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Employers are laboring to find – and keep – quality employees
A trip to the grocery store may yield more than a full fridge for those in line with someone from St. Vincent Healthcare’s human resources department.
"It’s not weird to have one of our recruiters meet someone friendly and hand them a card and say, ‘Hey, if you’re looking for a job, you should contact us,’ " said Lynnette Kosovich, St. Vincent’s director of human resources. "I’ve been chatting with someone in line at the grocery store and asked, ‘Hey, are you working?’ "
By KERIANN LYNCH
Of The Gazette Staff
Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/19/news/local/18-demand.txt
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Businesses need new techniques to find workers
By KERIANN LYNCH
Of The Gazette Staff
Several area businesses have adapted different techniques to lure hard-to-find workers.
Here’s an example of just a few: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070819/BUSINESS/708190307/1046
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City study recommends raising wages
By TOM HOWARD
Of The Gazette Staff
A pay study conducted for the city of Billings recommends raising wages for 41 employees.
Raising the pay of those employees would cost about $30,000 in the year the increase goes into effect and $62,000 a year afterward. An alternative plan calls for raising the pay of 123 of the city’s lowest-paid employees at a cost of about $92,000 the first year and $223,000 a year afterward.
Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/19/news/local/24-wages.txt
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