BUSINESS BRIEFS
Isles lose No. 1 spot on Net ads
Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i no longer can claim the distinction of having the nation's lowest ratio of online job ads to jobless workers.
There was one ad for every 0.88 jobless person in Hawai'i in March, according to a review of Internet job classifieds by the Conference Board, a New York-based business research group. That trailed Wyoming and tied Utah.
Hawai'i was ranked the lowest in February. The highest ratio in March was in Massachusetts, where there was 4.32 people out of work for every Web job advertisement, the Conference Board said.
HONOLULU RANKS AT TOP FOR LIVING
Honolulu was the highest-ranked U.S. city in a global quality-of-living survey, helped by its high rating for health resources and sanitation systems.
The survey by Mercer Human Resources ranked Honolulu as the 27th-best place to live in the world based on 39 quality-of-living criteria, including social, economic, safety and transportation.
Zurich, Switzerland, repeated as the world's top city, narrowly beating out Geneva. It was followed by Vancouver, British Columbia, and Vienna, Austria, which tied for third-best. Auckland, New Zealand, and Dusseldorf, Germany, tied for fifth.
Baghdad, Iraq, was rated the worst city. Other poorly scoring cities included Brazzaville, Congo, and Khartoum, Sudan.
Honolulu tied with Dublin, Ireland, as the 27th-best city and was followed by San Francisco. Mercer ranked Honolulu second in the world in the health and sanitation category. Calgary, Alberta, was first.
JOB FAIR SLATED FOR STUDENTS
A job fair for high school and community college students is set from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Hawai'i Convention Center.
The event, in the Maui Ballroom, room 316, is free and open to the public. Participants can register to win a free Gateway notebook computer. The fair is part of a two-day Career & Technical Student Organization State Convention being held through Thursday.
