Mary is a copywriter for CareerBuilder, specializing in B2B marketing and corporate recruiting best practices and social media. In addition to creating copy for corporate advertising and marketing campaigns, she researches and writes about employee attraction, engagement and retention. Whenever possible, she makes references to pop culture. Sometimes, those references are even relevant. A New Orleans native, Mary now lives in Chicago, right down the street from the best sushi place in the city. It’s awesome. 
According to a new CareerBuilder study, 69 percent of employers report that their companies have been adversely affected by a bad hire this year, with 41 percent of those businesses estimating the cost to be more than $25,000, and 24 percent saying a bad hire cost them more than $50,000. Continue reading
Nearly 20 percent of workers plan to participate in March Madness at the office this year, according to CareerBuilder’s annual survey on the celebrated spring pasttime.
Unsurprisingly, more men than women plan to participate in office pools, at 28 percent of men versus 11 percent of women. Continue reading
Some months, I wish the BLS’ Employment Situation Report had a face, just so I could punch it. (Who’s with me? Anyone?)
February, however, was not one of those months.
Not only did the economy add 192,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate fell to its lowest rate in two years: 8.9 percent. Continue reading
If there’s one thing American workers love, it’s each other…at least if a new survey on office romance is any indication.
According to CareerBuilder’s Annual Valentine’s Day Survey, nearly 40 percent of workers say they have dated someone they worked with over the course of their careers, and another 18 percent really get around have done so at least twice. Of those who have dated a colleague, 30 percent went on to marry that person. Continue reading
Much like the comically large scale on the Biggest Loser that refuses to budge, no matter how much those hopeful contestants – and the American viewing audience – want it to, this month’s unemployment report offered nothing but disappointment and confusion for the millions of hopeful Americans looking to it for significant signs of progresss. Continue reading
Missing out on the opportunity to catch up on the always-entertaining-for-one-reason-or-another The View, 72 percent of workers go to work when they are sick, according to a new survey released today by CareerBuilder. Evidently, “presenteeism” and workplace pressures outweigh the desire to see the ridiculous charming banter between Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg, as more than half of those workers (55 percent) say they feel guilty if they call in sick. Continue reading
