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Monday, April 16, 2012
NEW YORK—Huffington Post senior military correspondent David Wood has spent decades covering war, watching as wounded combat troops are loaded onto medical evacuation helicopters and, he said, “go off in a cloud of dust.” But after their sacrifice on the battlefield, Wood said, “you never know what happened to them.”
So for eight months this past year, Wood reported extensively on the lives of severely wounded veterans and their families in “Beyond the Battlefield”, a 10-part series awarded Monday with the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. Wood’s Pulitzer marks the first win for the seven-year-old Huffington Post and a milestone in the influential Pulitzer committee’s recognition of online-only news organizations.
“We are delighted and deeply honored by the award, which recognizes both David’s exemplary piece of purposeful journalism and HuffPost’s commitment to original reporting that affects both the national conversation and the lives of real people,” said Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group. “From the beginning, one of the core pillars of HuffPost’s editorial philosophy has been to use narrative and storytelling to put flesh and blood on data and statistics, and to help bear witness to the struggles faced by millions of Americans. We are very grateful to have won for this series, the culmination of David Wood’s long career as a military correspondent, and an affirmation that great journalism is thriving on the Web.”
Wood, 66, began his journalism career in 1970 as an editor for the Pioneer Press chain in Illinois. In 1977, he started covering guerrilla wars in Africa as Time magazine’s Nairobi bureau chief, later reporting on the military, national security and foreign affairs for the now-shuttered Washington Star, Los Angeles Times, Newhouse News Service, Baltimore Sun and AOL’s PoliticsDaily site. Wood, who was previously a Pulitzer finalist, has covered conflicts in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Central America. Most recently, he has made several trips to the front in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Shortly after joining The Huffington Post in early 2011, Wood began having discussions with executive editor Timothy O’Brien about the “Beyond the Battlefield” series.”
Early in the reporting process, Wood said, he wasn’t quite sure how to approach veterans wounded on the battlefield. “One of the first things I learned is that these young men and women who are severely wounded want you to notice them and want you to ask what happened,” Wood said.
Indeed, Wood said, veterans “want to tell their story because they view their wounds as medals of honor, symbols of their sacrifice.”
He began reporting the series in March for publication in October, with an ebook following in December that compiled its original stories and added new chapters. During that time, Wood spoke with numerous veterans and their families, often being passed along directly to another family within the tight-knit community. “They’re all connected and it’s really interesting, and I just feel so, so proud that they accepted me into their community and let me tell their stories,” Wood said.
Wood said that “telling their stories just became a huge mission of honor for me.”
O’Brien praised Wood’s dedication to telling the stories of veterans and their families.
“This Pulitzer is a recognition of decades of dedicated, courageous work by David Wood, and of the great insight and sensitivity he’s brought to the plight of severely wounded soldiers and the very human tragedy of modern warfare,” O’Brien said. “We’re also grateful that the Pulitzer committee recognized that great, hard-won journalism can thrive and flourish on the web.”
Some media watchers said the Pulitzer committee’s recognition of The Huffington Post represents a milestone for the organization and digital news outlets in general.
Rem Rieder, editor of the American Journalism Review, said the award is “quite a benchmark in the evolution of The Huffington Post, which early on, had plenty of aggregation and plenty of opinion and no original reporting.” He specifically praised the hiring of Wood, saying that it’s “terrific that there are emerging newish outlets where not only talented young reporters, but experienced older reporters, have the chance to showcase ambitious work.”
“I think it’s very healthy to see the Pulitzers have moved, albeit slowly, from a solely print focus,” Rieder said. “The world has changed dramatically. There’s an awful lot of exciting developments with digital news operations.”
In recent years, the Pulitzer board has bestowed honors on newer outlets, such as ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that often teams up with established news organizations, and PolitiFact, a project of the Tampa Bay Times. Politico, a five-year-old newspaper and web site, took home its first Pulitzer prize Monday for Matt Wuerker’s editorial cartoons. Still, a win in national reporting by an online-only news site is a departure from the typical list of legacy news outlets who clean up at the Pulitzers year after year.
