More than 120 local employers and employer resource organizations with immediate openings will be at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s Career Expo today to interview or answer questions from prospective job seekers.
The event, which is also sponsored by ALTRES Staffing and Monster, will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall. Job seekers are encouraged to attend in business attire and bring their resumes.
With Hawaii’s unemployment rate near an all-time low, employers have had a difficult time finding workers, according to local economists. The exposition also caters to so-called “passive employees,” who are people with jobs now but are looking to find better ones.
ON THE MOVE
Atlas Insurance Agency has promoted Anna Gima to assistant vice president of Accounting. She will continue to ensure smooth operations and automation of the Accounting Department as well as provide analysis to support the business. Gima has been with the agency since 2007 and has served as an accounting manager and controller.
The Board of Trustees of the State of Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System has announced that Elizabeth Burton will be the new ERS chief investment officer as of Oct. 1. She is currently managing director of the Maryland State Retirement Agency’s Quantitative Strategies Group. Burton previously owned William Street Advisory, a strategic advisory practice, which she founded in 2013. Prior to that she served as a senior economist with Criterion Economics as well as a consultant at First Annapolis.
Hawaiian Airlines has appointed Rob Sorensen as the new vice president of marketing and e-commerce. He was previously the head of marketing and merchandising at Amazon books and served as senior vice president of marketing and omni-channel at Luxottica.
JOB FAIR
>> When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday
>> Where: Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall
>> Dress code: Business attire
>> Cost: Free for first 1,000 people who preregister online, for servicemen and women in uniform, for University of Hawaii students with a UH student ID card and for U.S. veterans with a valid U.S. veteran ID card; $3 for general admission; $1 for seniors, military and students
>> Parking: $6
>> Information: hawaiicareerexpo.com
