The lack of skilled labor needed to fill in-demand jobs is affecting employers and economies around the globe. Business growth is being hindered and both revenue and productivity are being lost as jobs stay vacant for extended periods of time—consequences of the skills gap noted by a significant number of employers in the 10 largest world economies. Continue reading
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Gambling in the office: March Madness is just the beginning
- March 14th, 2012
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If you’re one of the 58.3 million people who participate in March Madness each year, then the next few weeks might not be your most productive at work.
According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 20 percent of workers say they plan to participate in an NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Championship pool at the office this year, and some admit that they’ll take time out of their workday to keep tabs on how their bracket is doing. Continue reading
Companies hiring this week
- March 13th, 2012
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There’s been some great news surrounding the job market in the past few weeks. Continue reading
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 227,000 jobs were added in February, and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent, the lowest it’s been in three years.
6 jobs that are in demand now
- March 9th, 2012
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After years of disappointing employment news, it looks like the job market has finally made a definitive turn in the right direction.
Over the past three months, the economy has added 721,000 jobs, or an average of 245,000 jobs per month, marking one of the greatest periods of job growth since before the recession. Continue reading
Dream job: You could be the Chicago Cubs next ball boy or girl
- March 7th, 2012
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If you’ve always dreamed of working for a professional baseball team, here’s your chance. The Chicago Cubs are hiring ball boys and girls to work home games at Wrigley Field this summer, and you could be one of them.
The team is searching for four new staff members to handle job duties including:
Monitoring out-of-play lines for right and left field
Retrieving foul balls
Delivering new balls to the home plate umpire
Serving as a brand representative for the Cubs
Interacting with fans
25 best-paying jobs for women
- March 7th, 2012
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In the past 30 years, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed considerably. In 1979, the year the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking salary information by gender, women earned just 62 percent of what men did. Earlier this year, the BLS reported that, in the fourth quarter of 2011, that figure had risen nearly 20 percent. Continue reading
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