The Work Buzz

What do ferryboats, tattoos and running 26.2 miles have in common? According to some experts, they are just a handful of industries that are showing the most promise these days.

Over the last two-and-a-half years, we’ve written a lot on recession-proof jobs and the future’s most-wanted workers, but boy were we missing some. Continue reading

At first look, the BLS’s June unemployment numbers give a sharp contrast to May’s large jump in employment. But like every month, we’re going to look at these numbers a little closer.

Said one report in the NY Times:

Just as last month’s government job report appeared deceptively robust, swollen as it was by 411,000 workers hired by the federal government to help with the census, so the June report appears deceptively anemic, as the government is shedding many of those same temporary census workers. Continue reading

This week we are attending the annual conference of the Society of Human Resources – the Lollapalooza of HR, if you will. We’re hitting the sessions to learn the inside scoop about the employer side of recruitment and employee engagement and pass them on to you, the job seeker. Continue reading

People are losing their jobs left and right these days, and it’s not because of the economy. It’s because of what they say.

Recently, President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his job as commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan because of negative remarks he and his aides made about several officials in the Obama administration that were published in a Rolling Stone magazine article. Continue reading

Whether you’re a recent grad or a career changer, there’s a common catch-22 that comes with embarking on a new occupation: You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job.

 How many of us have said, “I’ve got the brains and the know-how, I just need the chance to prove it and start building my experience”? Continue reading

Even as the job market slowly improves, unemployment still continues to be high, which means competition for open positions remains tough in many areas.

CareerBuilder’s annual survey about unusual tactics came out recently and it turns out more and more job seekers are trying everything and anything to stand out from their competitors. Continue reading

For the fifth consecutive month, employment grew by 431,000 in May — the largest single month gain in jobs since March 2000 — while the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7 percent.

According to the BLS, temporary census hiring accounted for about 411,000 jobs and private-sector employment rose by a modest 41,000. Continue reading

Recently, the staff here was challenged to take part in a fitness competition to encourage health and wellness among employees. It didn’t take long for people to choose teams and begin strategizing so they could claim the sweet reward of a body to rival those soccer players gracing this month’s cover of Vanity Fair —and a nice prize goes to the winning team. Continue reading

Whenever I think of summer jobs, the first thing that comes to mind is “Meatballs” and those wacky CITs from Camp North Star. Sure they complained and wanted pity — the kids were brats; the food was hideous – but you know they were having fun. Continue reading

With the addition of 573,000 nonfarm payroll jobs since December, American workers are feeling more optimistic about their employment prospects. Those who had all but given up their job searches have started to re-enter the job market, which accounted for the rise in the unemployment rate in April despite the job growth. Continue reading