NYU professor Jay Rosen said in an email that “today’s news will be read as a symbolic crossing point,” but noted that “it is just further along on a trajectory that began several years back when the Huffington Post started hiring reporters,” along with “brand name journalists” like Dan Froomkin (Washington Post), Howard Fineman (Newsweek), and Peter Goodman and O’Brien (The New York Times). “The Pulitzer may say ‘welcome to the club,’ but the bid for membership started a while ago,” he said.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
As private and public enterprises pursue renewable energy projects, wind harnessing has been touted as a strong force in the industry. Whether the massive turbines make an appearance on federal land, an inland farm to help prop up profits, an island former plantation, or the Outer Continental Shelf in the Atlantic Ocean, captured wind continues to grow as a clean source of energy.
The U.S. Army is leading the march for renewable energy with a goal of 25 percent clean power by 2025. The Army Corps of Engineers has set up the Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF) as of September, 2011 to help meet the deadline.
“The military has recognized its overreliance on fossil fuels,” said Jon Powers, Director of Outreach for EITF. “The significant strides toward renewable power are seen as operation-necessary, financially prudent, and mission-critical.”
With the increasing cost per barrel of oil and the high rate of water and gas resupply to convoys in combat zones, it is in the Army, Department of Defense, and taxpayers’ interest to invest in clean energy, said Powers.
In addition to the 168 current renewable projects, which include solar, wind, and geothermal, the Army has a Net Zero goal. This means that bases are to be designed with zero water and enegy waste. Currently, 17 pilot projects are set to go live by 2020.
Pew Charitable Trusts predicts that the Department of Defense will be spending more than $10 billion annually for clean energy projects. Currently, $7 billion is slated over the next ten years for various projects, including wind. The primary contract will be power purchase agreements, a now-common practice in the industry.
“It is the intent of the government only to purchase the energy that is produced, and not to acquire any generation assets. The contractors will finance, design, build, operate, own, and maintain the energy plants. The government will contract to purchase the power for up to 30 years in accordance with the terms and conditions stipulated in site or project specific agreements,” a statement by the Army Corps of Engineers reported.
The government is supporting wind harvesting in other ways. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), in cooperation with the Department of Interior’s “Smart from the Start” wind energy initiative, is taking steps to develop wind farms along the North Atlantic coast. An initiative by the Obama Administration has set a goal of 10 gigawatts of wind capacity for the Outer Continental Shelf.
“Offshore Atlantic winds alone could produce an estimated 1,000 gigawatts of energy,” said a BOEM spokesperson. “Offshore winds tend to flow at higher sustained speeds than onshore winds, making these turbines more efficient.”
As with any project, there are unforeseen consequences to offshore wind harnessing. Fisheries can be affected as well as environmental concerns such as the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. Additionally, vessel traffic and cultural shore resources in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are issues for stakeholders in those communities.
“BOEM collaborates with coastal states, tribes, industry leaders, non-governmental organizations, and intergovernmental task forces to coordinate offshore renewable energy development,” said the BOEM spokesperson. “These task forces include federal and state agencies, local governments, and tribes to ensure that stakeholder concerns are addressed during initial planning stages, promoting responsible development with minimal impacts.”
Islands also have the advantage of strong ocean winds, and First Wind, a US-based wind energy capacity, will soon open the largest wind facility in Hawaiir. The 69-megawatt Kawailoa Wind project will be built on the Kamehameha Schools’ Kawiloa Plantation lands on Oahu’s north shore. The site will feature 30 2.3 megawatt Siemens wind turbines, which will generate enough energy to power 14,500 homes or five percent of Oahu’s annual demand.
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Monday, April 09, 2012
It’s that time of the year when a student’s fancy turns to summer—as in, “What am I going to do to earn a few bucks?”
Hunting for a summer job—or a permanent position now that sheepskin is in hand—has been no fun for the last few years with the economy struggling to recover from the mortgage meltdown and ensuing recession.
But with government figures showing things looking up, the hunt this year could prove more fruitful.
Just because the job market is opening up, however, doesn’t mean the search will be easy—even if a jobseeker has all the skills necessary for a particular position.
