TA Associates has announced that they are recruiting for finance jobs in Boston and have filled one big position recently.

TA Associates, a leading growth private equity firm, today announced the recent hiring of a new staff member in its Boston office. Lisa Harris has joined the firm as a Vice President in the Financial Services and Consumer Group.

Ms. Harris focuses on investments in financial, business and other growth services companies. She joins TA with previous investment experience as an Associate at Centerbridge Partners, L.P., where she evaluated and executed private equity and special situation investments across multiple industries. Ms. Harris was previously an Analyst in the investment banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. She received a BA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Social Studies from Harvard College in 2004 and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, where she was a Palmer Scholar. Read the rest of this entry »

Progressive Painting Services is launching a PR campaign to show people in the area that they are the best company for labor jobs in Boston.

Founded in 1990, Progressive Painting Services has been continuously bringing life to the four walls of its customers’ houses and delivering highest level of quality by offering its expertise almost for two decades now. The company also offers services like power washing, wallpaper removing, free color consultation, drywall repair, epoxy coating besides interior painting. It boasts of providing the best painting and repairing services in and around Boston Metro. The website of the company allows you to register and avail services like color consultation and painting estimates free of cost.

Progressive Painting Services takes care all the needs and requirements of its customers and delivers high quality services. However, its interior painting services are considered the best among all. You can get free consultation regarding painting expenditure, the time estimates and color combination before scheduling the painting job. Even the sample applications are available if you want to go through them just to know their level of expertise and quality. Read the rest of this entry »

The Federal Reserve said the economy continues to grow modestly and points to shaky growth of retail jobs in Boston as proof.

In a press release, the Reserve said economy continued to grow modestly in recent weeks across most of the country, but activity slowed or was unchanged in four of 12 regions, the Federal Reserve said in a report Wednesday that underscored that the recovery has lost some steam.

The slower-growth theme was also reflected in other reports that showed a dip in durable goods orders and rise in unemployment in many metro areas.

The Fed’s beige book pointed to a distinct drop-off compared with its June survey, which showed all 12 districts expanding for the first time since 2007. The new study, which covered mid-June to mid-July, said the economies in the Cleveland and Kansas City areas were unchanged and the Atlanta and Chicago regions were slowing. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a new report on managerial hiring nationwide, management jobs in Boston have been eliminated by 10%.

Managerial recruitment activity rose last month to its highest level since March 2008, according to the new CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index. The July Index, which measures managerial hiring activity online, rose to 106.9, a gain of 14.3 over the June Index.

Cities leading the increase in per capita hiring were Pittsburgh (+13%) and Cleveland (+11%), followed by Cincinnati (+7%) and St. Louis (+7%). However, Boston and Riverside both lost 10%. Washington, D.C., at 176, is still the city to beat with the most managerial job activity despite a static July, while Riverside continues to be the lowest ranking city at 18.

“It’s exciting to see consistent gains nationally in managerial hiring,” says Tony Lee, publisher, www.CareerCast.com. “Even though the West still remains the nation’s weakest area given that the other regions are all now over 100, it had the strongest increase (+8.9 to 88.6) this month.”

“The upward trend in managerial hiring is a positive indicator of job growth,” says Jay Martin, COO, JobSerf. “And, if the numbers continue to stay above pre-recession job-listing levels, managerial recruitment could be the leading edge indicator of improvement in all levels of employment.”

The CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index is an exclusive barometer showing managerial hiring activity based on the number of jobs posted online nationally. The Index reveals the differences in job listings by month, and offers valuable trends and forecasts using proprietary employment data hand-counted by a team of researchers.

In June, employment activity among the 30 major metro areas surveyed by the CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index was extremely consistent, as all but one city posted an increase in hiring for the month. The employment picture in July, however, was more nuanced, with gains and losses spread throughout the list.

