number just to build up and hopefully it 'll keep coming , '' said college student Erika Miller , who is looking for summer work . Read the full report on WSJV South : Famed New Orleans hotel closed after Katrina hiring hundreds The Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans , Louisiana , is almost ready to reopen after being shuttered after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 . After undergoing a $ 145 million renovation , the hotel will be staffed by 400 employees . This past week , more than 5,000 job seekers came to a job fair at the downtown landmark . Some of the people hired will begin in a few weeks , while others will start later . `` We are looking to make some additional hires in September and in October when business picks up , '' Roosevelt employee Melissa Kariker told WDSU . One applicant at the fair had worked previously at the hotel . `` I started my career with the Fairmont-Roosevelt , '' Gregory Smith said . `` I worked in the Blue Room for several years . '' Read the report on WDSU Midwest : Newspaper giving away space for ` Hire
Editor 's note : CNN affiliates report on where job seekers are finding work across the country and how those looking for employment are coping with the situation . Workers at the Jayco plant in Elkhart County in Indiana put together a travel trailer in February . -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Elkhart , Indiana , has suffered through a litany of economic bad news and layoffs . The United States Department of Labor said that in March , the Elkhart metropolitan area had the fifth highest unemployment in the country . Just last year the Monaco Coach Corp. closed down its motor home assembly plants in Elkhart , Nappanee and Wakarusa . But Electric Motors Corp. , which builds engines , cars and trucks , is moving into Elkhart County and bringing hundreds of jobs . `` Their production working skills will be a little bit different than RV workers , but not that much different . We 'll easily be able to train the workers , '' County Commissioner Mike Yoder told WSJV . Neither the company nor government officials would comment on how many jobs could potentially be created . `` It 's good to get a small