Even if an interviewee does everything right, negative material on Facebook or other social networking sites can put a monkey wrench in job-seeking efforts.
Recent reports have indicated more employers are demanding full access to candidates’ Facebook accounts—something Facebook is against.
The outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said it is unclear how widespread the practice is and though it advises people to refuse to give their usernames and passwords, not doing so may nix a job offer.
“It is important to understand that more and more employers are looking at whatever they can to inform the hiring decision,” Chief Executive Officer John A. Challenger said in a release. “Whether it is a photo from a college party posted on Facebook or incendiary comment on Twitter, employers are looking for anything that reveals more than candidates typically share in interviews. Even a seemingly innocent remark on some social or political issue could put your candidacy at risk, if the hiring manager doesn’t happen to agree with your point of view.”
“Like any competition, beating others out for a dream job requires preparation. A successful interview takes more than an impressive resume and answering the interviewer’s questions. All applicants will have the technical skills needed for the job; it will be little things that count and set people apart,” said etiquette expert Anthony Cawdron, who has put together a list of actions sure to torpedo any chance for a job.
No. 1 is playing with a smartphone while waiting to be interviewed.
“Employers expect you to focus on the task at hand; this also applies to your interview,” Cawdron said in a release. “Remember you are always being observed and not just by your interviewer.” He advises leaving it in the car.
Invited to lunch? Don’t make a pig of yourself.
“Often when companies take a job candidate to lunch, they are looking to see how they would perform as a host to others. They want to know if you are able to take care of their clients,” Cawdron said. And never order a drink.
Also among the no-nos is failing to learn about the company. That may be a reflection of poor research skills.
Making the interviewer do all the work is a mistake.
“Realistically, this also is an opportunity for you to interview the company. By asking questions, you show interest in the company and can better judge if the job and the environment are a good fit for you,” Cawdron said. Just don’t make it an interrogation.
“Make conversation rather than having a question-and-answer session. You will feel more at ease and the interviewer will get a better sense of the kind of person you are and the skills you would bring to the company,” he said.
And, of course, saying thanks is a must but don’t go overboard.
“I once heard a story of how someone sent a thank-you and flowers to the interviewer’s house. Their strategy was inappropriate,” Cawdron said.
The jobs site Careerbuilder surveyed human resource managers this year to find out what they get most peeved about during interviews.
The biggest mistakes candidates made were:
-- Answering cell phone or texting: 77 percent
-- Appearing disinterested: 75 percent
-- Dressing inappropriately: 72 percent
-- Appearing arrogant: 72 percent
-- Talking negatively about current or previous employers: 67 percent
-- Chewing gum: 63 percent
Among the most memorable interview moments, HR managers said were:
-- The candidate who brought a “how to interview” book with him to the interview.
-- The candidate who asked, “What company is this again?”
-- The candidate who put the interviewer on hold during a phone interview to set up a date set up for Friday.
-- The candidate who painted graffiti on the building when he wasn’t hired on the spot for a security job.
-- The candidate wore who wore a Boy Scout uniform and never told interviewers why.
-- The candidate who was arrested during the interview when the background check turned up an outstanding federal warrant.
-- The candidate who talked about the importance of promptness after having been 10 minutes late.
-- The candidate who passed, cut-off and flipped his middle finger at a driver who happened to be the interviewer.
-- The candidate who referred to himself in the third person.
-- The candidate who took off his shoes during the interview.
-- The candidate who asked for a sip of the interviewer’s coffee.
-- The candidate who told the interviewer she wasn’t sure if the job offered was worth “starting the car for.”
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Monday, April 09, 2012
A steadily recovering Central Texas labor market may mean improved job opportunities for this year’s graduating class.
According to a report issued last week by the Texas Workforce Commission, more than 20,000 jobs have been created in the Austin area since this time last year.
Unemployment rates have also continued to fall from 6.8 percent last February to 6.1 percent, well below the national unemployment rate of 8.3 percent.
Except for shrinking government jobs, growth occurred in all 11 sectors of the local economy identified by the report. The largest job creation occurred in leisure and hospitality, and education and health services, which together account for almost 52 percent of the growth in the report.
