Peter Collins on the job, delivering oxygen tanks

The month after the Lehman Brothers collapse in the fall of 2008, Peter Collins was downsized with a half dozen other people from at a Bloomfield commercial printer.

Collins, 51, who had spent his whole career as a [...]

Many (most?) of us have had to answer “Where do you see yourself in five years?” and “What are your weaknesses?” in job interviews.

But how would you like to have to estimate how many windows there are in New York?

Glassdoor, a crowd-sourced website that prepares candidates for job interviews and salary negotiations by [...]

but it’s still not back to pre-recession health.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics summed up all the state jobs reports today, and it shows Connecticut was one of only nine states that added enough jobs in April that the agency’s economists are confident the growth is more than just noise in the data.

While  30 states added jobs in April, in 21, the [...]

Connecticut’s employers hired briskly in April, as both private companies and government employers added positions, for a combined total of 6,300 new jobs.

The release Thursday from the state Department of Labor was an encouraging report, said economist Pete Gioia, with the Connecticut Business and Industry Association. But he said the state needs to add [...]

This week, another 390 people who used to work at Pfizer offices in Groton learned they can qualify for extended unemployment benefits and college tuition or other training programs because the federal government has verified that their jobs were moved overseas. The Trade Adjustment Assistance program will also pay for some relocation expenses if job [...]

Economists at the Federal Reserve ran a study to isolate how much the shrinking labor force has to do with demographic changes — fewer high school and college students working part-time jobs, and Baby Boomers reaching retirement age — and how much is the economy.

They looked at how bad job losses were in [...]

From 2001 to 2011, through one mild recession and one huge one, union workers maintained their wage edge compared to all other workers.

A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics Analysis  shows that the average union worker in March 2011 earned $23.02 hourly, or nearly $48,000 a year, and the average non-union worker earned $19.51 hourly, [...]

Tab Retail Remodeling will interview candidates from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Hamden CT Works, 37 Marne St.

The company is looking for people who will shelve goods, wait on customers and clean, with days and nights available. Over 18, no criminal records. The company asks that candidates “work with a sense of [...]

Cannondale, a bicycle manufacturer, is expanding its Connecticut workforce by about 50 percent over the next four years, my colleague Ken Gosselin reports.

The state is lending $3 million to Cannondale, two-thirds of which is forgivable if the company adds 75 people over four years.

The state will borrow the money by issuing bonds [...]