The window of opportunity is closing for boutique bond trading firms to make a killing from market turmoil as big Wall Street banks regain their footing and rehire staff.

With so many candidates in the job market, employers are more likely to use telephone interviews to screen those seeking work, according to one outplacement firm.

About 550 employees at the Siemens Energy gas turbine plant in Hamilton are set to lose their jobs as the German industrial conglomerate relocates the facility to North Carolina.

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Alliance Staffing Solutions, a full-service recruitment firm with offices in Cuyahoga, Summit, Portage and Franklin counties, has announced a joint venture with eSearch, Inc.

NINETY jobs are at risk at a meat processing factory in Shaftesbury. Pork Farms confirmed that 60 per cent of the 150 posts at the plant at Longmead are under review following the loss of a major customer.

Career professionals from The Entrepreneur’s Source and The Goddard Group are providing free job transition advice in presentations on the DeVry University campus.

Randolph-based Heritage Community Bank recently named Randolph native LAURA NISVOCCIA as the bank’s vice president for information technology and operations.

The number of chief executives who left their posts surged in February to the highest level since September 2008, when the economy was rocked by the financial crisis.

With the annual March Madness college basketball tournament poised to begin next week, employers from sea to shining sea are already cringing in anticipation of the productivity that will be lost as workers obsess over which teams will advance through the NCAA brackets to the national championship game on April 4. John Challenger, president of the …