Emergency Service Partners, L.P may soon be hiring for several healthcare jobs in San Antonio.

The company announced it has reached an agreement to staff and provide medical management for two new free-standing emergency medical facilities set to open later this year. One will be located in northwest San Antonio, and the other will be built in nearby New Braunfels, expanding access emergency medical care in both cities.

“These facilities bring the hospital into the community,” said Dr. Dennis Watts, Executive Vice President of Business Integration for Austin-based ESP. “Free-standing emergency departments provide an easy way for people to get to the ER without going too far from their neighborhoods.”

The Christus Santa Rosa Emergency Centers will be owned by Christus Santa Rosa Health System, a not-for-profit, Catholic faith-based health system that operates a network of hospitals in the San Antonio area. ESP has provided complete medical management for the emergency department at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in New Braunfels since 2002.

A number of free-standing emergency departments have opened in Texas in recent years, as part of an effort to provide broad-based emergency services to communities that do not have easy access to hospital-based emergency care, Watts said.

Unlike some similar facilities, the two new Christus 24-hour emergency centers will be fully equipped and will provide a full range of emergency medical services, just like emergency rooms in a traditional hospital. Both facilities will operate under the neighboring hospital’s license and will comply with all the same operational and construction requirements of hospital-based emergency departments.

According to a new survey, San Antonio small business jobs are increasing.

SurePayroll, the online alternative in payroll services, recently released December results for its monthly Small Business Scorecard showing a promising trend of small business owners expressing optimism about the economy. SurePayroll’s Small Business Scorecard optimism score climbed to 63 percent in December compared to 53 percent in the previous two months, and up from only 33 percent in September.

“We saw caution in 2011, but the leading indicators suggest 2012 looks positive,” said SurePayroll CEO and President Michael Alter. “The sun is on the horizon. Optimism is higher, 50 percent plan to hire and wages look to go up.”

Year-over-year Scorecard data shows a hiring decline of 3.2 percent and wages down 0.8 percent. The South saw positive growth in hiring (0.5 percent) and wages (0.4 percent) over the course of the year. The rest of the country was in the red, aside from a slight wages increase (0.1 percent) in the Northeast.

For December 2011, the Scorecard, which also includes hiring and wage data for the top 35 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, reveals month-over-month declines in nationwide hiring (-0.2 percent) and wages (-0.3 percent). Regionally, it was a similar story, with the Midwest, Northeast and West showing modest declines across the board, and the South remaining flat in hiring and down slightly in wages.

Despite the sluggishness of 2011, the SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard’s optimism survey shows some very positive signs for 2012.

• Along with optimism being up to 63 percent, the highest it has been since June, the survey also shows 50 percent of small business owners planning to hire in 2012.
• Meanwhile, 56 percent plan to increase wages for some or all of their employees in the new year.
• Only 2 percent plan to cut wages.

CSG announced this week that is creating several new customer service jobs in San Antonio.

The company added 70 last year and is growing even more this year. It plans on hiring at least 150 people, due in part to a swell in their client base.

Culture.Service.Growth. is a veteran-owned contact center outsourcing firm. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a new survey, more jobs in San Antonio are being created by small businesses.

SurePayroll, the online alternative in payroll services, has announced December results for its monthly Small Business Scorecard showing a promising trend of small business owners expressing optimism about the economy. SurePayroll’s Small Business Scorecard optimism score climbed to 63 percent in December compared to 53 percent in the previous two months, and up from only 33 percent in September.

“We saw caution in 2011, but the leading indicators suggest 2012 looks positive,” said SurePayroll CEO and President Michael Alter. “The sun is on the horizon. Optimism is higher, 50 percent plan to hire and wages look to go up.”

Year-over-year Scorecard data shows a hiring decline of 3.2 percent and wages down 0.8 percent. The South saw positive growth in hiring (0.5 percent) and wages (0.4 percent) over the course of the year. The rest of the country was in the red, aside from a slight wages increase (0.1 percent) in the Northeast.

For December 2011, the Scorecard, which also includes hiring and wage data for the top 35 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, reveals month-over-month declines in nationwide hiring (-0.2 percent) and wages (-0.3 percent). Regionally, it was a similar story, with the Midwest, Northeast and West showing modest declines across the board, and the South remaining flat in hiring and down slightly in wages.

Before 2012 arrived, Red Venures announced it was hiring for sales jobs in San Antonio.

The tech company had a special Inside Sales career to fill a plethora of positions.

