Ybor City took another step toward becoming a true live-work-play neighborhood Tuesday as Ashley Furniture HomeStores celebrated the opening of its ecommerce offices. The retailer moved 200 jobs to Ybor City as part of the new operation, including the creation of 40 new e-commerce jobs.
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Labinal Power Systems, a subsidiary of aerospace, defense and security firm Safran, is expanding its facility in Manatee County, according to a statement from the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corp. The expansion includes the relocation of Aerosource, which Safran acquired in 2011, from New Jersey to south Manatee County. The…
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Anthony Comer walked in to Amalie Arena on Tuesday morning hoping for a fun way to skip class. He walked out with a potential new job. Comer, a 19-year-old senior at Tampa Bay Tech High School, made the most of the first ever Build Tampa Bay technical career fair, pairing…
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The number one question our team is hearing lately is: “So, what’s the new focus at TBTF and how can we get more out of our membership?” Workforce has always been the driving motivation of TBTF, and this year we’re going to step up our impact. Last year, we partnered with CareerSource…
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Health IT jobs are growing as analyzing patient data captured by electronic medical records becomes more important for clinical improvements, business efficiency and patient satisfaction. Just-released results of a survey from Bisk Education Inc. are designed to get a pulse on the growing health IT field, which links information technology,…
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The chief job recruiting arm of Tampa and Hillsborough County is riding a traditional wave of big-name corporate expansion, from Bristol-Myers Squibb to Johnson & Johnson, with many more deals in the pipeline soon to be announced. Why rock the boat? In what might seem a counter-intuitive move, the leaders…
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A new entrepreneurship program that is geared toward military veterans will be locally implemented with the help of Hillsborough Community College in Tampa. The nonprofit Veterans Florida, which developed the entrepreneurship program, was developed itself by the Florida Legislature in an effort to create more job opportunities for vets in…
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2015 was a milestone year for the TBTF Workforce Initiative and we can’t wait to see what 2016 will bring when we significantly increase our workforce initiatives. We kick off 2016 with a huge Career Fair Event and you can expect to see an increase in community driven initiatives and…
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The Tampa metro area leads the state in job creation over the past year, adding 40,500 new jobs. The unemployment rate has declined here by 1.1 percentage points to 4.6 percent in November. Florida, overall, had a 5 percent unemployment rate in November, down 0.2 percent from October and down…
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According to a study by the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) two key state-administered workforce training grants are producing excellent results for the Florida businesses taking advantage of them. The study, which examined the grants distributed during fiscal years 2011-2014, gauged the effectiveness of the Incumbent…
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