Partnership to host job fairs in Seattle,
Denver, Las Vegas, Portland, Phoenix and other cities around the
United States to Meet Increasing Demand For Employment in the
Marijuana Industry
Seattle WA / ACCESSWIRE / Aug 14, 2014
/ AnythingIT/WeedHire (OTCBB: ANYI) today announced
WeedHire.com is joining the Marijuana Business Association (MJBA) a
member-driven trade organization serving the medical marijuana,
recreational and industrial hemp markets, as a Founding
Corporate Member. David Bernstein, CEO of
WeedHire and David Rheins, CEO of MJBA made the, announcement from
MJBA’s Seattle headquarters.
By joining MJBA, WeedHire will work to help shape and build
industry standards and practices as well as establish Weedhire.com
as a leading voice of the industry, and leading resource for jobs
in the marijuana industry.
The Fair Lawn, NJ based Weedhire.com will also be the presenting
sponsor in a series of Job Fairs that MJBA will organize across the
country.
“We are very excited to be a Founding Corporate Member of the
MJBA and bring together top cannabis industry employers and HR
professionals with local job seekers around the United
States. As the so-called Green Rush creates thousands of new
jobs across the country, these events provide an ideal opportunity
for anyone interested in working in the legal marijuana industry to
meet with prospective employers, human resource professionals,
staffing agencies, and other cannabis business professionals,” said
David Bernstein, CEO WeedHire.com
At these employment fairs, job seekers will be treated to
informational presentations from cannabis business thought-leaders,
learn resume and interview tips from HR professionals, and
most-importantly be given the opportunity to submit their resumes
and meet fact-to-face with prospective employers – for real job
openings. Weedhire.com is already seeing increasing demand from
lawyers, physicians, scientists, and other highly-trained and
skilled professionals who want to work in the industry.
“We are thrilled that WeedHire.com is joining MJBA as a Founding
Corporate Member,” said Rheins. “As the leading marijuana
industry trade association, we see the variety of jobs the legal
and medical marijuana industries are creating and appreciate the
opportunities and help that our friends at WeedHire.com are
bringing to those who want to be a part of this emerging
industry.”
According to the Street.com, the marijuana industry in the US
may have already added over 175,000 jobs and that's just the
beginning.
Although Weedhire.com is the central online portal and social
media source for job seekers and providers, it is not be involved
with the growth, sale, or distribution of marijuana. It does
however generate revenues via paid employment recruitment packages
and advertising.
About AnythingIT
AnythingIT manages WeedHire.com and is a leading IT recycler
serving OEM's, Resellers, government and enterprise clients.
Services provided include: data scrubbing, shredding, inventorying,
and resale. Incorporated in 1992, the company is also a GSA
Schedule Holder who has achieved E-Stewards, ISO 9001& 14001
certifications.
ABOUT MJBA
The Marijuana Business Association, called “The
Cannabis Chamber Of Commerce” by NBC News, has quickly established
itself as the authoritative trade resource for participants in the
booming legal marijuana, MMJ and hemp industries. MJBA serves its
membership – producers, processors, retailers and the many
professional service providers who serve them – by providing
Business Intelligence via our network of targeted
web sites, e-letters, publications; Community and
Networking through our professional seminars, conferences
and trade events; and Commercial Opportunity
through our extensive member referral and lead generation
programs.
The voice of legal marijuana in America, MJBA publishes the
popular MJ Headline News on Facebook and MJNewsNetwork.com ,
MJLegalNews.com, MJMoms.com and Marijuana Channel One on
YouTube.
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that may cause actual results to be materially different from any
future results or implied by such statements. These factors
include, but are not limited to, our ability to comply with the
laws, rules and regulations related to medical marijuana, our
ability to identify and consummate business combinations, our
ability to raise sufficient capital to fund our business,
operations and any business combinations, our ability to continue
as a going concern, and a limited public market for our common
stock, among other risks. AnythingIT Inc.’s future results may also
be impacted by other risk factors listed from time to time in its
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For information, please contact:
Thomas Becker
Sitrick and Company
tom_becker@sitrick.com
(212) 573-6100
Stu Zakim
stu@mjba.net
732-754-9051
Source: AnythingIT/WeedHire