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Category: NewsBy Kate Lorenz on Jun 4, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, News | 15 Comments
For the fifth consecutive month, employment grew by 431,000 in May — the largest single month gain in jobs since March 2000 — while the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7 percent. According to the BLS, temporary census hiring accounted for about 411,000 jobs and private-sector employment rose by a modest 41,000. Manufacturing, temporary help services [...]
By Kaitlin Madden on Jun 2, 2010 in Current Affairs, Featured, News | 5 Comments
Experts have already deemed the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as the worse environmental disaster in U.S. history — but when all is said and done, the catastrophe might also be considered one of our nation’s worst in terms of its effect on employment. Since the Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, dozens of professions have [...]
By anthony balderrama on May 27, 2010 in Featured, News, Work/Life | 35 Comments
Last week we wrote about a possible new trend where companies require their employees to avoid any online mention of the organization. And before that, we (and everyone else) explained why you need to be careful about your online behavior and how you can keep your reputation professional. Even if you blog or post on [...]
By Kate Lorenz on May 17, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, News, Work/Life | 1 Comment
Recently, the staff here was challenged to take part in a fitness competition to encourage health and wellness among employees. It didn’t take long for people to choose teams and begin strategizing so they could claim the sweet reward of a body to rival those soccer players gracing this month’s cover of Vanity Fair —and a nice [...]
By 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 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 Kate Lorenz on Mar 24, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, News | 73 Comments
What happens when you make a verbal blunder at work? Can you recover? Should you apologize? Should you even acknowledge it? It all depends on what you say, whom you say it to and who overhears it, says Joseph Grenny, co-author of “Crucial Conversations.” “It doesn’t just happen to news correspondents or politicians,” Grenny says. [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 23, 2010 in Featured, News, Work | 590 Comments
The people we work with are so many things to us. Heck, even our question of the week invites you to ask us your questions about co-workers! And just on this blog alone we’ve learned the following about colleagues: They keep us from feeling alienated. They gamble with us. They make for good dates (sometimes). [...]
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 [...]
