Source: Las Catalinas Job seekers in the province of Guanacaste, preferably bilingual, are encouraged to attend the job fair at Las Catalinas, which will take place today, Saturday September 12th, at the Huacas Community Center from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.   Las Catalinas is a new beach town located on the Guanacaste Gold Coast of Costa Rica, on the pristine Playa Danta.  Its purpose is...

Bayer SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwired - Aug 27, 2015) - The Bayer Group opened a plant for the production of a non-reversible permanent contraceptive device today, with an investment of US$12 million and an initial employment generation for up to 75 people. The plant, located in the Zona Franca Metropolitana in Barreal de Heredia covers about 1,400 square meters, dedicated to the assembl...

When President Luis Guillermo Solis was on the campaign trail against former candidate Johnny Araya from the majority National Liberation Party (Spanish initials: PLN), he presented a single pronouncement on the topic of immigration: He strongly believed that employers should be responsible for handling the required paperwork to assist foreign workers get the proper visa in Costa Rica. More tha...

Flickr Commons The most iconic brand of sporting equipment in Major League Baseball (MLB) will trim down its operations in Costa Rica. Rawlings, the official provider of baseballs to the MLB since the late 1970s, has announced that it will shut down its uniform manufacturing operations in Costa Rica and will move them to El Salvador, where cheaper labor and lower overhead expenses await. Ac...

GoCode, a programming academy in Costa Rica Austin, Texas (PRWEB) July 27, 2015 -- techXscapes launched its Indiegogo campaign for funding its destination bungalow-workspace pilot location in Costa Rica on July 20, 2015. Its funding goal is $75,000. Focused on technology professionals, the Bungalow-workspace concept combines co-working and co-living space ideas into a unified experience, si...

Source: Banco Central A legislative inquiry into the salaries of public sector employees is causing indignation among politicians, labor unions and the public in Costa Rica. Legislator Otto Guevara, a former presidential candidate representing the Libertarian Movement, has been leading a series of inquiries into the payrolls of government institutions as well as government-sponsored entitie...

Pixabay Commons SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 9, 2015) - The company GEP announced that it will install a services center in Costa Rica in the second half of the year. The company will hire multilingual professionals or advanced undergraduates with knowledge in management and engineering for its operation. The company will seek for talent with language skills in English, Portuguese, Fren...

Amazon.com Internet retail giant Amazon.com will hold a job fair in Costa Rica this week. According to a report filed by business reporter Rebeca Madrigal of online news daily CRHoy.com, the job fair will take place at Amazon’s business center in Calle Blancos on Thursday, July 9th, from 7 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon.   Amazon Costa Rica is currently seeking to fill posi...

CINDE In 2013, Site Selection Magazine, an industry journal dedicated to business strategy and economic development, highlighted Costa Rica as one of the Top Ten “Best to Invest” countries in the world. For this reason, the administration of President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera has been very busy in attracting foreign investment through the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (Spanish ini...

PerHeadStore.com San José, Costa Rica – Today, Per Head Store has announced that the company has hired 21 additional programmers to its existing team. This step is not only important for the company to stay on top if it comes to delivering software products that are innovative and leading in its niche, but also a great benefit for the local community in Costa Rica, as this step also creates ne...

U.S. State Department Stafford Fitzgerald Haney was formally introduced as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Costa Rica on Tuesday afternoon at the San Pedro office of the Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano. He arrived in our country over the weekend. During his press conference, Ambassador S. Fitzgerald Haney, an econo...

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwired - Jun 26, 2015) - The multinational company Cargill opened its Cargill Business Services (CBS) center in Costa Rica. This business unit will provide services to the Americas in the areas of Finance and Human Resources, and in the future it will add services in information technology, strategic sourcing, transportation and logistics. Cargill decided to accelera...

Costa Rica is an increasingly expensive and prohibitive destination for foreign companies that wish to transfer their executives and staff to our country. Such was the report recently broadcast by national television network Teletica, which cited a research study by consulting firm Mercer Global. According to the Mercer report, the Greater San Jose Metropolitan Area (Spanish initials: GAM) rank...

Source: Mondelez SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwired - Jun 15, 2015) - Mondelez International, proud maker of iconic brands such as Gallito and Oreo biscuits, Tang beverages, Trident gum and Halls candy, announced today that it has chosen Costa Rica as the location for a new Employee services (Human Resources) center that will support its North America business. The company confirmed tha...

RACINE, Wis., June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SC Johnson announced it ranked number two out of 88 companies on the 2015 Great Place To Work list in Central America. SC Johnson Costa Rica has been recognized by the Great Place to Work® Institute as a Top 5 company for eight consecutive years. "Being recognized by Great Place to Work in Central America is a testament to the company's commitment to p...

President Solis KANNAPOLIS, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Costa Rica and the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) are signing an education cooperation agreement that will allow training opportunities for Costa Rican scientists at the NCRC. The signing of this agreement is part of one of the objectives of the investment promotion tour headed by President Luis Guillermo Solis, the Minister of Forei...

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - May 05, 2015) - Scotiabank has been recognized as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People by Mediacorp Canada Inc. Previously, the Great Place to Work® Institute also recognized Scotiabank as a great workplace in Costa Rica. "We are honoured to be recognized as one of the country's Top Employers for Young People," said Barbara Mason, Scotiabank's Chief Human R...

Legacy Intel product -- What started as a grassroots effort among a few colleagues to meditate during the lunch hour has now grown into an officially supported 10-week long program at Intel. Now in its third year, the Awake@Intel program imparts on participants concepts such as mindfulness, intention and relational intelligence. Many other companies are also deploying similar courses. I...

Source: Pixabay Commons (San Jose, April 15, 2015) Convergys Newsroom – Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), global leader in customer management, is hiring 250 new employees for two of its top technology programs. The hiring profile includes English proficiency and internet skills. The company is also hiring Network Engineers with experience in security, routing or switching who want to develop...

Wikimedia Commons Source: Unites States Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica Please note that the US Embassy will be closed on Friday, April 10th 2015 in observance of Juan Santamaria Day ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER: 2015-014 Open to: All Interested Candidates Position: Telephone Operator, FSN-5; FP-9* Opening Date: March 25, 2015 Closing Date: April 15, 2015 Work Hours: Full-time; 40 hour...

San Jose, March 31, 2015 (CINDE). The services sector company, Akamai, plans to expand its operations in Costa Rica in the coming months due to the Costa Rican human talent and the quality of exported services. The company dedicated to improving the speed and safety with which people access Internet services, plans to increase its payroll by 60 new positions by 2016 and will expand its current off...

Source: Flickr Commons Since Monday, the number of complaints by workers who have not received their mandatory holiday bonus, known as Aguinaldo, has climbed to 70. According to a report filed by Jarmon Noguera of daily newspaper La Prensa Libre, the Ministry of Labor has entered 24 judicial actions against employers who have not yet paid the 13th month of pay as dictated by law in Costa Rica....

They are young, undereducated, unemployed, and disenfranchised. In Costa Rica and other parts of Latin America, they are known as the NiNis, an abbreviated portmanteau of “ni estudio, ni trabajo,” which translates into “I don’t study and don’t have a job.” The number of NiNis has been on the rise since 2010, and this has prompted public officials and researchers to take a closer look at this worri...

A medical device outsourcing firm based in Galway, province of Connacht, has acquired the assets of a foreign firm operating in Costa Rica that could result in additional jobs for their manufacturing facility in Heredia, a municipality where outsourcing is a major industry. According to a recent news article by Gavin Daly of the Sunday Times of London, Creganna, a Galway-based medtech group, is li...

One of the most significant information technology trends in recent years has been the learn-to-code movement, endorsed by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and even Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat. To this end, programming boot camps have emerged as popular teaching methods to introduce novices to the intricate world of coding. In Costa Rica, an international coding boot camp has chosen Playa...

Source: Chamber of Construction The first half of 2014 has not been very auspicious for construction firms in Costa Rica, at least compared to previous years. According to forecasts by the national Chamber of Construction, economic activity in this sector has been marred by a loss of 10 percent in terms of square meters built. A major issue has been the United States dollar strengthening to ap...

