Conference will focus on creative job recruitment in rural locations
| July 17, 2007 |  View for printing |
The natural resource boom of the past several years created such a demand for workers in Gillette, Wyo., that the local economic development agency went looking for hands two time zones away.
Holding job fairs in Michigan, where the struggling auto industry was laying off workers with the same skills needed in Wyoming’s energy fields, was just one trick tried by Ruth Benson, director of the Campbell County Economic Development Corp., in the state’s northeast corner.
By JOHN HARRINGTON - IR Business Editor
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