IBM announces job fair to begin filling Baton Rouge positions

Just one day after announcing plans to open a $55 million technology center on the downtown riverfront—a project that local and state officials are calling a game changer for Baton Rouge—IBM today announced a forthcoming job fair to begin filling some of the 800 jobs that will eventually be created by the project. “We have immediate opportunities for forward-thinking Application Development Specialists with technical degrees,” reads an announcement for the job fair, to be held Tuesday, April 23, at the Baton Rouge Marriott. IBM says initial job offerings will be available for “all levels of experience.” As a prelude to the job fair on April 23, IBM says it will hold a “campus blitz” between April 8 and April 19 at LSU, Southern University, Southeastern Louisiana University, UL Lafayette, UNO and other schools to target senior students and recent grads. In addition to the 800 jobs that will be created at the IBM center over the next four years, LSU estimates the project will also result in approximately 542 new indirect jobs in the Capital Region. Lean more about the April 23 job fair here. To see a gallery of renderings of the IBM center, click here; and read more about IBM’s Baton Rouge plans from Daily Report here.