Mountain Area Works Highlights
- Work/Life-Balance Job Fair - employer registration open now!
- NCWorks.gov Website Again Serving Jobseekers and Employers After Outage
- CNBC ranks North Carolina #1 for business
- Asheville metro employment by sector May 2019 versus May 2022
- Asheville metro unemployment rate May 2022 at 3.0%, lowest in NC, #1 in state for increase in jobs since May 2021
- Biltmore Supports A-B Tech Culinary Through Sponsorships and Scholarships
- Over 300 job seekers attended the "$19 per Hour and Beyond" Job Fair
- Guided Compass Mountain Area Workforce Development Board Online Portal
- 2022 WNC Rebounding Stronger Summit presented by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Southwestern Commission and Land of Sky Regional Council
- Employers Post Your Work-Based Learning Opportunities on The Navigator
- NCWorks Career Center Asheville workshops June and July 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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Work/Life-Balance Job Fair - employer registration now open! |
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NCWorks.gov again serving Jobseekers and Employers |
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NCWorks.gov again serving Jobseekers and Employers
NC’s jobs portal, NCWorks.gov, is now back online and available for use by jobseekers and employers.Geographic Solutions, Inc. (GSI) ... took NCWorks.gov offline on June 26, following a cyber incident that affected the company's servers.
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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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Asheville metro employment by sector May 2019 versus May 2022 |
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Asheville metro (as of May 2022) employment is above pre-pandemic employment in all sectors except Education & Health Services and Leisure & Hospitality. |
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Unemployment rate in Mountain Area region 3.1% as of May 2022. As of May 2022, 12,475 more people working compared to May 2021. 1,116 more people working compared to April 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 222,673.
Total Employed Labor Force 215,881.
Record number of jobs, number of people in the labor force and number of people working.
Our region has completely recovered the labor force compared to prepandemic. Labor force before the pandemic was 219,952. We are 2,721 workers above the labor force prior to the pandemic. Our region is also above by 2,535 jobs of the numbers of individuals employed prior 213,346 to the pandemic.
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Mountain Area WDB Job Openings NCWorks.gov |
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Mountain Area WDB Labor Force |
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Mountain Area WDB Employed Individuals |
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Mountain Area WDB Unemployed Individuals |
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Asheville MSA Industry Jobs Compared to One Year Ago |
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Mountain Area WDB Taxable Retail Sales |
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Asheville metro unemployment rate at 3.0%, lowest of any NC metro |
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Asheville metro now (as of May 2022) the lowest unemployment of any NC metro at 3.0%. This rate is 1.1% points lower than the metro unemployment rate of 3.9% of one year ago. All counties in our region have unemployment rates below the state unemployment rate of 3.4%.
Buncombe 3.0%
Haywood 3.2%
Henderson 3.1%
Madison 3.4%
Transylvania 3.3%
Compared to May 2021, the Asheville metro added 8,700 jobs.
Asheville metro has the #1 greatest increase in jobs (4.5%) out of NC's 15 metros in the past year. Year over Year job growth by metro:
- Asheville 4.5%
- Raleigh 4.3%
- Charlotte/Concord/Gastonia 4.1%
- Hickory/Lenoir/Morganton 3.6%
- Fayetteville 3.3%
- Greensboro/High Point 3.2%
- Wilmington 3.1%
- Durham/Chapel Hill 3.0%
- Jacksonville 2.7%
- Greenville 1.6%
- Burlington 1.1%
- Winston-Salem 2.0%
- New Bern 1.3%
- Goldsboro 1.2%
- Rocky Mount 0.7%
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Biltmore Supports A-B Tech Culinary Through Sponsorships and Scholarships |
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Biltmore Supports A-B Tech Culinary Through Sponsorships
In partnership with A-B Tech, Biltmore will award 4 Training Scholarships to students of the college's Culinary Arts or Baking & Pastry Arts programs. Students will "learn earn" through individualized training program supported by the scholarship.
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abtech.edu
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Over 300 job seekers attended the "$19 per Hour and Beyond" Job Fair |
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Over 300 job seekers attended the “$19 per Hour And Beyond” Job Fair. We thank our many media partners for sharing the news including WLOS TV, Asheville Radio Group, Hendersonville Lightning, Transylvania Times, AVL Today, WWNC 570AM and more. We also thank the many volunteers who supported this job fair.
Employer A: "I wanted to thank you so much for the opportunity to attend yesterday’s event. We spoke to more folks yesterday than we have if we combined all the job fairs over the past two years. I have been keeping an ear open today and we have already had several folks from yesterday reach out to us, starting the application process, etc."
Employer B: “I just wanted to share with you that this has been the best event that we have been to! Well organized and I truly appreciate what you and the team do for the community!”
Employer C: “Thank you for putting together another wonderful career fair!”
Employer D: “[Our company] was privileged to attend the $19 an Hour and Beyond Job Fair again this year. We connected with candidates all throughout the day and left the job fair with a lot of great resumes. Our company attends many job fairs throughout the year and we feel that the job fairs that are put on by the Land of the Sky Regional Council and the Mountain Workforce Development Board are among the best that we attend. After attending another successful job fair on June 29th, we will always make it a priority to attend any future job fairs put on by the Land of the Sky Regional Council and the Mountain Workforce Development Board."
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Schenck Job Corps students learn about career pathways at the $19 per Hour And Beyond Job Fair |
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Students from Schenck Job Corps in Pisgah Forest, NC attended the recent "$19 per Hour and Beyond" Job Fair to help improve their understanding of the many career pathways available to them.
Students at Schenck receive an education in the skilled trades including Manufacturing, Welding, Automotive and Machine Repair, Carpentry, Painting, Facilities Maintenance and Culinary Arts. We encourage employers to make a connection with Schenck Job Corps as a tool to meet your talent needs.
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Home | Schenck Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center
SCHENCK JOB CORPS CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CENTER PROVIDES ON-THE-JOB TRAINING AND HELP YOU FIND THE CAREER THAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU..
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schenck.jobcorps.gov
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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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2022 WNC Rebounding Stronger Summit |
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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 July and August 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
North Carolina's unemployment rate dropped to 3.4% in April 2022, when seasonally-adjusted. That's dropped by 0.1% from the prior month's revised rate, according to new data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
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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%)
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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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