Baltimore Job Market

Baltimore Job Market: What Is Empower Baltimore?

Baltimore is seeing a population decline. It is seeing more people move out due to the lack of jobs or to move to suburban areas. One of the biggest factors to improving the economic conditions within the city is to encourage jobs to move in. In Baltimore, there are many ways this can happen, including by creating better jobs in the area. Empower Baltimore is one organization that is working to grow and expand human capital in the city. You could be a part of its plan.

What Is It?

Empower Baltimore is a nonprofit group that is working through a 10 year strategy plan that is designed to develop economic opportunities within the city. The Baltimore Empowerment Zone program is meant to make a change to the market for good. The goal is to create safe environments that are neighborhoods were people can find a job, live safely and to expand their futures. Read more about Baltimore Job Market: What Is Empower Baltimore?

Baltimore Job Market: The Baltimore Sun's List of Top Employers

The Baltimore Sun recently released its list of the city's top workplaces in the 2011 year. These are, according to the newspaper, the best places to work based on the feedback from employees. Is your employer one of the best in the city? On the other hand, are you looking for a job in Baltimore because you want to get away from the less-than-ideal employer you have right now? That is really the bottom line.

Top Companies

Who does the Baltimore Sun say are the best employers in the city? Coming in at the top of the list is one of the city's largest employers, FutureCare. It runs 12 skilled nursing centers in the area. The top medium sized business is Praxis Engineering Technologies. Most of its 200 plus employees are offsite and embedded with clients. It continues to grow and expand. In small businesses, BTS comes in at top. It is a smaller technology firm in the city and provides it employees with ample benefits. Read more about Baltimore Job Market: The Baltimore Sun's List of Top Employers

Baltimore Job Market Positive News

Could 2012 finally be the breaking point where the Baltimore job market begins to see significant improvement? According to some economists, the state could see a significant influx of jobs in the coming year and that could mean putting many Americans back to work in positions they want to be in rather than just temporary positions.

Morgan Stanley and Baltimore Job Market: What's the Deal?

The news that Morgan Stanley is planning to cut some 1600 jobs is worrying many of those working for the agency in the Baltimore job market. The problem is, the company has not stated how the job cuts will impact the Baltimore job market. The company has said it plans to cut some 1600 jobs in the early portion of 2012, though. That is enough to get many people worried.

Governor Working on Jobs

The Governor came together with a group of business professionals from the state to work on improving the state's jobs. The problem is, there are many different opinions about what the area needs to do about jobs and job creation. Gov. Martin O'Malley and top cabinet members came together in the 2012 Symposium on Job Creation to discuss just that. However, not everyone is agreeing with the plans in place.

Using Occupy Baltimore

Just as is the case all over the country there are people who are picketing and making a statement about how bad the economy is by picketing in the major city centers of major cities. This is not to say that what they are doing is not making a good point and that they are simply exercising their rights to free speech but there may be better ways to channel their energy towards making things better as opposed to simply complaining about what is wrong.

The Baltimore Job Market Takes a Hit with Exelon Corp Cut

News isn't so bright for much of the Baltimore job market. Exelon Corporation and Constellation Energy Group Inc will be merging - that is not the news portion, though. Rather, the overseeing group reported to the state's energy regulators that the merger would result in a planned cut to 600 jobs. That will seriously hurt the already fragile Baltimore market and cause numerous tensions throughout the industry in the state.

However, it is not clear if all of the job cuts and position eliminations will be in Baltimore or at any of the company's other locations. The Exelon officials did note that many of the job cuts will occur within the city, with the elimination of vacant jobs being the primary step the company takes.

1500 Job Cuts in Maryland

Superfresh markets aren’t doing so hot these days—especially in the Maryland area, where 22 stores will be closing soon. A federal bankruptcy court awarded Superfresh permission to sell the stores, and the company is doing just that—resulting in nearly 1,500 job losses.

The stores have not been closed yet, but are being auctioned off soon—and if they are purchased by willing buyers, the employees could find employment with whichever businesses end up buying the stores. Keep your fingers crossed for the employees of Superfresh; hopefully they will all find jobs, either with the new buyers or elsewhere, soon. Read more about 1500 Job Cuts in Maryland

Work for Love Drop!

If you’ve been following Love Drop over at the 360 Blog, you already know that this team does some pretty amazing things. Every month, Love Drop sponsors a family in need, and though they’ve only been around for a few months, they are changing the world. Read more about Work for Love Drop!

Baltimore Jobs - Where are you?

For some of you who might see this - you can probably relate to the question in the title. After many months of searching you might be at the end of the line and ready to give up. The unemployment rate in Baltimore before the big Holiday season was staying around 7.6% - which is lower than the national average but still much higher than anyone looking for work would like to see. I understand this is a stressful time to be looking for work and I wanted to share a few resources and ideas that might help you land your next big gig. Read more about Baltimore Jobs - Where are you?