Indiana Collegiate Career Fair

Friday, April 4, 200810:00am - 3:00 pm
Indiana Convention Center - Indianapolis

The Indiana Collegiate Job Fair is open to all two-year, four-year, graduate students, and alumni from any educational institution across the nation. This event is sponsored by a variety of IN state-supported colleges/universities, including all campuses of Purdue University.

Contact: Center for Career Opportunities - Cris Muir (765) 496-6673IUPUI Career and Employment Services (317) 274-3215 jobfairs@iupui.edu

Job Fair - March 3, 2008 - Bedford, IN

U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Monticello, and state Rep. Eric Koch, R-Bedford, have joined together to host the 2008 Hoosier Job Fair.

The job fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 3 at the Lawrence County 4-H Fairgrounds Expo Hall.

The fair is intended to help job-hunting Hoosiers to match their skills with the needs of employers in the area and will be held in cooperation with Indiana WorkOne, the Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence County Fairgrounds.

The event will be free to both businesses and job-seekers. Businesses who would like to participate should contact Michelle Price in Congressman Buyer’s Plainfield District Office at (317) 838-0404 or visit his Web site at www.stevebuyer.house.gov to sign up.

White Lodging to expand headquarters

Hotel giant White Lodging Services said today it will expand its headquarters in the northwestern Indiana town of Merrillville and add 100 jobs within four years.

Two buildings on the town's southwest side will be renovated at a cost of $4 million. The project will result in 60,000 square feet of space, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corp.

White currently has 116 employees at a leased headquarters.Founded in 1985, White owns and manages hotels in 14 states.In the Indianapolis area, White owns 10 hotels under Marriott brands including Fairfield Inn & Suites, Residence Inn, Courtyard and Springhill Suites.

White is developing a 1,000-room Marriott convention hotel in downtown Indianapolis with locally based REI Real Estate Services. The hotel is expected to open by April 2011.

Source: IBJ

EDS to add 100-plus jobs in West Lafayette

EDS plans to hire more than 100 workers at a new location in Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, according to sources familiar with an announcement scheduled this afternoon.The exact number of jobs was not available.

The Plano, Texas-based computer services firm would not comment.EDS will hire business analysts, systems and software developers and other kinds of employees.The average wage for the jobs is not known.

The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has agreed to give EDS training grants as an incentive. EDS already employs about 1,000 workers in Indiana at locations in Indianapolis, Kokomo and the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center, among other locations.EDS has provided the computer system to judge and process Medicaid claims for Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration since 1991.

EDS performs similar work for 21 other states.In Indiana, EDS commercial customers include Delphi Corp. and Rolls-Royce.

Source: IBJ

Cummins creates 500 jobs in Columbus

Columbus diesel engine maker Cummins Inc. announced today it will add 500 jobs near its downtown headquarters in the next two years. The positions will be engineers and other professional employees. They will be located in a 100,000-square-foot building under construction in the Commons Mall redevelopment project.

Cummins currently has 5,500 workers in Columbus, plus 900 other contract workers.

Self Publisher Will Relocate to Bloomington

Author Solutions, Inc. says iUniverse, the self publisher that it acquired last year, will relocate from Lincoln, Nebraska to Bloomington at the end of March. Officials say the move could potentially create up to 50 new jobs.

The company says employees at the current headquarters will be offered the option of remaining with the company after the move to Indiana.

Middlebury Home to New Manufacturing Facility

Das Dutchman Essenhaus announces the ribbon cutting ceremony and grand opening of their home-style noodle production facility. The building, located on U.S. 20 in Middlebury, is across from the main campus where the Restaurant, Inn & Conference Center, and Essenhaus Village Shops are located.

The grand opening marks the completion of the building project which began in mid-April, 2007. DJ Construction Co., Inc. of Goshen, IN., served as the general contractor for the project. The new facility houses the production area, warehouse space, and offices which amount to over 34,500 square feet.

Essenhaus Foods distributes products to supermarket chains in 40 states. Noodles made at the production facility are served in the popular Das Dutchman Essenhaus restaurant and are available for purchase in their bakery.

Source: Das Dutchman Essenhaus

Job Fair Announced

Dynamics C4 Systems will hold a technical open house for senior-level software engineers interested in working at the company’s Fort Wayne, Ind., facility. Engineers with experience in software defined radio design, development and related functions are encouraged to attend.

Interested applicants should have a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering or a related field. Applicants for jobs that require a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance must be U.S. citizens or otherwise capable of obtaining a security clearance.

