Taunton job fair canceled on lack of employers

TAUNTON, Mass. – The annual Taunton job fair has been canceled for the first time in 30 years due to a lack of interested employers, the Taunton Gazette reported.

The fair was scheduled for April 6 but only 10 of the tables were reserved by the deadline; the Taunton Employment Task Force said it needed 20-25 employers to run a “quality” job fair.

“Unfortunately, we just didn’t get employers out this year,” said Richard Shafer, chairman of the Taunton Employment Task Force, to the newspaper. “This is the first year it’s ever happened to us.”
The task force wouldn’t have been able to generate enough revenue in order to adequately advertise the job fair, he said while noting that the cancellation reflects the state of the economy in some ways.
In January, Taunton’s unemployment rate was 10.3 percent, higher than the Massachusetts rate of 9.0 percent, the newspaper observed.

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