{"id":13569,"date":"2019-09-25T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=13569"},"modified":"2019-09-25T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T18:04:34","slug":"investigating-a-job-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/investigating-a-job-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating a Job Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/362364643\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jobs are very important to the real estate market. The more information I have have about employment trends in Greater Hartford, the better I can advise clients as they look to buy and sell homes.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to attend a local job fair to see firsthand which companies are hiring, and how that compared to the number of job seekers. <\/p>\n<p>The quick summary is that Connecticut Convention Center&#8217;s top level ballroom was filled with both companies manning recruiting booths and people hoping to find their next opportunity. It was a very active event with a nice number of employers looking for workers. Most of the available positions were understandably lower level roles targeting people who already live in the region.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always interested to hear the latest about the local economy, so please reach out if you would like to share any information!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs are very important to the real estate market. The more information I have have about employment trends in Greater Hartford, the better I can advise clients as they look to buy and sell homes. I decided to attend a local job fair to see firsthand which companies are hiring, and how that compared to the number of job seekers. The quick summary is that Connecticut Convention Center&#8217;s top level ballroom was filled with both<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/investigating-a-job-fair\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1596,1598],"tags":[2052,4088],"class_list":["post-13569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-think-big","category-video","tag-economy","tag-job-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13574,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions\/13574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}