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Category: Employment TrendsBy anthony balderrama on Dec 30, 2009 in Compensation, Employment Trends, Featured, Job Surveys, Salary, Work/Life | 8 Comments
Yesterday I mentioned that CareerBuilder released its 2010 Job Forecast and that we’d have more info today. And we do!
By anthony balderrama on Dec 29, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Job Surveys | 6 Comments
CareerBuilder.com just released its 2010 Job Forecast, and tomorrow we’ll have all the details. To give you a taste of the good news to come, here’s a clip of spokesperson Michael Erwin on MSNBC. Click here to play the video. (You might receive a pop-up message asking you to open or download the video–you can click Open to [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Dec 16, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Jobs, News | 52 Comments
I’m probably as sick of writing about job loss as you are reading about it. Today I have some good news to report.
Yesterday, the Brookings Institute released the Q3 edition of its MetroMonitor, a “quarterly, interactive barometer of the health of America’s 100 largest metropolitan economies.” The MetroMonitor analyzes trends in U.S. metro employment, unemployment, [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Dec 7, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Jobs, News | 5 Comments
In another indicator that the economy is healing, November’s overall job loss numbers dropped by only -11,000 — less than economists predicted. Additionally, October’s job loss number was revised from -190,000 down to -111,000, and September was revised -219,000 down to -139,000. That’s a sign things are headed in the right direction, but it may not [...]
By rachel zupek on Nov 12, 2009 in Employment, Employment Trends, Part time | 22 Comments
In the past few weeks, we’ve talked a lot about seasonal hiring and we got a huge response to the blog where we posted 10 companies hiring for the holidays. Based on all of your comments, it sounds like a few of you are looking for some more options.
Ask and you shall receive, my friends.
Here [...]
By anthony balderrama on Nov 6, 2009 in Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search, News, Unemployment | 7 Comments
Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released new data and reported 190,000 jobs were lost in October. Although that figure means 190,000 people lost their jobs–a reality no one can be pleased about–it is a better figure than the 219,000 jobs lost in September. Look back to a year ago, when the numbers hit 597,000 [...]
By anthony balderrama on Oct 20, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Jobs | 7 Comments
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a debate about health care going on in this country right now. I don’t imagine any of you are unaware because you can’t read or watch anything without hearing about the debate. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, we’re all going to face a predicament: People are [...]
By rachel zupek on Oct 8, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Fun stuff, Job Surveys | 6 Comments
Have you ever woken up in the morning and thought, “I don’t feel like going to work today”? I know I have. Immediately, I start to think about what excuse I could give that might allow me to stay home and just relax. More often than not, my conscience gets the best of me and [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Oct 2, 2009 in Employment Trends, Featured, Unemployment | 3 Comments
We were waiting for two big announcements this morning at CareerBuilder. One was about Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics – our corporate headquarters are in downtown Chicago — and the other was about September’s unemployment numbers. Well, the Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro and the job losses were higher than expected.
The Labor Department reported that U.S. employers [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Sep 30, 2009 in Compensation, Employment Trends, Featured, Job Surveys, Mature Workers | 5 Comments
Since December 2007, approximately 6.9 million jobs have been lost in the United States. After months of stomach-turning fiscal activity, economists are being cautiously optimistic and employers, faced with a slowing decline in job losses, are tip-toeing carefully through the rest of the year.
The latest Job Forecast from CareerBuilder and USA TODAY shows that, while [...]
