Mountain Area Works Highlights
- Asheville metro unemployment rate June 2022 at 3.4%, lowest in NC, #1 in state for increase in jobs since June 2021
- Land of Sky's P20 Council strives to help WNC workforce keep up with demand
- McKinsey & Company: The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?
- Asheville City Schools turns to outsourcing to fill some staffing needs
- Pisgah Labs To Invest $55 Million, Add 57 Jobs In Transylvania County
- Calling In Sick or Going On Vacation, Workers Aren't Showing Up
- Job Switchers Are Earning Lot More Than Those Who Stay
- Five Strategies for filling talent gaps with "missing workers"
- Work/Life-Balance Job Fair - almost 100 employers registered deadline is Friday!
- NC Business Pulse Survey Results
- CNBC ranks North Carolina #1 for business
- This Cult-Favorite Pottery Brand Was Founded by the Great-Grandson of Henri Matisse. Now, Its Factory Is an Experiment in Equitable Labor Practices
- Guided Compass Mountain Area Workforce Development Board Online Portal
- Employers Post Your Work-Based Learning Opportunities on The Navigator
- NCWorks Career Center Asheville workshops August and September 2022
- NC unemployment rate now 3.4% - but job seekers keep this in mind
- 289 individuals filed an unemployment claim in our region for June 2022
- NCWorks: Work on What's Next
- Mountain Area Careers
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Unemployment rate in Mountain Area region 3.4% as of June 2022. As of June 2022, 11,343 more people working compared to June 2021. 1,650 less people working compared to May 2022.
7,591 unemployed individuals in June 2022, 6,792 unemployed individuals in May 2022, 6,198 unemployed individuals in April 2022, 6,347 unemployed individuals in March 2022, 6,603 unemployed individuals in February 2022 compared to 6,669 in January 2022, compared to 5,584 in December 2021 compared to 6,038 in November 2021 compared to 6,547 in October 2021 6,917 in September 2021.
Total Labor Force 222,090.
Total Employed Labor Force 214,449.
Our region has completely recovered the labor force compared to prepandemic. Labor force before the pandemic was 219,952. We are 2,138 workers above the labor force prior to the pandemic. Our region is also above by 1,103 jobs of the numbers of individuals employed prior 213,346 to the pandemic.
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Asheville metro unemployment rate at 3.4%, lowest of any NC metro |
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Asheville metro now (as of May 2022) the lowest unemployment of any NC metro at 3.4%. This rate is 1.5% points lower than the metro unemployment rate of 4.9% of one year ago.
Buncombe 3.3%
Haywood 3.5%
Henderson 3.5%
Madison 3.8%
Transylvania 3.7%
Compared to May 2021, the Asheville metro added 8,700 jobs.
Year over Year job growth by metro:
- Greenville 0.0%
- New Bern -0.9%
- Rocky Mount -1.1%
- Goldsboro -1.5%
- Winston-Salem -1.7%
- Burlington -1.9%
- Durham/Chapel Hill -2.5%
- Fayetteville -2.9%
- Jacksonville -3.0%
- Greensboro/High Point -3.6%
- Hickory/Lenoir/Morganton -3.7%
- Wilmington -3.8%
- Raleigh -3.9%
- Asheville -4.2%
- Charlotte/Concord/Gastonia -4.5%
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Mountain Area WDB Job Openings NCWorks.gov |
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Asheville MSA Industry Jobs Compared to One Year Ago |
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Equipping the labor force for tomorrow |
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Equipping the labor force for tomorrow
During a western regional meeting conducted jointly by MyFutureNC and N.C. State University’s Institute for Emerging Issues, leaders across all sectors discussed the challenges and opportunities to maintaining the state’s competitive environment.
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www.biltmorebeacon.com
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Land of Sky's P20 Council strives to help WNC workforce keep up with demand |
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P20 Council strives to help WNC workforce keep up w/ demand
Some local leaders are working to make sure Western North Carolina's workforce keeps up with the increasing demand.
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wlos.com
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McKinsey & Company: The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools? |
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Are you searching the right talent pools?
It's the quitting trend that just won't quit. People are switching jobs and industries, moving from traditional to nontraditional roles, retiring early, or starting their own businesses.
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www.mckinsey.com
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Asheville City Schools turns to outsourcing to fill some positions |
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AVL City Schools turns to outsourcing to fill some positions
Asheville City Schools will outsource some positions for the upcoming school year to deal with ongoing staffing shortages plaguing many industries.
