State agencies help connect job seekers, local employers

Friday, October 15, 2004

Richard Pelikan lost his job three months ago after 14 years as a mainframe database programmer at Southeast Missouri State University. The 50-year-old Cape Girardeau resident was terminated when the school made a shift from mainframe to PC databases. That's why he was spending his Thursday afternoon on the sixth floor of the Marquette Tower at the first ever Southeast Missouri Career Center "Meet the Employer" luncheon.

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