Portland Construction Jobs through Stadium Renovations
The move of a local soccer team to the major league will help create Portland construction jobs.
The City of Portland recently announced that it has reached a final agreement with Peregrine Power, LLC to renovate PGE Park and upgrade the Portland Timbers to a Major League Soccer franchise. That move will help create local jobs in the construction industry and continuing revenue, visitors and vital spending.
"I'm confident that this agreement will serve Portlanders now and for years to come," Mayor Sam Adams said. "We will put construction workers back to work right away, and in the long‐term, MLS represents a smart investment in Portland's future success. Building on the Northwest's long‐standing soccer heritage, we can bring Portlanders together around another great sports team."
Oregon Finance Jobs
Despite the economic recession and all the trouble the finance industry has faced as of late, Oregon finance jobs still have a lot to offer.
During 2008, about $4.5 billion was paid to employees in Oregon's financial activities industry, which currently employs more than 88,000 workers, making up 5.2 percent of the state's overall employment.
According to the Oregon Employment Department, the state's financial activities industry includes:
- Credit intermediation and related activities - 28,760 employees, average yearly salary of $50,045
- Insurance carriers and related activities - 26,488 employees, average yearly salary of $58,621
- Real estate - 20,335 employees, average yearly salary of $32,968
- Rental and leasing services - 7,196 employees, average yearly salary of $27,693
- Securities, commodity contracts and investments - 4,864 employees, average yearly salary of $116,619
- Funds, trusts and other financial vehicles and monetary authorities - 613 employees, average yearly salary of $52,347
- Lessors of non-financial intangible assets - 335 employees, average yearly salary of $60,122
Staffing Software Company Signs 54 New Clients
One popular staffing software company added a slew of new clients last year. Visit http://pcrecruiter.net/home.htm to learn more about staffing software.
TempWorks, a company that provides financing and staffing software, recently announced that it created new relationships with 54 temporary staffing businesses during 2009. The company increased market-share by focusing its development energy on products that allow customers to increase market share, reduce overhead and improve profitability.
One of the company's most popular applications is the TempWorks Time-Card Linker, which enables staffing firms to display a digital image of scanned time cards with their corresponding transactions. This eliminates the need for the customer to collate paper time cards with printed invoices and saves about one man-hour per $10,000 of weekly billings.
RPO Company Partners with Australian Military
One of the biggest RPO (Click here) companies has secured the biggest recruitment outsourcing program in the world.
Manpower Inc recently announced that it has secured a $200 million contract to run the Australian military's recruiting program. Expanding on an earlier deal, the new contract will significantly increase Manpower's recruitment process outsourcing and its Australia operations.
The program for the Australian Defence Force is expected to begin in February and last 27 months. Manpower will provide the Australian military with recruitment functions, including everything from marketing and promotion to candidate screening and hiring.