The biggest surprises were among the 10 best cities to find a job, where despite a strong performance nationally, just one of the metro areas managed to gain ground in July. The best performers in the group were Chicago, which gained a single point to reach an Index score of 84 and climb to 6th place, along with Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, which broke even. Every other city saw employment activity decline, with Boston leading the way by posting a surprising 14-point decline. After recording strong gains each month since January, the Massachusetts city had been on pace to overtake Washington, D.C., by September. Now, however, it remains a full 44 points behind the nation’s capital.

Evercore Partners is launching an equity research group, a move that could possibly create finance jobs in Boston.

According to a press release, Evercore Partners Inc. today announced the launch of its equity research group and its plans to initiate coverage of companies in the Telecommunication, Media and Technology, and Financial Institutions industries during the third quarter.

The research group initially is comprised of ten seasoned analysts with deep expertise in the sectors they cover and a balanced perspective developed by working in sell-side research, buy-side firms and in the industries they cover. This experience, together with an ability to provide access to company management, provides the foundation to deliver valuable insights and actionable investment ideas to Evercore’s clients.
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Yodle, an online advertising firm, says it expects to create dozens of new advertising jobs in Boston.
The firm says it needs client managers, account representatives, and marketing specialists. About 80 positions are opening up.

Yodle is currently located on Lincoln St, which houses about 20 employees. They’ll be holding a job fair to garner attention and buzz around the new positions.
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Lifebooker, a three year old website that gives members big discounts on spa services, is looking to expand and will be adding IT jobs in Boston as the website’s bandwith and technology burgeons.

Lifebooker offers everything from discounted salon and spa appointments, botox injections, and fitness classes at a 20 to 50% off rate. It has enjoyed revenue growth and is growing in popularity among users.

According to CrainsNewYork.com, the Brooklyn-based company has seen the number of New York City registered users double, to 60,000, and revenue is up more than 700% since December 2009, said Andrew Unger, co-founder. “And the backlog of local businesses who are awaiting approval to be on the site is by far the largest in the history of the company.”
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Major orchestras around the country are publicizing openings, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which is touting ten jobs in Boston.

According to an article from the NYTimes, although unemployment remains high, orchestras are marketing some rare opportunities. Next season the New York Philharmonic will have a rare 12 openings, or roughly 12 percent of its instrumental work force, thanks to a confluence of retirements, departures for better jobs and long-unfilled positions. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has 10 vacancies, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 9, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic 7. Read the rest of this entry »

Good news for unemployed techies: software giant Microsoft has announced they will be hiring for IT jobs in Boston in the near future.

The announcement comes after Microsoft bought a much larger space in Cambridge and moved to consolidate two of its suburban Boston development groups into the new space.

The centers are called New England Development and Research centers, or NERDs.

NERD senior director Sara Spalding told the Boston Herald that the consolidation “represents pulling our existing engineering teams together to have a single focal point of research and development in Massachusetts” and is “evidence of our commitment to building a really strong campus in Cambridge.”
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The state of Massachusetts is attracting a variety of businesses in the retail industry to fill vacant buildings around the city, creating optimism that retail jobs in Boston will increase in the coming year.

Major retailers like Best Buy, Savers and Ultimate Electronics will be expanding or setting up shop in Boston.

These various merchants have signed leases for roughly 2 million square feet of retail space left empty by bankrupt retailers such as Circuit City, Linens ‘n Things, and CompUSA.

According to Boston.com, real estate brokers provided the optimistic data.

Among the retailers opening up new jobs in the area are:

Savers: a thrift store chain based in Washington, opened in a North Attleborough building.

So why are retailers setting up shop here? According to Boston.com, it’s because the Massachusetts economy is improving far more rapidly than in other parts of the country. While land is actually priced higher than the national average, this has in fact been a draw for companies who bought cheaper land in poorer areas and failed or went out of business quickly.

The thriving metropolis of Boston is proving to be quite a draw for retailers.

New England Development, which just bought space in Westgate Mall in Brockton.

Best Buy, which is opening a store in Plymouth.