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Hanging Out the Help Wanted Sign

One of the largest employers in the C.S.R.A. is looking for engineers across multiple departments onsite. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) held a job fair at the North Augusta Community Center to connect managers and applicants. “SRNS has done multiple events like this in the past. This is the first one for this fiscal year that we’ve done. But we typically try to do these twice a year to try to attract talent in different categories or different job descriptions that we have or need help in filling,” Carla Wheeler,

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Dana Lynn McIntyre February 18, 2025 No Comments
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Powering up the future for students

The annual Power Up Your Future Career and College Day is set for Feb. 27 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Western Carolina Fairgrounds at 561 May Royal Drive in Aiken. This event is specifically for eighth-grade students in Aiken County schools. With the event happening during a regular school day, transportation will be provided to get students from their school to the fairgrounds. “It’s really just an opportunity for our students to start exploring opportunities in different careers and tying that into local college opportunities as well,”

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Dana Lynn McIntyre February 17, 2025 No Comments
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Simon Says: Feedback from ABD Reader on Jobs

Loyal Augusta Business Daily reader, Zach Kelehear asked me an interesting question last week about the monthly change in employment over the last year. Here is the data again: Kelehear asked, “The three months that showed drops in employment are interesting to consider…. The “Why” is at the heart of my curiosity, and are these months typically, historically, low employment months.” So, I dug back into the data that goes back to 1990, and here are the results: All months, except April, have shown increases in employment over the last

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe February 17, 2025 No Comments
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Is AI coming for your job?

In the past couple of years, there has been hardly a week that has gone by that ABD hasn’t reported about AI or cyber technology growth in the CSRA. In four days at the end of January, 1000 employers representing 14 million workers met with economic leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Much of the discussion revolved around the WEF’s Future of Jobs report. The 94-page report highlighted the role of AI in reshaping industries and tasks across all sectors. Postal service clerks, executive secretaries, and payroll clerks

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Mitzi Oxford February 17, 2025 No Comments
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New Store Offers Clothing and Grace

After much prayer, Teresa Cheek left her Human Resources career for a life in retail—with a purpose. Local Threads Aiken is now open in downtown Aiken on Laurens Street. They offer women’s clothing in a variety of sizes and fun colors. “I feel like beautiful clothes have a way of allowing women to feel good in their own skin,” said Cheek. Local Threads Aiken also offers an area for people to come in and write down their prayer needs or take prayers and pray for others. “I wanted to have something

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Neil Gordon February 13, 2025 No Comments
B2B Stories

CSRA Businesses Focus on Finding the Future for Students

Just as ABD reported on North Augusta’s presentation for bridging the gap between business needs through apprentice programs, comes an expo sponsored by the Columbia County Chamber Foundation and the Columbia County School District. The goals for both are very aligned with CSRA employment needs. The expo focuses on exposing parents and students to career opportunities for the future. The initiative will align the educational, technical, and trade sectors with the businesses, showing parents and students the pathways to obtain a future quality career. Each company will list the main

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Staff Report February 13, 2025 No Comments
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Downtown Bouncing Back with Big Event

It hasn’t been an easy year for downtown Augusta businesses, but they are working to put the lost revenue from Hurricane Helene and a rare winter storm behind them and move forward. An upcoming event, Downtown Get Down, hopes to be the kickstart for a better 2025. “It’s the 2nd year for this event and the start of fundraising for the new year to increase visibility for small businesses and bring more people downtown to support them,” explained Downtown Soul City Director, John Porter. This year’s event features a casino

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Mitzi Oxford February 10, 2025 No Comments
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Simon Says: Job Jolts in the CSRA/Georgia

The Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) ended the year with another record employment level. In December, there were 248,400 people employed in the area, the highest on record. Six months in 2025 had record employment, and nine months saw month-on-month employment growth. It may have been ten without Hurricane Helene. Over the year, employment grew by 2,800, or 1.1%. One of my favorite podcasts is a BBC show called More or Less. They like to ask, “Is that a big number?,” in other words, what is the context or comparison?

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe February 10, 2025 No Comments
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Shopping Center Opens

A new West Augusta Shopping Center is off to a solid start with three retailers open and three other leases signed. Jordan Trotter Commercial Real Estate already has about 50% of the square footage leased. Super Bowl Sunday provided a big boost to Baldino’s, a popular sub sandwich shop occupying the first spot in the center to the right. The center is at 110 Davis Road, directly across from the West Town Shopping Center at the corner of Davis and Washington Road. The other two businesses open to the far

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Neil Gordon February 9, 2025 No Comments
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BAM Grand Opening Announced for New Location

For those who love books and love to read, the timing of Books-A-Million’s (BAM) grand opening couldn’t be more perfect. February 14, Valentine’s Day, has been announced for the Grand Opening in the new location at Hitchcock Plaza. After several weeks of social media buzz and media outlet speculation regarding a potential new location for Aiken’s BAM, ABD confirmed on January 27 that the bookstore would be opening at 243 Fabian Drive in Hitchcock Plaza. United Properties Corporation (UPC) based in East Meadow, New York owns shopping centers across Long

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Mitzi Oxford February 6, 2025 No Comments
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