In terms of employing the local population, the largest sectors of the Austin area economy are still information technology at 21 percent, utilities and transportation at 17 percent and professional business services at 15 percent.
Mark Lavergne, spokesman for the Texas Workforce Commission, said these were encouraging signs for people looking into the job market, and growth could open positions for students with college degrees.
“Just about all of the major industries have grown in the last year, and this is encouraging for any student taking that next step into the workforce,” Lavergne said. “It’s always preferable to graduate into a growing job market.”
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Monday, April 09, 2012
A pilot program aimed to help returning veterans work in the agriculture industry had its first meetings with interested parties late last month.
Free workshops were held in Manhattan and Overland Park to connect veterans with agriculture professionals and present them with financial and resource opportunities. These were the first of several workshops to be held in Kansas and surrounding states to help veterans who are either unable to work in other environments or are looking for labor in more rural areas.
The Veteran Farmers Project is funded by the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency and the Center for Rural Affairs in Nebraska and supported by farm groups mostly in the Midwest. Its goal is to provide individualized guidance to help each veteran reach their vision, whether it be working with raspberries, organic food, cattle, or conventional crops.
Additional workshops in the Midwest in the works and farm tours are planned for this summer.
“When it comes to agriculture, you can do just about anything,” Nick Levendofsky, special projects coordinator of the Kansas Farmers Union, said. “It’s going to cover a pretty wide area and we want to pinpoint each individual and work with them and figure out the best way to go about this.”
Many agricultural operations are difficult to sustain on a first-generational basis. Most would be on a small number of acres, and it is the hope of the program organizers that individuals already in the business would be wiling to mentor the veterans. Some of these mentors could be retiring farmers without a next generation to take over their operations.
“I think it’s extremely important because this is something new for (the veterans) and they need somebody to help them through the process, even if it’s just answering questions or offering them support,” he said. “It’s going to be a matter of focusing on exactly where each individual wants to be, where their goals and aspirations are, and helping them attain those goals. I think that might be a great opportunity for some.”
This is important for the 40 percent of returning veterans nationwide Levendofsky said want to return to rural areas.
“Employment is an issue, not just for veterans, but for all people right now,” Levendofsky said.
And as opposed to many of those looking for jobs, those in this program are often suffering from post-traumatic stress or mild traumatic injuries.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
David Regan, an Army combat engineer, was once diagnosed as paralyzed for life after an injury in January 2009. He spent three months in a coma and endured numerous surgeries.
Today, he bears no noticeable disability, holds a steady job at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park and is an example, labor officials say, of how returning veterans are often the best hires.
They know how to follow orders, even if it means running into a firefight, officials said. They’re disciplined, tough and well-trained.
“We have everything that you’re looking for,” said Javid Benson, who spent 15 years in the Navy and works at the air station with Regan. “We’ve got motivation, dedication, knowledge and skills, but most of all we’re leaders. We are the people you can rely on.”
Alan Crawley, the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation’s local veterans employment representative, said he works with a list of about 1,000 veterans who are seeking employment after returning home from overseas service.
That’s about 10 percent of the roughly 10,500 unemployed residents of Southern Maryland, according to statistics recorded for January on the labor department’s Web site. Southern Maryland has an unemployment rate of 5.8 percent, while the state’s is 7 percent, for a total of 212,060 unemployed residents, according to the figures.
Now, as the war in Afghanistan winds down, new state and regional initiatives aim to reduce the number of out-of-work veterans. The program would help veterans find work, but another target is the civilian employers, many of whom don’t understand the vast abilities many vets have.
The initiative, launched by a group called Leadership Maryland, began March 26 at Patuxent High School in an event that featured local business people, state and federal representatives and veterans. Upcoming events are scheduled at four other locations across the state this spring.
“This opportunity is a very worthwhile one, the opportunity to honor people in the military or who have left the military and to hire veterans in our community,” said Calvert County School Superintendent Jack Smith, who is working on the program.
