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    How Award Staffing Uses JobsEQ to Become a Trusted Partner to Their Clients

    Traditional staffing companies source and place candidates into open roles for clients, and aid job seekers in finding employment. Award Staffing, an industrial staffing agency based in the Twin...
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    HTL Advantage and VisionFirst Advisors Use JobsEQ to Bring Ford and SK Innovation to West Tennessee

    The Problem The history of the Memphis Regional Megasite is extensive. Located halfway between Jackson and Memphis, Tennessee, this site was first identified in the early 2000s. HTL Advantage, an...
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    How JobsEQ Has Helped Baldwin County EDA Nurture 21% Job Growth in Transportation/Warehousing Since 2015

    Please note that this case study has been amended from the original post to reflect Novelis Inc’s $2.5 billion investment in the South Alabama Mega Site, to build a groundbreaking facility and bring...
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    4 Ways Educators Use JobsEQ to Win

    Being an educator will never be easy. But JobsEQ by Chmura can make it easier. And if you subscribe to JobsEQ, you haven’t just purchased a software tool. You’ve joined a community of people who...
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    How JobsEQ Helped Northwest Arkansas Bring 20,000 Visitors to Their Career Website

    Before JobsEQ: Struggling to Match Job Seekers with Real-Time Jobs For over 30 years, the Northwest Arkansas Council has helped shape the development of Northwest Arkansas, a three-county region near...
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    Chmura Helps the Greater Richmond Partnership Bring Companies Like the LEGO Group to Richmond

      The Problem   The Greater Richmond Partnership (GRP) is the lead regional economic development organization for the City of Richmond and the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico in...
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    An Update on the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women in the Workforce

    A lot has changed since our first blog on this topic in late 2021, and newly released data shed additional light on the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on female employment and its continued...
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    Preliminary Wages

    JobsEQ now includes preliminary estimates for occupation wages in order to provide a more timely compensation data set. These data build upon the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) OEWS[1] data set...
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    2022 Job Ad Trends

    What trended in the workforce in 2022 and what does that hold for 2023? This article explores that question using the RTI[1] jobs ad dataset from JobsEQ.   The Overall Market     New online job ad...
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