Hound finds over 4,500 jobs when weatherization program in Seattle fails

Aug. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Pasadena, CA, August 18, 2011 - Seattle's weatherization program has gone in vain. Seattle Mayor, Mike McGinn, won $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization.

McGinn announced the Weatherize Every Building program in April of last year. The goals were generating 2,000 living-wage jobs in Seattle and 2,000 existing buildings would be improved with energy efficiency equipment in poorer neighborhoods.

Even though the announcement came with great fanfare, Seattle's number is still lagging. Till last week, out of the 2000 homes, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program.

The process is said to have been sluggish and tiresome. It's almost painful that only the people who got jobs have been among those who attended the meetings.  There's been no real investment for the broader public.

It is surprising that, those who have benefited from the program are not low-income home owners and small businesses that were supposed to be targeted; instead they are hospitals and an athletic club.

People doubt if the original goals are now attainable!

Hound has a database of jobs that come directly from the employer's website. It has found over 4,500 jobs in Seattle. The jobs category has a wide range of variety from law jobs (http://www.hound.com/gjbrowsejobs.php?cat=Law), to blue collar jobs to human resource and consulting jobs.

Hound gives you the benefit of location specific as well as industry specific job search. It lists those jobs that are available directly from employers which you will not see advertised anywhere else and are available to you exclusively.

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Hound is the world leader in the monitoring and reporting of jobs on employer websites, through its active and growing research into all employers throughout the world. With over 300 employees working round the clock, Hound goes to employer websites, collects information about job openings, and reports everything it finds to its members. There are over 700,000 employer jobs listed currently on the site