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Category: Employment TrendsBy 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 anthony balderrama on Feb 25, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Work | 4 Comments
Millennials get a lot of attention these days. For some strange reason everyone seems to be fascinated with the current crop of young workers. Maybe we’re all taking Whitney Houston too seriously when she sings that the children are our future. Regardless, you can’t pick up a newspaper or blog (including this one) without reading [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 10, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Pop culture, Work/Life | 14 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 [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 5, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 19 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 [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 8, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 12 Comments
The BLS released the last unemployment numbers of the year this morning and overall job loss numbers declined by -85,000 in the last month of 2009. Among the largest industries, construction, manufacturing and retail lost jobs, while health care and temporary help services added jobs. In December, both the number of unemployed persons, at 15.3 million, and [...]
By anthony balderrama on Jan 7, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search, Job Surveys | 0 Comments
Some things never change, and even in these tough times, the American mentality of always looking for something new and better is alive. According to a new CareerBuilder survey released today, 19 percent of workers plan to find a new job in 2010. Another 9 percent plan to make their move in 2011. So expect [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Jan 5, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured | 349 Comments
I don’t know about you, but it’s still hard getting back into the swing of things after the holidays. Call me crazy though — I am almost grateful to be back in some type of routine … almost. While thinking about what I wanted to write about today, my uncle Bob e-mailed me with an [...]
By anthony balderrama on Dec 30, 2009 in Compensation, Employment Trends, Featured, Job Surveys, Salary, Work/Life | 26 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 | 16 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 | 61 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, [...]
