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Tess McEnroe | Kalamazoo GazetteIn this file photo from January of 2009. Maestro is a company that specializes in designing employee training programs mainly for medical cooperations and businesses, to use for training purposes. From left, Matt Hodgson, Josh Little, Jen Randall, Meghan Decker, Dan Frazee, Kim Hoogenboom, and Tom Kemp.
TEXAS TOWNSHIP — A local firm that creates online training programs for Fortune 500 firms has been nominated for an award as one of Michigan’s 50 most innovative and fast-growing companies.
Maestro eLearning, which was formed in 2007 by a former employee of both Pharmacia Corp. and Stryker Corp., is in competition with more than 180 other Michigan companies to be one of the 50 Companies to Watch, according to a statement from Maestro.
The award, given by Cassopolis-based Edward Lowe Foundation, will be presented in April to companies that have at least $1 million in revenue and show strong performance in the marketplace, are innovative and have empowered employees.
“We are honored that Maestro’s innovation and success in the e-learning field, and its value to in the business sector and in the community, is being recognized,” said Josh Little, president of Maestro eLearning.
Maestro, which has about 15 employees, grew its sales 487 percent between 2007 and 2008 and has seen about 200 percent growth in 2009, the company statement said. Sales in 2010 are expected to increase about 100 percent.
Maestro has offices in the Michigan Technical Education Center in Texas Township.
The Edward Lowe Foundation’s Companies to Watch program seeks to celebrate so-called second-stage companies that are beyond the start-up phase and in Michigan employ more than 1.3 million workers.
For more information on the awards, go online to 
Mark Bugnaski / Gazette fileCincy Sullivan, manager of the Kalamazoo branch of Michigan Works, helps Norman Nibbe, of Kalamazoo, to post his job qualification skills online in December 2008.
KALAMAZOO — Simply put, there are more job seekers than jobs.
While the unemployment rate for all but three of the metropolitan areas tracked by the state improved in October, the jobless rate for the Kalamazoo-Portage area, which includes all of Kalamazoo and Van Buren counties, was still a scary 11.1 percent.
It was an improvement from 11.7 percent in September. And economist say this will continue to be a relatively jobless recovery; that means the recovery will not include the creation of a lot of new jobs to re-employ the estimated 20,000 area people who need them.
So with the job market competitive, what should job seekers do?
Cincy Sullivan, manager of the Kalamazoo Michigan Works service center, said the first thing any job seeker should do is create a solid resume and post it on the Michigan Works “talent bank” Web site, www.michworks.org. Anyone applying for unemployment compensation must register with the talent bank.
The center, at 1601 S. Burdick St., offers fr