friday at South Puget Sound Community College.

The event, which will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the college’s Student Union building, is free and open to all job seekers.

As many as 30 employers could attend, and 25 were confirmed as of Tuesday, college spokeswoman Kellie Purce Braseth said.

Businesses set to attend include Costco, Home Depot, Great Wolf Lodge, Red Wind Casino, Twin Star Credit Union and some Washington state agencies.

SIGN UP

Sign Up and Save

Get six months of free digital access to The Olympian

SUBSCRIBE WITH GOOGLE

#ReadLocal

“And every employer there is hiring,” she said.

Job seekers should dress professionally and bring a hard copy of their resume as well as an electronic version, either on a smart phone or downloaded onto a thumbdrive.

Friday’s hiring event is a collaboration between SPSCC, Thurston County WorkSource and the Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council.

If you can’t make it Friday, a local company is set to have a hiring event at 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at Waterstreet Cafe in Olympia, 610 Water St. S.W.

Smart Energy Today of Olympia, which helps homeowners and businesses with energy efficiency, anticipates hiring 17 positions locally and 22 nationally, according to a news release. Positions include HR director, sales, supervisors and field technicians. For more information, go to www.smartenergytoday.net.

The Thurston County jobless rate has fallen to pre-recession levels -- it was at 5.3 percent in July -- but not everyone has a job or wants a job because the national labor participation rate in August was 62.8 percent, the lowest since 1978, U.S. Department of Labor data show.

Seasonally adjusted Washington state unemployment was 5.6 percent in July.

Statewide unemployment for August will be released Wednesday (Sept. 17), followed by county jobless rates for August on Sept. 23.

  Comments  

Videos

Tim Eyman under investigation in theft of chair from Lacey Office Depot

Downed trees, busted limbs keeps service company busy in wake of snowstorm

View More Video

Trending Stories

Woman dies after wreck on highway in Thurston County

February 17, 2019 11:20 AM

Report: Payless will close all of its shoe stores

February 17, 2019 02:01 PM

Infant girl, plus woman holding her, suffer gunshot wounds after man ‘shows off’ handgun at party

February 17, 2019 09:48 AM

Three from Thurston County win Mat Classic titles. Yelm’s Dubose, Platt go back-to-back

February 17, 2019 10:11 AM

Victims, not criminals: State’s runaway foster kids often end up in cuffs and jail

February 17, 2019 01:42 PM
Local display advertising by PaperG

Read Next

‘Uncertainty’ about whether snow is coming back to the lowlands this week, or just rain

Latest News

‘Uncertainty’ about whether snow is coming back to the lowlands this week, or just rain

By Stacia Glenn

    ORDER REPRINT →

February 18, 2019 10:20 AM

Forecasters said a storm moving in early Tuesday could bring light snow back to the Tacoma-Seattle area, but it’s too soon to know for sure.

KEEP READING

Sign Up and Save

#ReadLocal

Get six months of free digital access to The Olympian

SUBSCRIBE WITH GOOGLE

MORE LOCAL

Report: Payless will close all of its shoe stores

Local

Report: Payless will close all of its shoe stores

February 17, 2019 02:01 PM
Infant girl, plus woman holding her, suffer gunshot wounds after man ‘shows off’ handgun at party

Local

Infant girl, plus woman holding her, suffer gunshot wounds after man ‘shows off’ handgun at party

February 17, 2019 09:48 AM
Woman dies after wreck on highway in Thurston County

Local

Woman dies after wreck on highway in Thurston County

February 17, 2019 11:20 AM
Victims, not criminals: State’s runaway foster kids often end up in cuffs and jail

Politics & Government

Victims, not criminals: State’s runaway foster kids often end up in cuffs and jail

February 17, 2019 01:42 PM
Another storm, another big question: Why was power out for so long?

Local

Another storm, another big question: Why was power out for so long?

February 16, 2019 07:00 AM

Death Notices

Deaths for Feb. 16

February 16, 2019 01:46 AM
Take Us With You

Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand.

Icon for mobile apps

The Olympian App

View Newsletters

Subscriptions
  • Start a Subscription
  • Customer Service
  • eEdition
  • Contests-Promotions
  • Vacation Hold
  • Rewards
  • Pay Your Bill
Learn More
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Newsletters
  • News in Education
  • Photo Store
  • Archives
Advertising
  • Information
  • Place a Classified
  • Local Deals
  • Place an Obituary
  • Today's Circulars
  • Special Sections
Copyright
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service


Back to Story