Applicants are asked to bring five resume copies.

Positions available include:

• Software engineering manager, Software Defined Radio development
• Senior Software Defined Radio software engineer
• Real-time embedded Software Defined Radio engineer
• Senior software engineer

For additional positions and detailed information visit www.gdc4s.com/careers

WHAT: Technical Open House/Hiring Event
WHEN: Tuesday, Jan. 29 and Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008; 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Don Hall’s Guest House; 1313 W. Washington Center Road; Fort Wayne, Ind.

Source: Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has announced Indianapolis-based POLARIS Laboratories as its Indiana 2008 Small Business of the Year. Founded in 1999, the company now has 79 employees in Indianapolis and 28 employees at laboratories in Houston and Salt Lake City. It reported revenue of $9.2 million in 2007.

Source: Inside INdiana Business

10 Tips for Surviving a Layoff:

10. Know What You Are Worth
Understand that you have enormous amount of talent and with that comes your value to another company. When you begin to take yourself seriously others will as well.

9. Know What You Are Made Of
Knowing and understanding your talent and skills is not an easy thing. Take a full inventory of what you offer. Put yourself in the place of an employer and think about what you could offer them.

8. Brand Yourself
Branding is what Tom Peters, author of Brand You 50, is the process of reinventing yourself. To be a brand, create a portfolio of your talents, skills, and attributes. Start with pen a paper.

7. Your 30 Second Commercial
After you have determined what your brand is, explain who you are in 30 seconds or less. This takes some practice. Some call this the elevator speech. The point is that you become as clear as you can be about who you are and what you offer.

6. Keep Learning
Determine if you should upgrade your skills. Take an inventory of your current skills. Don't be afraid to take a few classes to beef up your marketability and increase your value to a new employer.

5. Create Your Network
Do you know any big thinkers? Who do they know? Take these people to lunch or breakfast. Spend time with people who know how to make things happen. Companies are not looking to fill jobs, they are looking to solve problems, reduce cost and increase profit. Meet people who work where you want to work and ask for an informational interview.

4. Embrace Change & Understand Transition
It's normal to feel a little out of control and "like a lost puppy on the highway." Emotions are healthy. Learn to re-group yourself and plant your feet back on the ground.

3. Raise Your Standards
Be clear in your mind about what you will not accept. When the unacceptable rears its head and it will, you will know what to do. Some "unacceptable" things may be in area of pay, position responsibility, "starting over", or any other aspect of a job that will make you feel undervalued. Ultimately if you are not happy about something in your job proposal, you will grow unhappier by the day.

2. Build Your Emotional Support System
It is important to harness positive energy. Your emotional support system consists of new contacts, close and trusted friends and family. When people ask how you are doing be honest: "This is the best time of my life ever! I am in a good place and learning a lot!" When they hear your optimism they will be uplifted and so will you!

1. Nurture Yourself
During this time of transition, you will need plenty of stamina. Your mental and physical resources will be tapped on a daily and even hourly basis. Take care of yourself. Know what your body needs. Listen for signals of fatigue, mood swings, and stress. Build in breaks in your day to do and focus on something other than work. Watch what you are eating. Maintain a healthier diet than before. Exercise throughout the week to keep your body healthy and alert. Your body needs you too!

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Indiana Unadvertised Job Opportunities

Unified Services Group is expanding. With 90 employees at present, the company is set to add 9,000 square feet to its 13,000 square foot facility at 3131 E. 67th Street in Anderson. The project represents an investment of $850,000.

Fifteen jobs will be created by the company initially and it hopes to add 80 jobs within the next five years. Fredricks, Inc. is the general contractor.

The 11-year old company offers employee benefit plan administration to nearly 120 employer groups throughout Indiana and the Midwest.

Indiana Unadvertised Job Opportunites

Connextions Inc.’s plans to create more than 750 Hoosier jobs at a new high-tech support center at River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville. Connextions is a business process integration firm with broad expertise in the healthcare industry.

Approximately 2,000 employees are employed with Connextions at offices in Orlando, Florida and Concord, North Carolina.

Beginning later this year, Connextions’ customer contact center will employ customer support professionals, registered nurses, insurance agents, and technical support specialists to serve its expanding individual healthcare insurance business. By combining software that measures and predicts customer behavior and preferences together with highly interactive web and telephone-based systems, Connextions helps its client companies – which include Federal Express, Sprint, Mercedes-Benz, Caremark and Kaiser Permanente – to gain new customers and maintain their brand loyalty.

