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Here's something on what's going on in the hiring world. Thank you Todd Raphael, whoever you are--

Hiring: Several organizations are aggressively wooing employees this month. Alcoa is offering $1,500 hiring incentives (spread throughout the employee's first year of employment) to skilled machinists who will work in Fullerton, California, and elsewhere making parts for Lockheed's Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing's cargo planes. In Canada, the coffee and baked goods chain Tim Hortons held a job fair across Alberta involving every Hortons restaurant. It was the first province-wide job fair at all full-service Tim Hortons. Schneider National is offering $2,000 to $4,000 bonuses to truck drivers who will work in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area. The Las Vegas Sun reports that Clark County School District needs hundreds of teachers, particularly in special education, before school starts. Ikea is recruiting hundreds of employees at the kart-racing facility F1 Boston in Braintree, Massachusetts. In Long Beach, California, two Army recruiters bicycled down the beach talking to people about the military. As they spotted the tattoo of an Army veteran and asked him if his son was interested in signing up, a small airplane flew down the Long Beach coast, trailing a banner that advertised jobs at Raytheon, a defense contractor.