More summer jobs? Maybe, with more competition The State
01.05.10
Arden Korn, who owns Little Lambs & Ivy II children's clothing store on Devine Street, is getting three to four times the number of summer applications this year that she has in the past.
And many of them are coming from an older, more experienced crowd - and for the first time, from men.
"I'm seeing people who on their resumes are just fantastic," she said. "They are just looking for employment, plain and simple."
Jobs have been scarce in the past couple of years as a deep recession forced private employers and government agencies to slash their work force, pushing unemployment levels close to a record 13 percent in South Carolina.
But as economic conditions begin to improve, fewer employers are laying off workers, and some are beginning to hire again.
The job count statewide was up nearly 16,000 in March from February, according to statistics from the S.C. Employment Security Commission. The leisure and hospitality and retail industries saw big bumps.
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