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This past year I took a career leap. I started my own consulting company and I also joined Dale Carnegie of North Dakota and NW Minnesota. I’m proud of myself for making a career change, but I am also very proud of the organization I’m joining. I have a great passion for influencing and training people and the Dale Carnegie organization allows me to continue doing that through their variety of programming. We get to build powerful people skills all while giving back to our local communities. But what makes me the proudest of this organization is in the past year they recently paused as a team and wrote a fresh set of goals for our next fiscal year. The team is small but mighty and the company is thriving. They recognized the importance to pause and to set the company’s vision for us. They invested in team building and made sure each employee was heard.

I believe in the importance of organizations needing to check in with their North Star and at Dale Carnegie we did that. The owners made sure we’re aligned with our business solutions as a team and are all enthusiastic about the next year’s goals.

Deidre Hillman Training Solutions Consultant & Certified Trainer Candidate

Dale Carnegie of North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota

Bismarck, N.D.

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At KLJ our Branding and Communications team includes a number of individuals with diverse skill sets that require thoughtful creativity, collaboration, and great attention to detail. With that said, over the last year, our team has successfully adjusted to a dispersed work environment that allows us to not only work effectively, but also helps us maintain that high level of creativity from a marketing standpoint on both internal and external projects. Additionally, we have added new team members in remote environments that allows flexibility and a work-life balance that we have found many of our team members appreciate.

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 235,000 in August, following increases of 1.1 million in July and 962,000 in June. Nonfarm employment has increased by 17.0 million since April 2020 but is down by 5.3 million, or 3.5%, from its pre-pandemic level in February 2020. Employment in professional and business services increased by 74,000 in August 2021. Since February 2020, employment in professional and business services is down by 468,000, with over half the decline in temporary help services.

U.S. airlines carried 61.4 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in June 2021, seasonally adjusted, according to the latest numbers by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The airlines carried 10.9% more passengers, seasonally adjusted, in June of this year than in May and 302% more than in June 2020, but 20% fewer than in pre-pandemic June 2019. BTS reported 56 million domestic passengers and 5.5 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in June.

From June to July 2021, the number of job openings was up 749,000 to 10.9 million, the highest level since we started tracking job openings in December 2000. Job openings nationwide increased in several industries, with the largest increases in education and health services (+281,000). Within education and health services, health care and social assistance increased by 294,000 job openings over the month, while educational services decreased by 13,000 job openings.

The unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 5.2% in August 2021. The number of unemployed people edged down to 8.4 million, following a large decrease in July. Both measures are down considerably from their highs at the end of the FebruaryApril 2020 recession. However, they remain above their levels before the COVID-19 pandemic (3.5% and 5.7 million in February 2020).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Source: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics