VIRTUAL QUEENS JOBS RECRUITMENT FAIR SERIES HOSTED BY QBP RICHARDS CONTINUES INTO 2021
Thursday, February 18 at 2pm
(February 9, 2021 at 10am)
QUEENS, NY – Queens Borough President Donovan Richards today announced the ongoing Virtual Queens Jobs Recruitment Fair series hosted by the Queens Borough President’s Office, connecting Queens job seekers with a wide array of employment opportunities across a variety of industries, will continue into 2021.
The next Virtual Queens Jobs Recruitment Fair will be held on Thursday, February 18 at 2:00 PM, in partnership with 10 featured employers and recruiters: CAMBA, Inc., The Child Center of New York, Commonpoint Queens, Council for Airport Opportunity, Empire Vets, Forest Hills Financial Group, the New York City Children’s Center, Queens Centers for Progress, WestHab, Inc. and Workforce1 Career Center.
“The unprecedented economic wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic have been deep and enduring, especially for our communities of color hardest hit by the virus,” said Borough President RICHARDS. “Our ultimate recovery and rebuild as a borough must center on connecting our unmatched talent with available employment opportunities as quickly and efficiently as possible, and Queens is grateful to our hiring partners who have stepped up to participate in this critical process.”
WPIX-TV (PIX11) will return as a media partner for this employment recruitment initiative after promoting previous recruitment fairs in fall 2020. The station will continue to support the upcoming fair with promotional assistance over its airwaves and on its website at www.pix11.com.
Held the third Thursday of each month, the February 18 Virtual Queens Jobs Recruitment Fair will be held online from 2:00pm to 3:30pm and live streamed at www.queensbp.org. Prospective applicants interested in participating in the live interactive Q&A via Zoom Webinar must RSVP by Wednesday, February 17 at www.queensbp.org/rsvp. Instructions on how to participate will be emailed the day of the event to those who register.
出席者和觀眾將聽取僱主和招聘人員的簡短介紹，尋求填補各種服務領域的許多職位，包括航空、運輸、發展支援、零售、金融等。
The ongoing hiring push comes as Queens’ unemployment rate sits at 10.7 percent as of December 2020, down from a high of 21.6 percent in June 2020 — but still 7.7 percent higher than February 2020’s pre-pandemic low of 3.0 percent.
According to the New York State Department of Labor’s most recent publicly available figures, more than 25,000 New York City residents filed an unemployment claim for the first time during the week of January 18. Between March 9, 2020 and January 30, 2021, more than 2.35 million New York City residents have filed unemployment claims — a 709 percent increase from the same time period one year earlier.
Launched by then-Acting Borough President Sharon Lee in April 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic downturn to connect Queens residents with jobs in essential industries, the Virtual Queens Jobs Recruitment Fair series included 12 hiring events and three dozen participating employers. Over the course of the series, more than 1,400 total connections were made between job seekers who attended the virtual fairs and the participating employers
“We greatly appreciate the opportunity to partner with Queens Borough President Donovan Richards in presenting opportunities for work at our multi-service organization,” said CABMA, Inc. President and CEO JOANNE M. OPLUSTIL. “CAMBA is a great place to work, serving 65,000 people in all five boroughs of New York City. We invest in our employees and provide opportunities for growth, and we know when you work here, you’re more than your job description.”
"在紐約兒童中心，我們相信每個孩子都能茁壯成長，因為有正確的技能、教育、諮詢和發展計劃——我們知道，一個敬業的工作人員是實現這一目標的關鍵，"紐約兒童中心招聘協調員肖莎娜·切迪說。"兒童中心優先考慮我們工作的社區的人才——真正關心社區力量和隔壁家庭福祉的人。對我們來說，重要的是候選人認識到支援和建設社區的機會。
GI Go基金首席執行官兼聯合創始人詹姆斯·法努斯（JAMES FANOUS）表示：「在流感大流行期間，確保僱主能夠遠程與應聘者建立聯繫比以往任何時候都更加重要。"帝國維茨在過去的一年裡一直努力為此而努力，將紐約市的退伍軍人與公司為COVID-19救援和恢復提供數千個機會聯繫起來。我們為能參加此次活動而感到自豪，並感謝皇后區區長將此次活動安排在一起。
"作為 FHFG 的助理和《衛報》的財務代表，您是一名企業家。你可以定義自己的職業，做自己的老闆，保持彈性的工作時間，賺取極具競爭力的收入。您將加入專業人士社區和聲譽良好的公司。最重要的是，你會為自己建立一個企業，但不是自己，"森林山金融集團運營總監黛安·紐斯塔特說。"當你成為FHFG的財務代表時，你可以擁有的不僅僅是你想要的職業。 你可以在做有意義的工作的同時擁有你想要的生活。
“In these challenging times, the New York City Children’s Center, along with the assistance of the Queens Borough President’s Office; strives to support the community and grow our workforce of professionals to strengthen our commitment to provide acute and special care to child and adolescent residents,” said New York City Children’s Center Human Resources Specialist LATASHA NASH.
皇后進步中心人力資源助理主任蜜雪兒·詹金斯說："皇后進步中心在整個大流行期間一直是一項重要的業務，我們繼續為我們有特殊需要的個人提供優質服務。"我們很高興繼續與皇后區總統辦公室建立這種夥伴關係，提供有意義的職位，提供巨大的利益和增長機會。
"Westhab正在通過開發優質的經濟適用房和提供人們和社區需要繁榮的服務來改變社區，"Westhab人力資源協調員雷切爾·皮姆布爾說。
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什麼： 虛擬皇后區招聘會
WHEN: Thursday, February 18, 2021 from 2-3:30 PM
WHERE: Live stream: www.queensbp.org
Prospective applicants interested in participating via Zoom must RSVP by Wednesday, February 17 at www.queensbp.org/rsvp.
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