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wlos.com
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Pharma Company to Invest $55 Million in Transylvania County |
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More than 50 new jobs coming to Transylvania County
More than 50 new jobs are on the way to transylvania county. "Pisgah laboratories" is expanding its manufacturing facility.
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wlos.com
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Pharma Company to Invest $55 Million in Transylvania County
Pisgah Laboratories, Inc., a pharmaceutical manufacturer, will add 57 new jobs in Transylvania County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The company will invest $55 million to expand its manufacturing product line.
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www.nccommerce.com
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Pisgah Labs to Add 57 Jobs Paying Avg Annual Salary $60,088
The new positions include analysts, technicians, supervisors, and managers, which have an average annual salary of $60,088. Transylvania County’s overall average annual wage is $39,028.
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edpnc.com
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Calling In Sick or Going on Vacation, Workers Aren't Showing Up |
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Calling In Sick or Going on Vacation, Workers Not Showing Up
Some companies report difficulty keeping operations going due to illness and vacations, saying that maintaining workforces is tougher than at any previous time during the pandemic.
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www.wsj.com
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Job Switchers Are Earning a Lot More Than Those Who Stay |
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Job Switchers Are Earning a Lot More Than Those Who Stay
It often pays to switch jobs, and now is one of the best times to do it. The pay difference between those who stay and those who changed jobs is growing, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
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www.wsj.com
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Five Strategies for filling talent gaps with "missing workers" |
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No Workers to Waste
Employers are facing one of the tightest labor markets in recent decades-tighter than even before the pandemic . . . Yet there are enough "missing workers"-those who are out of the labor force but want a job - to fill all our open positions . ..
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lightcast.io
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Work/Life-Balance Job Fair - almost 100 employers registered - deadline is Friday! |
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NC Business Pulse Survey Results |
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The 5 Most Important Things We Learned from NC Businesses
Following the sudden and unprecedented shock caused by the pandemic in the Spring of 2020, a variety of “real time” indicators were created to measure rapidly changing economic conditions.
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www.nccommerce.com
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CNBC ranks North Carolina #1 for business |
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North Carolina is America's Top State for Business,...
North Carolina has finished in the top ten 13 out of the last 14 years, and now it’s finally reached the top.
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www.cnbc.com
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This Cult-Favorite Pottery Brand Was Founded by the Great-Grandson of Henri Matisse. Now, Its Factory Is an Experiment in Equitable Labor Practices |
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Its Factory Is an Experiment in Equitable Labor Practices
In Asheville, North Carolina. East Fork makes pretty, durable dinnerware. But its progressive culture and policies have made it a regional leader in manufacturing. Here's what it's like to work there.
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www.entrepreneur.com
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Guided Compass Mountain Area Workforce Development Board Online Portal |
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Guided Compass
Mountain Area Workforce Development Board has partnered with Guided Compass to provide career development and work opportunities in the Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania counties.
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www.guidedcompass.com
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Guided Compass
Post opportunities, design your ideal candidate, and get screened, referred candidates.
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guidedcompass.com
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Employers Post Your Work-Based Learning Opportunities on The Navigator |
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NC's WORK-BASED LEARNING (WBL) NAVIGATOR
The Navigator is a free, first-of-its-kind, tool designed to connect classroom learning to career learning. Through this platform employers post WBL opportunities like job shadowing and internships.
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wblnavigator.org
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NCWorks Career Center Asheville workshops August and September 2022 |
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NC unemployment rate now 3.4% - but job seekers, keep this in mind, |
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NC unemployment 3.4% but job seekers, keep this in mind
The latest labor market data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce shows that the state’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in June 2022 compared to May 2022.
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wraltechwire.com
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289 people filed for unemployment benefits in our region June 2022 |
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Buncombe: 214
Henderson: 59
Madison: 8
Transylvania: 8
TOTAL: 289
Unemployment Claims by Sector in our Region
Leisure & Hospitality 43 (14.9%)
Trade Transportation & Utilities 50 (17.3%)
Unclassified/Unknown 27 (9.3%)
Educational & Health Services 58 (20.1%)
Manufacturing 26 (9.0%)
Other Services 9 (3.1%)
Professional & Business Services 45 (15.6%)
Construction 12 (4.2%)
Financial Activities 10 (3.5%)
Information (Not disclosed)
Public Administration (Not disclosed)
Natural Resources & Mining 0 (0.0%)
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NC Jobs | Mountain Area Careers | Western North Carolina
Create Your Future in the Mountains of Western North Carolina. Find jobs from great employers. Earn a steady living and advance your career.
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www.mountainareacareers.org
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