The fair took place at Red Ventures’ San Antonio headquarters, located at 5750 Northwest Parkway, San Antonio, TX 78249. Read the rest of this entry »

The Creating IT Futures Foundation  is a new program that aims to train unemployed and underemployed workers and places them in six-month-long apprenticeships in the information technology (IT) field, including in IT jobs in San Antonio.

The program will launch in five metro locations in 2012.

The apprenticeship program will launch in Cincinnati, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis / St. Paul and San Antonio. The first apprentices start work as early as June 2012.

The program will cover the costs of recruiting, training and certifying workers to provide help desk, call center and technical customer support for qualifying companies.

“IT-Ready is an easy and cost-effective way for companies to give back,” said Charles Eaton, the foundation’s executive director. “IT-Ready apprentices aren’t college interns. An apprentice is expected to help the host company meet its goals, while simultaneously building his or her technical and professional skills.”

“Obviously, the end goal is that apprentices go on to satisfying, lifelong IT careers,” Eaton said. “Some companies will hire their apprentices full time, others won’t. But just having CompTIA certifications plus on-the-job experience on their resume is a huge step forward for that individual.”

To ensure receiving an IT-Ready Apprentice, employers should sign up with the program by the end of January 2012, Eaton said.

The most jobs in the nation are in San Antonio, according to a new survey.

The Milken Institute’s annual survey of Best Performing Cities said that San Antonio topped the list of 200 large metros, and Houston scored No. 1 among the 10 biggest U.S. metros.

Texas metros occupied four of the Top 5 positions (vs. three last year), and nine of the Top 25 (vs. 11 in 2010). Despite continuing national economic weakness, the Texas job machine continued to crank out employment gains: Its employers created one of every six new jobs in the United States in the year through October. Read the rest of this entry »

A local event is connecting job seekers with a variety of San Antonio jobs.

The annual Small, Minority, Women and Veterans Business Owners Contracting Conference (SMWBE)  was held at Freeman Coliseum on Wednesday, December 7. The event drew more than 5,000 attendees.

During this half-day event, owners of small and minority owned businesses around San Antonio and Bexar County were provided with the opportunity to meet, network and develop face-to-face relationships with federal, state and local agencies as well as private companies. The event also featured a variety of Read the rest of this entry »

Bank of America recently announced it has reached its goal of boosting the number of finance jobs in San Antonio and around the nation.

Bank of America has doubled the number of Merrill Edge Financial Solutions Advisors (FSAs) to more than 1,000 nationwide by the end of 2011. With the addition of more than 280 new hires across Texas and Florida, more than 1,200 FSAs are now working in banking centers throughout the United States or in the Merrill Edge Advisory Center.

BoA has also increased finance jobs in Florida.

The hires are part of Bank of America’s overall commitment to enhance the solutions and guidance it offers to Preferred customers — those with investable assets of $50,000 to $250,000. These FSAs will provide the financial solutions and guidance customers need to help them manage their banking and investment needs and stay in better control of their finances.

“At the beginning of the year, we committed ourselves to enhancing our services and offerings to meet the complex needs of our Preferred customers,” said Dean Athanasia, Preferred and Small Business Banking executive at Bank of America. “By increasing the number of FSAs in banking centers and in the Merrill Edge Advisory Center, our customers have access to best-in-class banking and investment solutions, unmatched access and convenience and the availability of specialists when and where they prefer.”

Preferred customers are among the fastest-growing segments in the financial services industry. Bank of America does business with more than 8 million Preferred customers and has unrivaled insight into their financial needs. According to the Merrill Edge Report, some of the top priorities for Preferred customers include wanting a better retirement than their parents (85 percent), having access to both banking and investing solutions (73 percent) and maintaining the ability to track and manage their money (72 percent).

Nearly 65 FSAs added in Florida banking centers will serve customers in markets including Boca Raton, Ft. Lauderdale and Sarasota. In addition, approximately 155 FSAs were hired in the Merrill Edge Advisory Center in Jacksonville, bringing the FSA statewide total to more than 350. In Texas, more than 60 FSAs have been added to banking centers in 20 cities, including Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

Oil field giant Halliburton said this week it is recruiting for many engineering jobs in San Antonio, among other positions.

Halliburton said it it will hire 1500 people for a variety of positions, including administrators, managers, technicians, engineers, chemists, geologists and truck driver jobs.

The jobs will pay an average of $70,000 per year. Read the rest of this entry »