CLEVELAND TEMP AGENCIES

Cleveland is the second largest city in Ohio with approximately half a million people. It is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border.

With the recent downturn in our economy and rising unemployment, many are turning to temp agencies to find short term work. This can have several benefits. First, temp agencies do the work of finding the work for people in return for a fee paid by the employer. Second, working through temp agencies allow people to test out different jobs and industries to find what they like. Third, jobs attained through temp agencies frequently turn into longer term work, either as extended contract or eventually full time employment.

Cleveland’s location on the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie has been key to its growth. The Ohio and Erie Canal coupled with rail links helped establish the city as a major American manufacturing center. Steel and many other manufactured goods emerged as its industries.

The city has sought to diversify its economy to become less dependent on its struggling manufacturing sector. Cleveland is the corporate headquarters of many large companies such as Eaton Corporation, National City Corporation, American Greetings, Forest City Enterprises, Sherwin-Williams Company, KeyCorp, Parker-Hannifin Corporation, Progressive Auto Insurance, TravelCenters of America, and Aleris International. NASA maintains a facility in Cleveland, the Glenn Research Center. Jones Day, one of the largest law firms in the world, traces its origins to Cleveland, and its Cleveland office remains the firm’s largest.

However, in recent years, the Cleveland area has lost nearly a dozen corporate headquarters, including TRW, Office Max, BP, and Oglebay Norton, most through acquisitions or mergers. In 2005, Duke Realty Corp., one of the area’s largest landlords, announced it was selling all of its property in the Cleveland area because of the stagnation of the market; however, the company continues to maintain a large office building portfolio in the southern suburbs. The commercial real estate market rebounded in 2007 as office properties were purchased at a record pace.[93] From the beginning of July to the end of September, 2007, there was one residential foreclosure for every fifty-seven homes in the metropolitan area, and ten percent of the city’s homes are now vacant, due in part to the rise in foreclosure filings.

Cleveland is an emerging area for biotechnology and fuel cell research, led by Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic, and University Hospitals of Cleveland. Cleveland is among the top recipients of investment for biotech start-ups and research. Case Western Reserve, the Clinic, and University Hospitals have recently announced plans to build a large biotechnology research center and incubator on the site of the former Mt. Sinai Medical Center, creating a research campus to stimulate biotech startup companies that can be spun off from research conducted in the city.