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L&C to host Targeted Job Fair June 16
L&C job fair will seek restaurant applicants
Dylan Suttles, dylan.suttles@thetelegraph.com
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GODFREY A Targeted Job Fair is planned June 16 at Lewis and Clark Community College to match students and community residents with Riverbend employers searching for servers, dishwashers, bartenders and other hospitality industry workers.
On Friday, Illinois will fully reopen from COVID-19, with occupancy limitations removed for restaurants, bars and other public venues. According to Indeed.com, job postings nationwide at food-services businesses were 25% above pre-pandemic levels at the end of May.
The L&C Career and Veteran Services has joined forces with Madison County Employment and Training and the RiverBend Growth Association to bring employers and job seekers together 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, in The Commons on the college’s Godfrey Campus.
Jobless rate still dropping
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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WOOD RIVER Unemployment rates for the Metro East showed a slight decrease between March and April, and were significantly down from the same time last year when the full impact of the coronavirus pandemic was starting to be felt.
According to the latest data from the Illinois Department of Employment Security, the April unemployment rate for the St. Louis MSA which includes Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and St. Clair counties dropped to 5.3 percent from 5.6 percent the previous month. The state rate remained at 7.1 percent, after dropping from 7.8 percent between February and March.
DCEO officials see great work in Riverbend
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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Julio Rodriguez, deputy director Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunities Office of Employment and Training, leads a virtual simulation in how to certify and recalibrate micropipettes, tools used for measuring exact amounts of liquid, in SIUE’s Alternative Digital Credentialing Program for laboratory, chemical and food science technicians. DCEO officials conducted a two-day tour of the Metro East last week, spending most of Friday in Madison County. Show MoreShow Less
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Robert Dixon, a faculty member in SIUE’s Department of Chemistry, left, shows off one of the labs to Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunities deputy directors Julio Rodriguez and Jonathan McGee Friday as part of a two-day tour of the Metro East last week. At SIUE they were looking at a training program for laboratory, chemical and food science technicians.