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Category: Employment TrendsBy Kate Lorenz on May 7, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, News | 26 Comments
This morning the BLS reported employment rose by 290,000 in April, surpassing economists’ predictions of 185,000. Since December, nonfarm payroll employment has expanded by 573,000, with 483,000 jobs added in the private sector. In an additional bit of good news, the BLS revised the numbers from February and March: February was revised from -14,000 to [...]
By Kate Lorenz on May 6, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search, Job Surveys | 61 Comments
College senior Kaitlin Ripple has always known the business world was competitive. Yet when she started Baldwin-Wallace College, located in a suburb outside of Cleveland, Ohio, she had no way of knowing how cutthroat it would be when she finally received her diploma. Now with graduation days away, Ripple is contemplating her next move. While she’d [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Apr 27, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search, Mature Workers | 531 Comments
This spring there seems to have been an explosion of positive employment news that’s left skeptics wondering, “Is this news too good to be true?” and job seekers crying foul. While we are not out of the woods yet, President Barack Obama was cautiously optimistic in a recent radio address. “Even as we have come [...]
By anthony balderrama on Apr 19, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search | 9 Comments
New technological tools are often hailed as breakthroughs that will revolutionize our daily lives. Think of the iPhone’s arrival a few years ago. Many of these much-heralded items fizzle away with little notice. And then others sneak up on us. Facebook went from a niche college site in 2004 to a somewhat essential part of [...]
By anthony balderrama on Apr 15, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search | 185 Comments
Between May and June, on college campuses throughout the country, you can sense a level of excitement that is usually reserved for $1 beer night or when parents finally drive away after a weekend visit. That excitement comes from graduation and the fact that students (at least for a few months) are done with exams, [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Apr 2, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, News, Video | 13 Comments
We’re not out of the woods yet, but Americans got some good news this morning regarding employment. The BLS reported that nonfarm payroll employment rose by 162,000 in March, and the unemployment rate was 9.7 percent for the third month in a row. This welcome news comes on the heels of CareerBuilder’s latest job forecast [...]
By anthony balderrama on Apr 1, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Job Surveys | 11 Comments
Job seekers, employers, analysts and any other person who’s paid attention to the news for the last two years has been looking for signs that the economy has a brighter future. Well, optimists, we might have what you’re looking for. Today CareerBuilder and USA Today released their quarterly job forecast, and for the third consecutive [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 18, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Jobs, News | 4 Comments
If you watch or read any news — and I hope you do — then you know legislation about health care is the talk of the town these days. The health bill has become the Kate and Jon Gosselin of 2010, except it’s actually important and affects our lives. Lost in the coverage, however, is [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 16, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Work/Life | 44 Comments
Two weeks ago, I posted about a Gallup survey that asked workers whether or not their jobs are ideal. One trend that emerged from the survey highlighted young workers and their dissatisfaction with their jobs. Dissatisfaction might be misleading, but the young workers are less likely than their older colleagues to consider their jobs ideal. [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 9, 2010 in Employment Trends, Jobs, News | 8 Comments
“Where exactly are these jobs you keep talking about?” That is one of the questions we frequently receive here at The Work Buzz. And we do our best to point you in the right direction. Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics made locating these open positions a simpler task by releasing the current January Job Openings and [...]
