July 11, 2005: NORTON JOB FAIR TUESDAY SEEKS TO BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN RISING JOB CREATION AND RISING...
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July 11, 2005
NORTON JOB FAIR TUESDAY SEEKS TO BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN
RISING JOB CREATION AND RISING UNEMPLOYMENT
Washington, DC—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton’s8th Annual Job Fair, open only to D.C. residents, will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, July 12, 2005, from 11 AM to 4 PM at the Washington Convention Center, located at 9th and Mount Vernon Place, NW. Norton said, “Residents need this year’s job fair because they will want to know where the jobs are at a time when job growth fell significantly short of official forecasts and a smaller share of the U.S. population is in the workforce than at the start of the 2001 recession. D.C. is a job creation machine for suburban residents while unemployment continues to rise for D.C. residents. At our job fair D.C. residents will have a first crack at jobs in the city and in the region.”
Norton Job Fair VIII also will feature workshops from 10 to 11 AM on completing federal and D.C. government job applications, preparing a resume, interviewing skills, and dressing for success. The job fair usually draws up to 9,000 job seekers, but residents do not wait in long lines because employers are spread out in an expansive area at the convention center. Participants must have some form of D.C. identification. Recruiters are expected to have jobs to offer or to take resumes for future positions.
Norton holds this job fair annually as part of her push for jobs, a major feature of her service in Congress. The Congresswoman’s emphasis on jobs led to her Southeast Federal Center bill, which is reclaiming 57 acres of prime federal land for jobs and housing for the District, and to her agreement with the General Services Administration for the employment of D.C. residents on all federal construction and renovations here.
The Norton Job Fair will feature more than 70 employers recruiting for a wide range of jobs at every level. Employers will include a variety of private employers from the city and the region, many recruiting at the job fair for the first time, such as Strayer University, Best Buy and the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington. Returning employers include Chevy Chase Bank and PEPCO; federal agencies such as NASA and the National Park Service; local government agencies such as the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the District of Columbia Courts; and medical institutions such as Washington Hospital Center and Howard University.