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Fast-Track Hiring: Inside the OKC Direct Hire Event · The 405 Payroll

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  Welcome to The 405 Payroll.
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  I'm Claire Brooks, and it's Wednesday, October 7th.
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  This is the lunchtime show where live Oklahoma City hiring news becomes something
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  you can use before the afternoon is over.
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  And I'm Miles.
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  Today's headline has a date on it, which I like, because a date means you can plan.
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  Monday, October 12th, 10 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon,
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  the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission is running a direct hiring event at
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  Oklahoma Works, 5005 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City.
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  It's open to veterans and the public.
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  The commission lists skilled trades, manufacturing, construction,
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  warehouse and logistics, healthcare, customer service, finance,
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  and IT, with interviews available on site.
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  Interviews on site.
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  Claire, why is that such a big deal if you're paying rent in this town?
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  Because an online application can get trapped in automated filters before a human
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  reads a word.
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  At a direct hire event you shake a hand, answer a few questions,
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  and some employers can move you from application to interview that same morning.
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  When rent is due on the first, a shorter road to the first paycheck matters.
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  The commission also says there's help with job searching, resumes,
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  and applications, plus connections to other workforce resources.
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  So if your resume is a mess, or you don't have one yet, there's help right in the
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  room.
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  Now the wider picture, because it's mixed.
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  The commission's August report has Oklahoma's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate
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  holding steady at 4.3 percent, with 1,700 nonfarm payroll jobs added.
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  That's about one tenth of one percent, so small, but it's up.
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  The part that stings is that jobless rates rose from a year ago in 72 of Oklahoma's
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  77 counties, and initial claims ticked up to 1,168 for the week ending September
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  19th.
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  So the takeaway isn't panic.
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  It's that employers can be choosy right now, and that makes meeting them face to
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  face worth more than another form submitted at midnight.
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  And it's one morning.
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  Three hours.
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  Plenty of people could swing that on a lunch break or a shift swap,
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  and you might not even need all three hours.
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  Today we've got three OKC employers with real pay numbers, a training path toward
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  twenty two to twenty eight dollars an hour, extra money you can start this week,
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  and a local program that helps a raise last.
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  Plus a true story and one thing to do before tonight.
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  Then let's start with who's hiring.