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Mar 4, 2021 / 10:43 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) An Indiana business is desperately searching for employees and has hundreds of open jobs for Hoosiers. The pandemic is causing Bastian Solutions business to boom, but the search for workers is slower than expected.
The Indiana Department of Workforce Development said December’s unemployment rate was 4.3%. That rate is way down from 16.9% in April, but higher than March of 2020 by about 1%. Now Bastian Solutions said they have part of the solution, with around 400 open jobs.
“Our biggest problem right now is hiring. In this calendar year, we need to hire roughly 400 people,” said Greg Conner.
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More than one out of every five Northwest Indiana residents lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic â and many were out of work for a protracted period.
While the unemployment rate in the Calumet Region has since descended from the stratosphere, the viral outbreak is expected to have a longer-lasting impact on the workforce and job market in the Calumet Region. The state of the workforce in Northwest Indiana is not great and might be best summarized as trying desperately to hold on and get through the economic challenges stemming from the pandemic, Indiana University Northwest Assistant Professor of Economics Micah Pollak said. The unemployment rate in Northwest Indiana, while much lower than earlier in the pandemic, continues to be 2.5 percentage points or 60% higher than one year previous. Unemployment insurance claims are still at record levels. The labor market is tight, and finding a replacement job can be extremely difficult or impossible for a worker poten