Kaitlin Madden is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder. She spends her time at work thinking and writing about work, and thus views her workday as one big social experiment. Prior to joining CareerBuilder, she was a freelance writer and spent some time working in fashion in New York City. She hates meetings and honors her love of shoes with a large collection under her desk. Kaitlin hails from Connecticut and graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a degree in journalism. 
Is that a co-worker knocking on your office door, or is it love? Turns out, there’s a good chance it could be both.
Dating a colleague may be considered a faux pas at many companies, but that’s not stopping workers from doing it anyway. Continue reading
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment report, and the news was good: The economy added 247,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest it’s been in three years.
Perhaps even better news is that employment seems to be growing across a variety of industries: Professional and business services, health care, retail and hospitality are just a few of the fields that grew last month. Continue reading
After news last month that the economy added 200,000 jobs in December, there was talk that January’s job numbers would be disappointing by comparison. Economists had predicted the economy would gain just 135,000 jobs in January.
It was more than a pleasant surprise then, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly employment report showed that 243,000 jobs were added in January, the largest monthly gain since April 2011. Continue reading
If you don’t have Facebook Timeline already, you will soon. Over the course of the next month, Facebook will be pushing out its updated design to all users.
While Facebook Timeline is primarily a cosmetic change that will affect the layout of your profile, it also comes with a number of functional modifications that will make it easier for others to see your Facebook history and parts of your profile: potentially embarrassing photos, status updates from your college years and what your friends have posted on your wall since the day you joined Facebook. Continue reading
Have you ever had a friend who claimed to be a model, but you suspected that he or she really wasn’t one? She may have had “model” listed as her job on Facebook, or he may have had dozens of glamour shots posted on ModelMayhem.com, but you never saw an actual ad campaign or commercial? Continue reading
All eyes were on President Barack Obama as he delivered what was potentially his final State of the Union address. One of the central issues discussed in his speech? Jobs. And rightly so.
Though Obama cited recent improvements in the job market — the country has regained more than 3 million jobs in the past 22 months — it’s also clear that we still have a way to go. Continue reading
Whether you plan your life around your horoscope (“The sun is in my commitment house! I am SO finding love this month”), or you think the zodiac is utter nonsense, you’re probably familiar with your Western zodiac sign. You know whether you’re a Scorpio or an Aries, and you might even be familiar with the personality traits, relationship patterns and career preferences to which your sign predisposes you. Continue reading
We’ve got a big weekend coming up. So big that it’s only Tuesday and we’re already going to talk about it.
First up is South Carolina’s presidential primary on Saturday. Will Mitt Romney solidify his position as the Republican Party front-runner? Continue reading
Millennials have been nicknamed “The Facebook Generation.” So what better way to gain insight on the youngest members of the workforce than through the social media technology they’ve become synonymous with?
Millennial Branding, a Boston-based personal branding agency, has released a study of more than 50 million Facebook data points from Identified.com in the hopes of uncovering more about where Millennials work, what their job titles are and the role that social media play in their careers. Continue reading
There’s no question that job searching gets harder after 50. Although age discrimination is illegal, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Many employers have preconceived notions about older workers. Among the most common: Their salaries are high, their energy is low and they’re not up-to-date on the latest technologies. Continue reading
