The CareerBuilder.com Job Seeker Blog
Category: JobsBy anthony balderrama on Apr 20, 2010 in Featured, Job Search, Jobs | 25 Comments
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we (your faithful Work Buzz crew) realize you (our dear readers) come to the blog for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is the desire to find a new job. We do our best to point you in the right direction with our monthly hiring [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 30, 2010 in Featured, Job Search, Jobs, Mature Workers, Work | 164 Comments
Of the many things the recession messed up — and I think we can all agree it really ruined a lot — plans were the biggest victim. Once the economy went kaput, your future suddenly became a little less certain. Could you afford to maintain your lifestyle? Was it the best time to switch jobs? [...]
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 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 [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 4, 2010 in Current Affairs, Featured, Jobs, News | 14 Comments
After a lot of sound and even more fury, the House of Representatives finally passed a $15 billion jobs bill. (Yes, billion.) The bill has been debated, criticized, lauded, feared, analyzed and everything else you can possibly do to a bill. The final vote was 217-201.
By anthony balderrama on Feb 16, 2010 in Careers, Featured, Fun Jobs, Fun stuff, Jobs | 48 Comments
Oprah, Letterman, Leno, Chelsea (and Conan, once upon a time) — all earn pretty paychecks talking. Sure, Oprah oversees a multimedia empire and Leno has his comedy career, but their primary jobs are hosting talk shows and gabbing with guests. They all have the same career — basically chitchatting in front of the world. That’s [...]
By anthony balderrama on Feb 9, 2010 in Featured, Jobs, Telecommuting | 18 Comments
Working from home isn’t exactly a new concept, so I was surprised to see it was a headline story on NPR today. Then I read the actual story, which is yet another lesson not to judge a book by its cover or an article by its headline. Adam Hochberg’s article and the accompanying audio story [...]
By anthony balderrama on Jan 28, 2010 in Featured, Job Search, Jobs, News, Unemployment | 13 Comments
If you’re like millions of Americans, you tuned into President Obama’s State of the Union address last night. If you’re like millions of Americans, you might have tuned in accidentally because you forgot it was on and went to watch Modern Family, only to find Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos chatting with each other. So [...]
By anthony balderrama on Dec 22, 2009 in Featured, Fun stuff, Jobs, Pop culture | 51 Comments
Lights! Camera! Fantasy! Movies are where we go to forget how boring our lives are. Well, unless you’re into obscure independent movies that aim to capture our tortured, meaningless existence in gritty, hand-held camerawork. But on average, movies let us disappear into the celluloid world for a couple of hours and get lost in the [...]
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, [...]
