A total of 176 employers attended the tri-annual Job Quest job fair at the Neil Blaisdell Center in Honolulu to interview prospective job seekers. This was an increase from past events and included 16 companies that had never recruited at Job Quest before. Executive Director for Job Quest, Beth Busch, commented, "Employers had been kind of holding back and waiting to really hire until they thought that the economy was going to get better and stay better. I think people feel like it's really back, that we're really headed in the right direction and that it's not going to fall out from under us. For a while the mentality on the job seeker's side was just ‘I need a job.' Now we're back to seeing people at the job fair who are comfortable enough in the economy that they can look for a better job."
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 9-18-2013, www.staradvertiser.com
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