The student job fair at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School continues to grow, with more than 700 students from MVRHS and Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School expected to attend the fair next week
The hospital and its nursing home had 219 job openings unfilled in February, an issue hospital staff say is part of a nationwide trend that has been exacerbated by the Island’s isolation and lack of affordable housing.
About 100 local businesses applied for tables at the 40-minute event, a number so high that about half of them didn’t make the cut due to the cafeteria’s capacity.
Vineyard Wind plans to make the Island its operations and maintenance hub for the offshore wind development project. It hosted a recent jobs fair at the regional high school.
The Edgartown select board heard from Richard Andre and Erik Peckar of Vineyard Power, an Island-based nonprofit focused on renewable energy, to discuss an upcoming job fair hosted by Vineyard Wind.
Census recruiters are hard at work on the Island getting the word out to Islanders that jobs are still available for 2010 census takers. They set up a booth at the Portuguese American Club for the Big Chili Contest in late January, had a table near the finish line at last week’s road race, and have visited a handful of weekly community suppers to explain the process. And next week they will host their own event and information session at the Oak Bluffs Public Library to give Islanders one more chance to pick up some temporary work for the spring.
