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The warehouse area at Wayfair in Ogden. The Boston-based company opened its Westen region customer care and distribution center in Ogden last year and is planning on expanding its warehouse, hiring about 100 more employees before the end of 2012.

Wayfair booming, expanding Ogden center

OGDEN -- After just one year in the city, Wayfair LLC is expanding its Ogden warehouse and looking to hire more than 100 employees before the year is out.

One of the largest online retailers of home furnishings in the U.S., Wayfair sells and ships home products, including items such as furniture, cookware and lighting.

Formerly known as CSN stores, the Boston-based company opened its Western region customer care and distribution center in Ogden on May 23, 2011.

Ogden seeks savings with city government job shuffle

OGDEN -- Changes are on the horizon for the Ogden City administrative staff.

Free career prep workshops set in Layton

LAYTON — Broadview University in Layton on Friday will host a series of free workshops on career preparation.

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The closed La-Z-Boy furniture plant in Tremonton is pictured on Tuesday. The plant closed in 2008, laying off over 600 people.

Box Elder official works to create jobs, fill empty buildings

BRIGHAM CITY -- Mitch Zundel hates to see empty buildings.

Like Tremonton's former La-Z-Boy plant, which in 2005 shifted its manufacturing operations to Mexico, leaving 630 residents of northern Utah out of a job.

Or the last few years' layoffs at Corinne's ATK. "ATK has some empty buildings," he says.

As Box Elder County's new director of economic development, that's his main responsibility: filling buildings. And jobs.

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Northridge High School ProStart student Brenden Barrett (right) listens to Chef Elio Scanu explain the characteristics of a perfect brick oven Italian pizza at Zucca Trattoria in South Ogden on Tuesday.

High school culinary students get first-hand look at profession

SOUTH OGDEN -- Jordan Townsend used a long steel paddle to slide students' pizzas into the brick pizza oven, heated with red oak to more than 500 degrees.

Two or three minutes later, Townsend used a different paddle to draw out the golden disks, topped with fresh ground tomatoes, bubbling cheese, and sprinklings of olives, roasted vegetables, meats and cheeses.

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The building at 2314 Washington Blvd was recently purchased and will house an Ogden City mobile apps lab. The city teamed up with Weber State University to develop the program and received city and federal funding to purchase and renovate the space.

Ogden, Weber State team up in opening of app lab

OGDEN -- The city is teaming up with Weber State University to bring one of the world's fastest growing industries to Ogden.

Ogden's Community and Economic Development staff has been working with representatives from the WSU Research Foundation to create a program that will develop mobile application software for electronic devices like tablets, iPads, iPhones, and other smartphones.

Ogden promotes 2 to deputy fire chief

OGDEN — The Ogden City Fire Department promoted Eric Bauman and Matt Schwenk to deputy chief this week, filling vacancies left by retirement.

Bauman has 18 years of experience, most spent as a firefighter-paramedic. He also spent 12 years as a flight paramedic for Air-Med and has been a faculty instructor at Weber State University, teaching emergency care and rescue courses.

Utah jobless rate slightly up at 5.8 percent

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's unemployment rate has ticked up to 5.8 percent in March, a slight increase from February's 5.7 percent jobless rate.

States offered jobless test plan

States offered jobless test plan

By JIM KUHNHENN

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is looking for states that will experiment with unemployment insurance programs by letting people test a job while still receiving benefits.

The plan is a key feature of a payroll tax cut package that President Barack Obama negotiated with congressional Republicans in February.

The Labor Department recently opened the application process for 10 model projects across the country.

Veterans push to get job credit for military experience

When is a combat medic no longer a skilled medical professional? When is a tank driver no longer qualified to operate heavy equipment? When is a troop division commander too inexperienced to be a security guard at a bank?

When they're newly minted veterans.

7 mistakes that get job-seekers overlooked

Lance Wallace, an employee of the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation -- Division of Rehabilitation Services, often uses what is known as the "7 Little-Known Reasons You're Not Getting Hired" as he works with job seekers.

They are worth sharing.

Optimism leads to success in business

To be successful in whatever field you are in, it is necessary to develop and keep a positive mindset. People want to deal with others who are positive, motivating, inspiring and enjoyable to be around. Optimism attracts success.

Companies hire and promote employees who see opportunities in difficult situations. Positive people radiate an energy that makes others see them as more competent, creative, resilient and better performers.

Being positive is not always easy because there are so many negatives around us today. You may need to learn and practice strategies that will keep you positive and focused on your goals and aspirations.

Bridgette Berkeley takes care of a patient in the ICU at Ogden Regional Medical Center recently. She graduated in July and says she knows she’s lucky to have gotten a job in her field so quickly. One thing that helped was that hospital officials knew her work ethic, as she worked as a secretary and a nursing assistant at the hospital while in school. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Economy hides possible impending shortage of nurses

SOUTH OGDEN — When Bridgette Berkeley goes to work as an intensive care unit nurse at Ogden Regional Medical Center, she feels fortunate.

A July nursing graduate from Stevens-Henager College, Berkeley said she’s bucking the trend to already have the job she wants such a short time after graduation.

Job success stems from telling good stories to self

It is the stories we tell ourselves that create the emotional foundation that ultimately makes up our lives, our successes and our failures. Storytelling, to ourselves and to others, is something we all do and humans have done for thousands of years.

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2012 file photo, the company logo is displayed at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 announced that the company is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company. The cuts announced Wednesday represent about 14 percent of the 14,100 workers employed by Yahoo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Yahoo dumping 2,000 workers in latest purge

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson eliminates jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company.

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