By: Kristen Weaver
OKLAHOMA -
Although businesses are struggling to find enough works, nearly 100,000 Oklahomans are getting unemployment benefits each week.
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission is hosting large-scale job fairs all over the state to get people back in the workforce.
OESC said hundreds of employers will be at these job fairs because they re in desperate need for new recruits. It s an employee market right now, the employees have the upper hand,” said Nicole Fergerson, Business Development Manager at Tulsa s Abundant Solutions.
It s a staffing agency that connects employers and applicants and makes sure employees are a good fit for companies.
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More than 33,000 Oklahomans remain unemployed, and some business owners are scrambling to hire back employees lost during the pandemic.
For both the unemployed and scrambling employer, several career fairs scheduled for next month around the state could help.
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission announced seven days of in-person job fairs in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Lawton, Enid and McAlester. The agency will also hold a virtual job fair from May 5-28. © CHRIS LANDSBERGER, THE OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES People receive their first in line slips to return on July 1 as hundreds of people wait in line during the first day of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission unemployment filing event at the Reed Center in Midwest City, Okla. The OESC is hosting the four-day event to process as many claims for those that have been unempl
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