Feb 20 Trade Fair !

Inaugural manufacturing trade fair set for Feb. 20
Gary Quackenbush, Special to the Business Journal
Monday, February 4, 2013, 5:05 am

PETALUMA — More than half of the exhibitors present 25 of the 41, or 61
percent have jobs waiting to be filled right now, and others plan to
ramp hiring activities during the year ahead.

Keynote speaker Patrick Harper, manufacturing manager for Agilent
Technologies in Santa Rosa, said that while his firm’s recruitment
program has leveled off, one third of Agilent’s employees are expected
to retire in five years and another third will do the same ten years
from now.