About Connextions Inc.:

Founded in 1992, with facilities Orlando, FL and Concord, NC, Connextions’ nearly 2,000 professionals provide technology-based business solutions for a long list of America’s best-known corporate and healthcare organizations, including Federal Express, Sprint, Mercedes-Benz, Olympus, SanDisk, Colonial Penn, Golden Rule, Caremark, Assurant Health and The Lance Armstrong Foundation.

www.connextions.com

Indiana Unadvertised Job Opportunites

Plymouth, Indiana – October 30, 2007 - The Plymouth-Marshall County Technology Squared Initiative, Inc. (T-squared) announced today that they had received a letter of intent from an orthopedic device company to locate in the proposed Plymouth tech park, The techFarm™.
David Miller, President of T-Squared, stated that the company provides Research & Development, Engineering & Testing, Commercialization, and Manufacturing resources to orthopedic and medical device companies in the U.S.

Miller said that the company’s intent will be the basis of the City of Plymouth’s application to the State of Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) to become a “Certified Tech Park.” In order to apply for Certified Tech Park status, a community must submit their application to the IEDC specifying a high tech company that wishes to locate in the Park.

The company is considering locating in Plymouth or a site in Kentucky. The Kentucky area has already proposed a broad set of incentives to try to lure the Company across the border.
Plymouth and Marshall County have committed over $700,000 to the tech park initiative and the Private Sector has committed over $1 million.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration recently approved a grant for $1.1 million for tech park infrastructure.

Certified Tech Park status from the IEDC will allow Plymouth access to the state’s Technology Development Grant fund and also allow for the use of other State incentives in the Park.

According to Doug Anspach, Plymouth’s Economic Development Director, “This is a perfect opportunity for the State of Indiana to support a small, rural market like Plymouth in its technology and economic development efforts, and time is of the essence, as the Company is going to make their location decision by mid-November, 2007.”

The Plymouth-Marshall County Technology2 Initiative is a public/private economic development strategy that positions the area for long-term economic growth, and enhances the quality of life of the citizens. T2 is made up of three comprehensive and complimentary developments: The techFarmTM, the techVillage, and the MCmetroNet.

The techFarmTM offers a highly visible suburban setting where technology businesses can grow and prosper. This public/private partnership with Van Vactor Development includes an R&D Testing Center, a new product commercialization facility, a state-of-the-art training facility, and plenty of acreage for company expansions.

The techVillage combines the advantages of a near-downtown urban setting, property redevelopment, and a Community Resource Center, and offers opportunities for office-based technical development and a knowledge-based small business incubator. The Community Resource Center will provide a common building for area social service agencies, providing better facilities, improved accessibility and efficiencies of scale.

In conjunction with these two developments, the MCmetroNet project is aggressively implementing a broadband strategy that will bring competitively priced fiber optic cable for businesses into the area.

Source: Plymouth-Marshall County Technology Squared Initiative, Inc.

New Company Coming to Indiana - Unadvertised Job Opportunities

Becker Acroma is a Swedish manufacturer of wood finishing products. The company says it plans to create 40 new jobs and invest up to $6 million in the new facility. The plant will be located in the Bridgeport Business Centre in Jeffersonville

Indiana Company Growth and Unadvertised Job Opportunities

Fort Wayne's ITT Corp. has been awarded a U.S. Army contract worth more than $79.5 million to supply a radio package for the Iraqi Armed Forces.

Talbert Manufacturing in Rensselaer will also receive about $26.5 million as part of a larger contract to deliver semi-trailers and supporting vehicle system kits.

Source: Inside INdiana Business

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Tech firm to bring 300 jobs to Marion

Veriana Networks Inc. announced Tuesday it would begin construction early next year on the headquarters near the Interstate 69 and Indiana 18 interchange. Veriana is a spin-off company from San Diego-based Verimatrix, which is working in the development of Internet Protocol Television.

Rob Swagger, co-founder and interim CEO of Veriana Networks, grew up in the Grant County town of Van Buren and graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion.

Swagger said about 100 people should be hired in the company's first year of operation and that could grow to about 285 workers by 2012. Its main business will be developing ways to target advertising specifically to the viewer through handheld media players and personal computers.

AT&T will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony this afternoon to officially open its new call center in Evansville. The facility is expected to employ 600 people by April 2008. The call center will provide wireless customer care operations for AT&T’s business-to-business organization.