April 17, 2008

Minnesota Employment and Unemployment Release Minnesota's unemployment rate rose two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.7 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis. The number of jobs rose 5,200 or 0.2 percent over the month in March on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Every quarter MINNESOTAJOBS.COM awards a $1000 scholarship to a student attending or planning to attend a Minnesota school of higher learning. Our March 31st award recipient was Katherine Stiffler. She is attending Bethel University and is majoring in Biology. To learn more about our scholarships, please visit MINNESOTAJOBS.COM/scholarships.

Welcome to our new site. We thought we'd create a new blog too. As of today, the new MINNESOTAJOBS.COM is not fully operational. We are still adding features and testing. We hope to have it officially launched by the end of April. We're crossing our fingers. If you have ideas on how to make this a great site, please send your suggestions to admin at MINNESOTAJOBS.COM.