1:45pm | In the midst of a terrible recession and slow employment recovery, the City of Long Beach launched a new job-finding resource today to connect employees with hiring businesses in Long Beach and beyond.
People looking for work can log into HireLB.com and upload a resume and other useful information for hiring businesses to find. The site pulls from regional and national job search engines like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com and HotJobs.com to cast a wide net in the job search.
The idea was passed by the City Council a few months ago in a proposal made by Robert Garcia, who said today that the site aims to place the unemployed back into the workforce.
“Before this, the City didn’t have an active, useful web portal for jobs,” Garcia said. “This does three things. It creates opportunities for people looking for jobs to find available jobs, it allows business to seek out people looking for work, and it connects people with services that we already provide as a City that they may not now about, like resume writing and job searching techniques.”
The project is a partnership between the City of Long Beach, the California Employment Development Department and the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network.
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