Author: Charlotte Works Staff

17 Apr Employer Extra: Show me the money?

Posted at 14:29h in Employers by Charlotte Works Staff

When hiring new staff members for your growing business, important questions to ask are: What skills do I need? How much experience am I looking for? What about education? In addition, perhaps most importantly, how much should I pay? Setting the right salary is crucial for the growth and success...

17 Apr Charlotte Premium Outlets to host job fair

Posted at 14:10h in Job-Seeker by Charlotte Works Staff

Charlotte Premium Outlets, Charlotte’s first outlet mall, will host a job fair on Friday, May 2, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel (3315 Scott Futrell Dr., Charlotte, NC 28208). Human resources representatives from many of the 100 stores set to...

14 Mar OJT grant engineers success for job-seeker, employer

Posted at 18:54h in Success Story by Charlotte Works Staff

Albeiro Loaiza chased his dream of freedom to America from Colombia in 2002. “I believe in freedom,” he says, “and I think America, for me, is the best country in the world to provide freedom for me and for my kids.” His children, now 22 and 24,...

14 Mar Find personal and professional success at our March workshops

Posted at 18:40h in Workshops by Charlotte Works Staff

Space is filling quickly at our popular workshops, including our brand new session on making sense of your credit score and the next entry in our Employer Series: On-The-Job Training Grants Orientation Thursday, March 20 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Were you laid off from a Mecklenburg County employer?...

14 Mar Congratulations! They’ve landed!

Posted at 18:31h in Success Story by Charlotte Works Staff

Charlotte Works congratulates the following clients who’ve landed positions since the start of 2014: Mark Black serves as an information security incident analyst with Vanguard (a contract position through Randstad); he started around Feb. 17. Black and his family moved to Charlotte from Virginia Beach, Va., in...

14 Mar GM Financial “drives” a great information session

Posted at 18:11h in Workshops by Charlotte Works Staff

Have you dreamed of working for a company that is voted one of the “Best Places to Work” by readers of the Charlotte Business Journal, or wins a Sloan Award for Excellence in the Workplace for Effectiveness and Flexibility? A company doesn’t earn those accolades...

14 Mar NCWorks Online goes offline to bring you enhancements

Posted at 18:00h in News by Charlotte Works Staff

Sometimes distance really does make the heart grow fonder. The state of North Carolina hopes that an upcoming weekend shut-down of its nearly year-old NCWorks Online system and resulting re-boot with enhancements will gladden the hearts of job-seekers and employers alike. NCWorks Online will go offline on...

14 Mar The 10 Commandments of Job Search

Posted at 17:43h in Job-Seeker by Charlotte Works Staff

Reprinted with permission from ITintheD.org. We gave you The Ten Commandments of Networking. We even gave you The Seven Deadly Sins of Networking. After using those as the foundation for our speaking engagements over the last few years, we noticed that it was time to change things up...

17 Feb Get your job fair on!

Posted at 00:44h in Job-Seeker by Charlotte Works Staff

If you’re in the market for a new job, the next few weeks offer multiple opportunities for you to get face-to-face with hiring managers and other company representatives to pitch yourself for open positions. Here are the details on four upcoming job fairs: The Mayor’s Job Fair:...

15 Feb 2013 Outstanding SNAP Site of the Year: Grace-Mar Services, Inc. is taking the lead

Posted at 19:08h in SNAP Sites by Charlotte Works Staff

“I interviewed with several nonprofits and no one would give me a job,” says Kenny Smith, president and founder of Grace-Mar Services, Inc., describing the organization’s beginnings. “So I said to my wife, ‘I’ll start my own.’” A career as a top sales professional with GE...