Charleston, WV jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Charleston

• Community Relations Representative IIElevance Health
• Specialty Account Manager, Long Term Care (Charleston, WV)Axsome Therapeutics
• Senior Bridge Engineerexp
• News DirectorSinclair
• Newscast Director and EditorSinclair
• Project Manager - Water ResourcesTop Echelon Network (recruiter member boards)
• Procurement SpecialistOffice of Shared Administration (WV)
• B2B Outside Sales RepresentativeGlobal Payments
• Sales Representative - West Virginia - Interventional SpineStryker Sales
• Diabetes Sales Specialist - Charleston, WVAbbott Laboratories

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Employers hiring most in Charleston

1. Worley Group4 open roles
2. Air National Guard Units3 open roles
3. Army National Guard Units3 open roles
4. EY3 open roles
5. Powerx3 open roles
6. Aspen Careers2 open roles
7. Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys2 open roles
8. Graybar2 open roles
9. Helion2 open roles
10. Morgan & Morgan2 open roles

Charleston layoffs

No layoff notices naming Charleston in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Colleges in Charleston

Conferences in Charleston

Industry conferences and trade shows held in Charleston. No dates announced yet for the next edition.

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Kanawha County outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 3.6% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 4.3% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.4%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,819 jobs), wholesale (+351 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−452 jobs), retail (−325 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Charleston

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Charleston. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in West Virginia? How to file for unemployment in West Virginia (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• Region III Workforce Development Board of Kanawha County, Inc.

  Kanawha

• Workforce WV - Charleston

  Charleston · Comprehensive

  Monday through Friday 8:30 to 4:30

Kanawha County economy

• 3.4%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.2% the month before

• 77,661

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 178,198

  people in Kanawha County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $58,887

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 41%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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