US Census Bureau seeks to fill 800 jobs in Vermont

The US Census Bureau has opened a census office in Vermont to carry out early 2010 operations and is looking for qualified applicants to fill more than 800 jobs across the state. The local census office is located near Burlington. Positions include address listers, office clerks, recruiting assistants, crew leaders and field operations supervisors. The census employees will help develop an address list in spring 2009. The address list will be used to deliver census questionnaires in 2010. The jobs are temporary; some are full time and others part time. Census jobs offer flexible schedules and allow close-to-home employment. Pay starts at $13.50 per hour and varies by job and location. Those interested in applying for these jobs should go to www.2010censusjobs.gov for job descriptions, qualifications and applications. Potential applicants also can call toll free 1-866-861-2010. Applicants must be age 18 and older, U.S. citizens will be given preference and pass a basic aptitude test. Most jobs require a valid driver's license and use of a car.
"It's important that we have qualified people who know their communities to help develop our confidential address list" said Kathleen Ludgate, regional director for the Boston Regional Census Center, which supports 2010 Census operations in New England, upstate New York and Puerto Rico. "These important jobs offer good pay, allow flexible hours and permit people to work in their communities, for their communities. Census jobs count in many ways." In addition to the number of congressional seats, census results are used to determine the shape of legislative districts and local government districts, and how $300 billion in federal funds is distributed annually to communities across the country. The current wave of hiring begins now for the address list development and will be followed by a second wave of hiring that will begin in the fall and continue into 2010. The second wave of hiring will be mainly for census takers. The census takers will go door to door to collect confidential information from people who have not returned their census questionnaires by mail. April 1, 2010 is Census Day, the reference date for collecting census information.
Local application processing and test sites are located throughout Vermont. For more info call 1-866-861-2010.