{"id":11165,"date":"2016-04-16T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11165"},"modified":"2016-04-16T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T07:33:08","slug":"employers-are-looking-to-hire-more-than-175000-workers-across-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/04\/16\/employers-are-looking-to-hire-more-than-175000-workers-across-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers are looking to Hire more than 175,000 Workers across Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tennessee Unemployment Rate at 4.5% for March<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-327830\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tennessee-Department-of-Labor-and-Workforce-Development.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" width=\"250\" height=\"76\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee employers have tens of thousands of open positions for qualified applicants across the state.<\/p>\n<p>With Tennessee\u2019s latest unemployment rate at its lowest level since June 2007, there is an abundance of job openings across the state.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Job-Openings-Available-in-Tennessee-During-March-2016.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-341041\" title=\"Job Openings Available in Tennessee During March 2016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Job-Openings-Available-in-Tennessee-During-March-2016-480x205.jpg\" alt=\"Job Openings Available in Tennessee During March 2016\" width=\"480\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><!--more-->&#8220;With the continued decline in the state&#8217;s unemployment rate, workers have many opportunities available to them when looking for a job. In March, our Jobs4TN.gov website had over 175,000 job openings across the state\u2019s 95 counties,\u201d Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner, Burns Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee is divided into 13 Local Workforce Development Areas (LWDA). The state\u2019s metropolitan areas led the state in job openings. LWDA 9 is comprised of Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson and Trousdale counties and had the largest number of open positions in March with 53,401 jobs posted to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Jobs4TN.gov\" >www.Jobs4TN.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Job availability is not limited to Tennessee\u2019s larger cities. LWDA 2 had more than 6,600 jobs available in March and is comprised of smaller counties in east Tennessee. LWDA 11 and 12 in West Tennessee combined had just over 8,000 jobs posted on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Jobs4TN.gov\" >www.Jobs4TN.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam created <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Jobs4TN.gov\" >www.Jobs4TN.gov<\/a> to be the one place job seekers can visit and find all the tools they need to start a new career. The site offers multiple resources to Tennesseans who are searching for jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Unemployment Rate at 4.5% for March Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee employers have tens of thousands of open positions for qualified applicants across the state. With Tennessee\u2019s latest unemployment rate at its lowest level since June 2007, there is an abundance of job openings across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3359,8032,1907,3352,10869,284,2836,261,6060,3350,5303,2069,228,5455],"class_list":["post-11165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-bill-haslam","tag-burns-phillips","tag-davidson-county","tag-jobs","tag-jobs4govs","tag-nashville-tn","tag-rutherford-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-worforce-development","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-trousdale-county","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wilson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11166,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}