Just one of the many firms reducing their presence in Costa Rica Economists and public officials who oversee business and industry in Costa Rica are extremely worried about the ongoing exodus of foreign firms that are moving their operations to other countries. This bleeding of capital has been taking place over the last few years, and it became exacerbated in recent days with the announcement...

Journalism is a crowded career field in Costa Rica Biology, journalism and physical therapy are the three least-promising fields of study in Costa Rica. According to a report by daily tabloid La Teja, hundreds of biologists, reporters and physical therapists have given up looking for work in their chosen professional fields and have instead turned to low paying positions in telemarketing, cler...

Source: Flickr CC Equestrian parades in Costa Rica are longstanding holiday traditions that date back several decades; they are known as “topes,” and they are loved by just about everyone who enjoys the sight of magnificently trained horses that elegantly gait and gallop in the expert reins of their riders. After each tope, however, there is an unpleasant task at hand. What happens to all that...

Teaching English is a popular income source for expats in Costa RicaSo, you’d like to move abroad but don’t want to give up the perpetual habit of eating and maintaining a shelter?  No problem!  With some planning, and loads of patience, you can have it all. The five most common ways to earn a living in Costa Rica are: Telecommute Independent Consultant Property Management/ Real Estate ...

Foreign Workers at a Suger Cane Farm in Costa Rica From a macroeconomic point of view, Costa Rica has been mired in contradictions since the beginning of the 21st century. Consumer spending and prosperity are on the rise, but so are inflation and income inequality. With regard to the labor market, the current unemployment rate is the highest the country has experienced in 30 years; but, if you...

Source: Pacific Plaza More than a year after a mostly modest and unassuming inauguration in Costa Rica, the CIMA Hospital in Guanacaste is one of the few medical centers hiring in a region that is experiencing a dilemma with regard to unemployment. The current job vacancies at this fine hospital are for professionals in the fields of microbiology and direct patient care assistance, and they ar...

Costa Rica’s legislators have approved, in first vote, a law that would ensure the rights of domestic service employees in the country. The bill was a result of an agreement between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Government of Costa Rica. Among the regulations of the new law are: -Protection against all forms of abuse, harassment and violence -A weekly rest period of...

Spurred by the closure of the Circunvalación between Hatillo 8 and Pavas, the government has put forth a plan to ease the traffic chaos of San José, with flexible work hours for all government employees. Starting Thursday (19th) all public servants – save for hospital, police and emergency response units like the Cruz Roja (Red Cross) and Bomberos (fire department) – will work from 7am to 3pm, ...

There is a popular adage in Costa Rica, Pide perdón, no permiso. Doing this can get an expat snagged into a big, expensive problem. The saying means “ask forgiveness, not permission.” It is a strategy used by Ticos and expats alike to get things done without going through the normal red tape. The scheme is also used to avoid traffic fines, building permits, payments, and the list is long. Th...

"A little girl?” asked a surprised Paulo Trejos, manager of Hooters restaurant in Escazú, where several customers saw a 10 year old girl apparently working there. A photograph that circulated on Facebook last Sunday shows the little girl working at Hooters with the uniform on. Furthermore, the customer who provided the photograph assures that the child was handing over food and bills to cu...

Workers in Costa Rica have certain legislative protections against sexual harassment, but what about non-sexual badgering and mistreatment such as making fun of someone's appearance or assigning employees tasks that are considered denigrating? The Special Permanent Committee on Women's Affairs of the National Assembly in Costa Rica is looking into the matter and is proposing legislative action. ...

The situation is more and more desperate for local fishermen, and here I’m referring to the ones that have a panga (small fishing boat), canoe or an off-board motor. The capitalist model of extraction and commercialization of fishing resources doesn’t allow for recovery, and the mistaken policies of the people in charge of organizing and directing fishing in Costa Rica, Incopesca (the Costa Ric...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON | Fri Dec 7, 2012 9:10am EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment grew faster than expected in November, but a drop in the unemployment rate to nearly a four-year low as people gave up the search for work suggested the labor market was still tepid. Nonfarm employment increased by 146,000 jobs last month, the Labor Depart...

By Sinead Carew and Noel Randewich NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:49pm EST NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Texas Instruments is eliminating 1,700 jobs, as it winds down its mobile processor business to focus on chips for more profitable markets like cars and home appliances. Texas ...