Jobs For Connecticut Now

“So you’re thinking about starting your own business? Many new entrepreneurs focus solely on their business ideas during the startup process—and rightfully so. But what about those less exciting yet important business decisions that could dramatically affect your performance or your bottom line?” Read more

“Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Tuesday evening said he’s “not about to waste any moment” to reverse 22 years of job loss in the state and make the state a place where businesses will grow and students will thrive.” Read more

From INC.com: “Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers… they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities.

A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance.” Read more

In an opinion piece by Jon Gertner that ran in the New York Times on 2/26, the subject was innovation and it brought up an interesting question – is  the period of true advancement and trailblazing over?

“Innovation is what America has always been about,” President Obama remarked in his recent State of the Union address. It’s hard to disagree, isn’t it? We live in a world dominated by innovative American companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. And even in the face of a recession, Silicon Valley’s relentless entrepreneurs have continued to churn out start-up companies with outsize, world-changing ambitions.” Read more

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told the leaders of small towns today that in his first full year in office he fulfilled his vow, made to them last year, not to balance the state’s budget on their backs.

“What a difference a year makes,” Malloy told about 200 people, many of them local leaders from Connecticut’s 169 towns who gathered in Cromwell for the annual meeting of Connecticut Council of Small Towns. Read more

“Legally mandated paid sick days for workers would stamp out billions of dollars worth of productivity and potentially 16,000 jobs over five years, according to a new report issued by a small-business advocacy group that has long opposed legislation that would guarantee Massachusetts employees up to a week of sick time.” Read more

Connecticut – “Hartford is trying to recapture its status as the nation’s insurance capital by drawing in a specialized insurance business that is finding a home elsewhere.” Read more

Andover, Massachusetts-based Quiet Logistics plans to expand its warehouse operations in Devens and add hundreds of jobs with the help of up to $2.5 million in financing from the state. Read more

From 60Minutes (2/19): “Meet the new underclass — the four million Americans who have been unemployed for more than a year. With every additional week out of work, their chances of finding a job dwindle. It turns out that many employers don’t want to hire the currently unemployed. Enter Joe Carbone , who is determined to return the American dream to the long-term unemployed in Connecticut. And he’s succeeding, one job at a time.” Read more.

When the government awards tax breaks to companies in exchange for a promise to create jobs, it does not always work out. But a western Massachusetts manufacturing company that is steeped in history says it kept its end of the bargain, and created the jobs it promised for the tax breaks it received. WAMC”s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill reports. Read More