During the next three years, more than 100,000 troops will return to the civilian work force from overseas, Leadership Maryland’s Navy Vice Admiral David Architzel of NAVAIR said, and some will join the 960,000 veterans who already call Maryland home and will be looking for work.
He cited a Syracuse University study conducted last month that emphasizes the skills veterans bring to the workforce. In the military, they learn entrepreneurial skills, team-building and how to work in diverse settings, and more employers need to recognize that, he said.
“I hope together we can make Maryland a shining example for others to emulate,” Architzel said.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The nation’s 22 million military veterans would receive more federal funding for health care, fighting homelessness and finding jobs under President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The plan calls for VA spending to grow 10.5 percent to $140.3 billion in the next fiscal year, up from $126.9 billion this fiscal year. The proposal comes as other segments of the military prepare for big cuts.
The White House wants to spend more on mental health services, health care needs of women veterans, and $1 billion over five years on a Veterans Jobs Corps to put 20,000 former soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to work.
The jobs would focus on building roads and trails on public lands.
The budget places a priority on medical research in traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and suicide prevention. It also designates $1.4 billion, a 33 percent increase, to battle homelessness among veterans, and more money on vocational rehabilitation and employment for wounded or ill service members transitioning to the civilian work force.
“It’s good news,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who noted much of the federal budget faces proposed cuts. “The president has done the right thing and made sure veterans are not just protected, but see some real upgrades.”
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio and a Senate Armed Services Committee member, said he’s “committed to ensuring that our veterans have access to the quality care they deserve. I will thoroughly review the (Obama) administration’s plan for the VA to ensure that the department is run as effectively as possible.”
A surge of 610,000 men and women from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the nation’s other 21 million veterans, are expected to seek VA services.
U.S. Army veteran Don McCauley, 79, of Beavercreek, said more dollars makes sense for Miami Valley veterans returning from two wars overseas.
“I think that’s very good because they have all these guys coming home and it’s going to make it harder on the VA and they need all the money they can get,” said McCauley, a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8312 in Beavercreek.
Herbert Davis, executive director of the Montgomery County Veteran Services Commission, said the president’s intiatives are “much needed.”
“We have far too many veterans who are falling through the cracks and are in homeless situations and in need,” he said.
Tom Istvan, 66, of Huber Heights, called the proposed budget increase an election-year decision.
“I think he’s just trying to get some favor with veterans,” said Istvan, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Huber Heights chapter and an Air Force veteran. “When he first got elected, veterans were no big deal to him.”
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Strike up the band. Break out the confetti. The market’s going to love this. The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent and non-farm jobs grew by 243,000 in January.
This morning’s monthly report from the U.S. Department of Labor blasted through even the most optimistic of expectations. The jobs gain would have been the largest since May 2010, except that the Labor Department’s data group adjusted 2011′s jobs numbers. Now, only March (+246,000) and April (+251,000) had stronger numbers.
January is the second consecutive month to beat estimates. Economists predicted anywhere from MarketWatch’s tepid 121,000 to the more optimistic 182,000 in the Bloomberg survey. None of the widely reported surveys saw a decline in the unemployment rate.
Indeed, the unemployment rate, which has been declining very slowly since hitting a peak of 10.1 percent in late 2009, is now at the lowest point since February 2009. The government report also put the number of unemployed at 12.8 million. A year ago it was at 13.9 million.
While governments continued to cut jobs — federal jobs were cut by 6,000 and local government cut 11,000 positions — the private sector added 257,000. This was more than 50 percent higher than the ADP estimate earlier in the week.
Most sectors added jobs. Manufacturing accounted for 50,000 new jobs. The services sector as a whole added 176,000 workers, with much of the gain coming in what the government calls “professional and business services.” This includes temp workers and employment services (+33,200) and accounting and bookkeeping services (+12,500), likely due to ramping up for tax season.
Healthcare, a consistent growth area, was up by 30,900 positions. Leisure and hospitality, another growth area for several months, was up by 44,000. Even the battered construction industry managed to add 21,000 jobs during the month.
Only finance (off by 5,000 jobs) and the Information sector (-13,000) lost workers. The latter sector includes far more worker categories than computer professionals and data processing, although these areas also lost workers. The bulk of the loss — 7,900 — came in the motion picture and recording industry.
