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11-15-2009, 12:36 AM
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Moving to Bloomington, IL
I have lived about an hour away from Bloomington, IL for awhile, and I'm looking to move into the city. Right now I am sending out resumes, and will be looking for an apartment soon. I check the Pantagraph everyday, but I know some businesses do not post openings in the paper. I was wondering where the hidden gems of employment are?
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11-15-2009, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Trybal
I have lived about an hour away from Bloomington, IL for awhile, and I'm looking to move into the city. Right now I am sending out resumes, and will be looking for an apartment soon. I check the Pantagraph everyday, but I know some businesses do not post openings in the paper. I was wondering where the hidden gems of employment are?
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Picking a heck of a time to move....IF....the economy is recovering, jobs won't catch up for 1-2 years. Being the traditional method of unemployment calculation (pre 1992) has us at 18% unemployment....not the best time to get a job. When you look at unemployed plus underemployed, you are looking at 30%. Good luck.....but I wouldn't expect to find much.
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11-18-2009, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Trybal
I have lived about an hour away from Bloomington, IL for awhile, and I'm looking to move into the city. Right now I am sending out resumes, and will be looking for an apartment soon. I check the Pantagraph everyday, but I know some businesses do not post openings in the paper. I was wondering where the hidden gems of employment are?
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I agree, in general, with the other comment about the difficulty with changing jobs in this economy. You didn't mention your job experience or education. If you have either or both, it's never hopeless in any economy.
Although I live an hour from Bloomington myself, I have friends that work at State Farm. It seems like the ideal place to work. They employ about 7000 people, which is huge in this community. I don't know how they post job openings, but if you know anyone personally who works there, they most likely have some kind of internal system for posting jobs that could give you an early lead if someone in the company could tip you when something opened up.
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11-18-2009, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Trybal
I have lived about an hour away from Bloomington, IL for awhile, and I'm looking to move into the city. Right now I am sending out resumes, and will be looking for an apartment soon. I check the Pantagraph everyday, but I know some businesses do not post openings in the paper. I was wondering where the hidden gems of employment are?
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Good luck. Lived there for years and I got tired of hearing that (well back then anyway 2000) $8 an hour was considered good pay, I got sick of it and decided to move to Chicago's burbs where at least I'm not trying to live on a poverty wage. Perhaps thats the very reason many people don't tend to stay down there after college. You may want to really look at your options because I don't see any "hidden gems" other than State Farm in Bloomington. If there were "hidden gems" don't you think more than 110,000 people would live in the area... 20,000 of which that were counted were students most of which are from Chicago? Might tell you something. 
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11-18-2009, 08:48 PM
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I don't know that SF is such a gem these days. I just read something about it laying off a lot people.
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11-22-2009, 01:31 AM
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obviously emploment opportunities will depend on your background/experience. having worked for SF for some time, I can say that that what linicx says is quite false. but there are lots of quality positions in BN beyond SF.
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11-22-2009, 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by oneluckymug
Picking a heck of a time to move....IF....the economy is recovering, jobs won't catch up for 1-2 years. Being the traditional method of unemployment calculation (pre 1992) has us at 18% unemployment....not the best time to get a job. When you look at unemployed plus underemployed, you are looking at 30%. Good luck.....but I wouldn't expect to find much.
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If what you say is true, it doesn't look like anyone has too many "gems" to hide. All of IL seems to have the same problem with moving full time with benefits to part-time time with no-benefits.
The results from Black Friday should be interesting. |
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