More than 3,700 unemployed flock to New York job fair

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Job seekers line up to enter the job

fair at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Manhattan, New York, the United

States, March 5, 2009. The job website Monster.com started its series of

job fairs "Keep America Working Tour 2009" in New York on Thursday with

more than 3,700 job hunters converging in search of employment. The

unemployment rate of New York city has soared to 7.4% according to

statistics due to the financial turmoil.(Chinese media/Gu Xinrong)
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NEW YORK, March 5 (Chinese media) -- More than 3700

unemployed people flocked to a job fair in New York Thursday.

The fair, sponsored by jobs Web site Monster.com, was

one of a string of huge career expos held in New York in the past couple of

months.

There were 92 companies represented at Thursday's

event, Eric Winegardner, a spokesman for the Monster.com said, adding there were

1,000 openings for job-hunters.

Monster.com, the leading global online career and

recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc., Thursday

announced the launch of the year-long Keep America Working Tour, a nationwide,

multi-city job fair designed to link employers that have open job positions with

people who need them.

Job seekers line up to enter the job

fair at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Manhattan, New York, the United

States, March 5, 2009.(Chinese media/Gu Xinrong)
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The tour will visit more than 140 stops across

America throughout 2009.

Laura Ryan, vice president of group manager at

Monster.com, told Chinese media that altogether 3720 seekers came to the event, adding

"there were a variety of industries represented today including healthcare,

finance, retail, consumer products and state and local government."

The next stop on the Keeping America Working tour is

in D.C. on March 9.

According to a press release obtained by Chinese media, at

the core of the Keep America Working Tour is Monster's mission to help rebuild

the American workforce by providing job seekers with the information and

experience needed to directly and successfully interact with the employers who

are hiring in their local markets.