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
National Parks Director Jon Jarvis made the statement last week, “Let’s prepare our parks for 1 million returning veterans and their families.” Now, President Obama is proposing that we get them ready ourselves through a $1 billion proposal to put up to 20,000 veterans to work over the next five years in our country’s great outdoors.
Later today, the president will be announcing this proposal through the development of the Veteran Job Corps. Obama is following up on his promises made during the State of the Union Address to help returning veterans find pathways to civilian employment.
Let’s review the numbers one more time:
• $1 billion
• Five years
• Up to 20,000 jobs
Is anyone else as excited as I am? Thank you Mr. President!
We did not, at least of most of us did not, join the military to sit inside an office. Here’s our chance to stay outside of a cubicle for a few more years working to rebuild visitor programs, habitat restoration, driving back invasive species, operating facilities, and no doubt smashing into the deferred maintenance of roads, recreation infrastructure, levees, and trails on your public lands.
We should take a minute and relish in the fact that the president, the Department of Interior, and the nation as a whole, are beginning to recognize the value of time in the wilderness and great outdoors to our veteran population.
It’s just a proposal right now, but it’s a proposal that if and when it becomes reality, should help put a huge number of veterans from the battlefield into nature. Its also a nod to the many, many dedicated Department of Interior employees, non-profits, state and community agencies, funders, sponsors, and others, who have been leading the way for several years working hard to prove the efficacy of time and work outdoors to help integrate our veteran population home from war.
A short list of those organizations that helped to give birth to this proposal (and dozens should be listed):
• Veterans Green Corps (Veterans Green Jobs)
• Southwest Conservation Corps
• Veterans Conservation Corps (Washington State)
Additionally, efforts by the Sierra Club, whose funding reinvigorated Outward Bound’s veteran expeditions program in 2006 and supported the National Military Families Operation Purple ® Family Retreats and Youth Camps played their part. America is taking notice and your leadership in boots, combat boots, hiking boots, or work boots is the leadership America needs.
America invested in us to make us the world’s best fighting force. Let’s make sure America’s next investment bears great fruit. Let’s use this as an opportunity to continue to leverage other programs developed on our behalf to get us back to work, including entrepreneurship training, veterans hiring tax credits, and the challenge to the private sector to hire or train 100,000 veterans and their spouses by 2013.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
HYDE PARK — There’s a growing demand for well-trained staff in the food industry, but culinary students still face a tight job market.
More than 800 students and alumni rubbed elbows Tuesday at the largest career fair held at the Culinary Institute of America in four years. Perusing rows of information booths set up by 275 job recruiters from around the country, students set their hopes on finding employment as restaurant managers, waiters, waitresses, bakers, pastry chefs and sous chefs. In 2009, the career fair drew only 35 recruiters, said Wendy Higgins, CIA’s director of career services.
“This would have been normal attendance before the recession,” Higgins said. “The hospitality side of the economy is looking up.”
Nineteen-year-old Kierstin Wainwright of Brick, N.J., is getting ready graduate in April with an associate degree.
“I really need to get a job,” Wainwright said. “I have student loans that I have to start paying six months after I graduate.”
While jobs still exist for graduates fresh out of culinary school, they are fewer and lower in pay, said John Griffin, president of the Mid-Hudson chapter of the American Culinary Federation.
“Before the recession, a culinary student could have gotten a job anywhere,” he said. “Nowadays, it’s much more difficult to find one and to find one that pays well.”
Griffin said a grad could expect to find a job at a restaurant that paid around $40,000 a year.
“That’s generous,” he said, adding that externships were usually available to students for low or no pay.
Employers at the fair said they were looking to hire students with basic knife skills, knowledge in culinary math and general “coachability.”
“I generally look for someone with some experience,” said Bryan Tobias, owner of Portofino Ristorante in Staatsburg.
Though he stopped hiring briefly in 2008, Tobias said, business has picked up at his restaurant every year since.
“I had my best year ever last year,” he said.
Other employers spoke of plans to hire large numbers.
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