Here are some tidbits of information in today’s news that should be of interest to business- and career-minded citizens of the great state of North Dakota… Northward by northwest: North Bismarck sees growth in commercial and residential areas Steady growth and development along major transportation routes happens, in part, due to accessibility advantages. As...
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North Dakota’s exploding economy continues to provide ample jobs to those that are ready to take advantage of the opportunity. Take San Francisco-based Fortune 500 company, URS Corp., for example. URS employs 47,000 employees worldwide and is looking to establish a base for oil and gas services in Bismarck-Mandan for the foreseeable future. However,...
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(Excepts take from an article by Christopher Bjorke for the Bismarck Tribune, Wednesday, September 28) Economic activity in North Dakota, measured by sales and purchases, are on an extended hot streak with totals from this spring up $1 billion or 31.5 percent above the same period in 2010. “Those are big numbers, but it...
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A while back I posted about the employment opportunities abounding in the towns surrounding the oil-rich Bakken formation, estimated to hold anywhere between 4 billion and 24 billion barrels of oil. Well, the news keeps getting better! As oil companies have discovered ways to tap this reserve, more and more manpower is needed to...
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It’s September. Labor Day has passed. The kids are back to school. Summer is over. For those that have been unemployed for a while, the full-time job of searching for a job must resume. But with word from last Friday that no jobs were added in the U.S. in August, leaving us with a...
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If you’ve been out of the resume writing game for awhile (or even if you haven’t), putting together a polished, informational resume can be a daunting task. Do I include my college gigs? Is it a death sentence if it’s longer than 2 pages? What if I have gaps in my employment? Monster.com has...
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