The California Employment Development Department — better known as the unemployment office — is hanging out the help wanted sign, with plans to hire 402 statewide, 30 in Orange County.
Loree Levy, EDD spokeswoman, says these are entry-level employment program representative jobs paying $16.25 to $24.55 an hour ($33,800 to $51,064 a year). EDD wants the people on the job by the end of March.
Here's the breakdown of positions statewide:
Los Angeles area: 140
Orange County area: 30
Bay Area: 60
San Diego area: 20
San Bernardino, Riverside, Redlands area: 36
San Jose: 35
Sacramento: 81
Despite a record number of unemployment insurance claims, Levy says the agency was held back in hiring because of a lag in federal funding until last July.
She says the pace of federal money for administering the unemployment insurance program began picking up in recent months, allowing EDD to hire 250. The 402 are additional hires. Depending on funding and attrition, Levy says the state may be looking for more people.
Unfortunately, the new hires won't make an immediate dent in the frustrating delays and hangups on the EDD's phone lines.
Levy says it takes five months to train a new hire on the intricacies of unemployment insurance. In addition, the agency experiences a constant loss of workers so it is often simply backfilling vacant positions. Levy says at one point last year, EDD had hired 138 people, but lost 100, mostly due to retirements and regular attrition.
If you're interested in applying for one of these EDD jobs go to the agency's Web site to check the qualifications for employment program representative and disability program representative. You then must take the online exam.
Note: Qualified employees from other state departments may get preference. EDD also can tap the surplus list of state workers who have been laid off.
Need a job? Looking for bargains? Facing financial setbacks? Visit the O.C. Register's Web page on Handling Hard Times.
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huh
Sounds like temp positions to me.
'EDD also can tap the surplus list of state workers who have been laid off.'
What state workers have been laid off?
Well, hey . . those big elite bank CEO's that donate to the GOP who received GW's bottomless pits of tax dollars are hiring too!
The tens of thousands of Americans they laid off at the banks left vacancies at their desks. Those banker boys have advertised over 25,000 job openings . . . overseas . . . and have applied for over 25,000 foreign worker visas from the Department of Immigration to replace those unemployed Americans' jobs.
After all, who would give an American tax payer a job that could pay taxes so that banks can continue pimping the American tax payers, rigiht?
This info is as useless as the Census Bureau jobs. The jobs aren't till 2010 and only temporary and meant to be done around your full time job. They also said they would be calling at the end of January or beginning of February for interviews, yet no one I know has been contacted.
For this job you MUST have worked for the EDD for four years, worked for the EDD for one year as a EDD assistant, 90 college units, or a Bachelors degree. Personally I couldn't imagine paying all that money to go to college to get a crappy job making $16 an hour. I was making that much money as a carpenter 15 years ago with NO degree and ONLY 1 year experience.
The problem out there is that there are no jobs and dangling a rotten carrot in front of people like this is cruel. Most people won't meet the requirements because they are too extensive for what amounts to a menial job.
I love the irony
Sounds like you might be unemployed Pissed Off and Pissed Off about it.
so....all these layoffs are actually creating new jobs?