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By Kate Lorenz on Mar 17, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, Mature Workers | 2 Comments
Who invented the standard nine-to-five workday? He or she must have been a morning person because if I were setting the workday hours, I’d push it to start at 10 a.m. at the earliest. Why?
While I’d love to be the type of person who just jumps out of bed alert and perky every day, it [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 15, 2010 in Ask The Work Buzz!, Featured, Job Search | 11 Comments
Last week we kicked off our contest, Talk to The Work Buzz! You submitted your great questions about interviews and we picked one to answer. Our winner is getting a copy of the book Career Building.
We like you. You like prizes. So we’re back with a new topic for the contest. This week we want [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 10, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, Video, Web/Tech, Work/Life | 2 Comments
They do it while walking — oh so slowly — down the sidewalk. They do it at the gym. They do it at the movies. They even do it in the bathroom.
They are using their smart phones. While some people are checking out Facebook, getting directions, reading the news or just plain addicted, many are still on the [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 5, 2010 in Employment Trends, News, Unemployment | 2 Comments
We’ve been a little crazed here at TheWorkBuzz lately and just realized the day has passed without posting our regular breakdown of the BLS’s monthly unemployment numbers. Luckily, our colleagues at TheHiringSite.com have already written about that very subject so we’ll refer you to their post.
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 5, 2010 in Featured, Mature Workers, Resume, Video | 1 Comment
When a house has been on the market for an extended time without an offer or even a showing, homeowners often get help staging their property and even make over important rooms, like kitchens and bathrooms. When it comes to your job search, perhaps you should use this approach with your resume.
With electronic job applications and [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 10, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Pop culture, Work/Life | 6 Comments
When you think of TV’s most famous romantic duos — Jim and Pam, McDreamy and Meredith, Turk and Carla, Sam and Diane, Mr. Burns and Smithers – they all have one thing in common: They met on the job.
But when it comes to finding love, it’s not just reserved for primetime. Regardless of the economy, [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 5, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 6 Comments
The BLS released January’s jobs report this morning, and while it wasn’t complete cause for celebration, it was encouraging. The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged, down -20,000 compared to -779,000 in January 2009.
Here are the highlights:
The number of unemployed persons decreased to 14.8 million
Employment [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 29, 2010 in Featured, Job Search, Mature Workers, Unemployment | 23 Comments
Although there are signs the economy is healing, there are still 15.3 million unemployed workers in America according to the most recent BLS data. Among those unemployed, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) continued to trend up, reaching 6.1 million in December 2009. That means 4-in-10 unemployed workers have been jobless for [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 27, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Job Search, Mature Workers, Video | 14 Comments
When you really want to — need to — work, is there anything worse than being unemployed? How about being long-term unemployed?
The number of long-term unemployed people (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) grew to 6.1 million in December 2009, according to the most recent BLS data. That means that four-in-ten unemployed workers were jobless for [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 20, 2010 in Featured, Interviews, Job Search, Video | 20 Comments
It’s a new season of American Idol which means another batch of entertaining, yet all-too-often painful first-round tryouts in front of the judges panel. While some people get up there and blow the judges away by simply showcasing their skill and talents, others are memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Watching the tryouts is actually good for anyone who is [...]
