Workforce Leadership Forum and Workforce Summit events

Mark your calendar to be at the Kravis Center on the mornings of January 27 and May 7, 2010, for two great presentations in the continuing series of topical workforce-related Forums and Seminars.

Presented by: Workforce Alliance.

imgA January 27 – WORKFORCE FORUM The keynote speaker will be Marianne M. Jennings, author of many business leadership books, including "Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: How to Spot Moral Meltdowns in Companies Before It’s Too Late.”

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imgB May 7 – WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2010 Featuring Geoffrey Colvin, a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster and speaker on today’s most important workforce and business trends. He is a Senior Editor at Large for FORTUNE Magazine and author of two significant bestselling books: Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-class Performance from Everybody Else (2008); and The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath (2009).

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Latest Unemployment Data for PB County

The unemployment rate in Palm Beach County in Sept. 2009 was 11.7 percent, up 4.1 percentage points from the Sept. 2008 rate of 7.6 percent. The County’s unemployment rate was 0.5 percentage points higher than the state’s rate of 11.2 percent in Sept., and 2.2 percentage points higher than the USA rate of 9.5 percent, not seasonally adjusted.

Out of a labor force of 626,400 in Palm Beach County, 73,415 were unemployed.

Industries that had job growth during the past twelve months included education and health services (up 1.4 %), government (up 0.9 %), and other personal services (up 0.4 %).

Greatest job losses during the past year were in: construction (down 18.2 %); manufacturing (down 9.4 %); leisure and hospitality (down 6.8 %); and retail trade (down 6.7 %).

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