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Missouri Job Center opens pop-up venue downtown

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Job seekers in Springfield have a new temporary option downtown to connect this week with Missouri Job Center resources. 

The Missouri Job Center’s temporary venue, dubbed a one-stop pop-up, is open 1-4 p.m. June 16 and 17 on Park Central Square outside of the Springfield-Greene County Library entrance, according to a news release. In case of rain, the center will move inside the library.  

“There are a number of barriers to employment like transportation and child care that can prevent job seekers from visiting job centers to look for employment, so these pop-up job centers help to address that problem,” said Sally Payne, interim director of workforce development for the city of Springfield, in the release. 

The pop-up provides services offered through the Missouri Job Center including resume assistance, help with job searches, a skills assessment and information on workshops and trainings. The agency also continues to offer assistance in Springfield at its 2900 E. Sunshine St. location and at The Fairbanks, 1126 N. Broadway Ave., where it relocated its north-side office in August 2020.  

The pop-up venue arrives as hiring challenges face employers locally and nationally. According to a U.S. Department of Labor report, U.S. employers added 559,000 jobs in May – against the backdrop of some 9.3 million job openings at the end of April. That tally marked the highest number of openings since the department began measuring it in December 2020. The number of hires remained at 6.1 million.  

Ongoing local hiring challenges also were noted in the city’s 2021 Momentum State of the Workforce Survey, announced in February by the Missouri Job Center. The seventh-annual survey findings noted 68% of survey participants reported hiring difficulty in the past year, according to past reporting. 

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