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Birmingham Metro Economic Development
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, May 26 2006 03:51 PM
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Posted 12 August 2007 - 03:41 PM
AT&T is looking to expand in the region, looking to add 400 new jobs
AT&T is going to submit a request this week to Birmingham and Jeffco to invest $2 million into expanding their operations in the region. They are being mum on what exactly the jobs will inquire, but it will have the pay scale of the $20-30K range annually. The agreements with Birmingham and Jeffco for them both to provide the company $200K each in incentives to allow this expansion.
AT&T Alabama, formerly Bellsouth Alabama, Inc., has currently 5,500 employees in this region.
AT&T is going to submit a request this week to Birmingham and Jeffco to invest $2 million into expanding their operations in the region. They are being mum on what exactly the jobs will inquire, but it will have the pay scale of the $20-30K range annually. The agreements with Birmingham and Jeffco for them both to provide the company $200K each in incentives to allow this expansion.
AT&T Alabama, formerly Bellsouth Alabama, Inc., has currently 5,500 employees in this region.
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Posted 14 August 2007 - 05:18 PM
I think it will be great for Birmingham. I'm glad Birmingham is getting a little attention at least from some of those corporations that have bought out local companies. Hopefully Wachovia, AT&T, etc. will continue to have a major presence here and even expand their operations here.
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Posted 06 September 2007 - 08:44 AM
AT&T Inc. said Tuesday it will begin work immediately on a $3.5 million project to renovate space at the company's downtown office tower into a customer care center with 367 new employees providing technical support for Internet operations.
On Tuesday, Birmingham and Jefferson County officials voted unanimously to provide $200,000 each in incentives for the San Antonio-based telecommunications giant. The Alabama Development Office earlier agreed to support the project with another $200,000.
AT&T expects the call center operation to have an annual payroll of $8.5 million. City officials project the center will generate $81,000 a year in occupational taxes and have an annual economic impact of $100,000.
I don't understand why incentives are needed to bring jobs with an average annual salary of $23,000.00
On Tuesday, Birmingham and Jefferson County officials voted unanimously to provide $200,000 each in incentives for the San Antonio-based telecommunications giant. The Alabama Development Office earlier agreed to support the project with another $200,000.
AT&T expects the call center operation to have an annual payroll of $8.5 million. City officials project the center will generate $81,000 a year in occupational taxes and have an annual economic impact of $100,000.
I don't understand why incentives are needed to bring jobs with an average annual salary of $23,000.00
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 11:02 PM
Report: Birmingham to gain lab jobs by 2018
Birmingham is in line to benefit from a projected upswell in clinical laboratory jobs over the next decade, industry experts say.
The U.S. Department of Labor predicts a combined 108,000 clinical technologist and technician jobs will come open due to job growth and replacement needs by 2018. Those jobs include “rapid growth in private diagnostic labs, as well as in physicians’ offices,” according to a recent U.S. News and World Report list of the top 50 careers for the next 10 years.
Birmingham’s robust health care community and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Clinical and Laboratory Science/Medical Technology Program could be a winning job-growth combination, according to health care professor John Lowe. Lowe, director of the Simmons College graduate program in health care administration in Boston, said the local area might benefit from an expected increase in lab work as baby boomers demand more medical services and technology becomes more affordable.
“Those things are going to expand,” Lowe said.
Clinical laboratory jobs include testing and analyzing body fluids and cells to help physicians make diagnosis. They also conduct blood and drug tests. In the near future, those laboratory jobs will also include greater genetics testing as scientists gain a greater understanding of DNA makeup, according to Janelle Chiasera, director of Clinical Laboratory Sciences at UAB.
Chiasera said up to 70 percent of decisions regarding patient diagnosis and treatment are based on laboratory results. She said clinical laboratory students entering the local market with bachelor and master’s degrees aren’t oversaturating the local work force. Instead of having to move away from Birmingham to find jobs, she said those graduates are being absorbed by health care facilities as demand for those services grows.
“The market tends to get flooded, but that’s not the case here,” Chiasera said. “We expect that the overall growth trend in the health care sector will continue to progress rapidly as aging baby boomers place new and increased demands on health care providers.”
Simmons College’s Lowe said the “x” factor for the field is at what level DNA work will increase. He predicts every hospital will have a genetics counselor on staff within five years.
As technology improves and costs decline, genetics testing will play a greater role in not only treatment but prevention, Chiasara said.
“As we get information from the genome, it will be important to the way we treat people,” Chiasera said. “The profession is currently experiencing a 10 percent vacancy rate, and 13 percent of the current professionals are likely to retire in the next five years, creating widespread opportunities for jobs across the country.”
Job growth in the clinical laboratory is expected to be faster than average with the number of job opportunities rising by about 16 percent. The fastest job growth will come from clinical, pathology and physician-office laboratories.
Lowe said lab technology is becoming more ubiquitous particularly among private physician practices, which are adding services as equipment costs decline.
Birmingham is in line to benefit from a projected upswell in clinical laboratory jobs over the next decade, industry experts say.
The U.S. Department of Labor predicts a combined 108,000 clinical technologist and technician jobs will come open due to job growth and replacement needs by 2018. Those jobs include “rapid growth in private diagnostic labs, as well as in physicians’ offices,” according to a recent U.S. News and World Report list of the top 50 careers for the next 10 years.
Birmingham’s robust health care community and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Clinical and Laboratory Science/Medical Technology Program could be a winning job-growth combination, according to health care professor John Lowe. Lowe, director of the Simmons College graduate program in health care administration in Boston, said the local area might benefit from an expected increase in lab work as baby boomers demand more medical services and technology becomes more affordable.
“Those things are going to expand,” Lowe said.
Clinical laboratory jobs include testing and analyzing body fluids and cells to help physicians make diagnosis. They also conduct blood and drug tests. In the near future, those laboratory jobs will also include greater genetics testing as scientists gain a greater understanding of DNA makeup, according to Janelle Chiasera, director of Clinical Laboratory Sciences at UAB.
Chiasera said up to 70 percent of decisions regarding patient diagnosis and treatment are based on laboratory results. She said clinical laboratory students entering the local market with bachelor and master’s degrees aren’t oversaturating the local work force. Instead of having to move away from Birmingham to find jobs, she said those graduates are being absorbed by health care facilities as demand for those services grows.
“The market tends to get flooded, but that’s not the case here,” Chiasera said. “We expect that the overall growth trend in the health care sector will continue to progress rapidly as aging baby boomers place new and increased demands on health care providers.”
Simmons College’s Lowe said the “x” factor for the field is at what level DNA work will increase. He predicts every hospital will have a genetics counselor on staff within five years.
As technology improves and costs decline, genetics testing will play a greater role in not only treatment but prevention, Chiasara said.
“As we get information from the genome, it will be important to the way we treat people,” Chiasera said. “The profession is currently experiencing a 10 percent vacancy rate, and 13 percent of the current professionals are likely to retire in the next five years, creating widespread opportunities for jobs across the country.”
Job growth in the clinical laboratory is expected to be faster than average with the number of job opportunities rising by about 16 percent. The fastest job growth will come from clinical, pathology and physician-office laboratories.
Lowe said lab technology is becoming more ubiquitous particularly among private physician practices, which are adding services as equipment costs decline.
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