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By Jennifer Larson Pre-Employment Background Checks For Job Applicants These days it’s assumed that when you apply for a job, a pre-employment background check will take place before an employer will consider hiring any applicant. A pre-employment check looks back several years, mainly for any past and recent criminal activity. Almost every major corporation and […]
Continue reading …It isn’t exactly time to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again” but a number of economic indicators point to an improving U.S. job market during the next few months. The week ending 12 Nov. 2011, fewer Americans than forecast filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance. Applications for unemployment benefits declined 5,000 in the week ended […]
Continue reading …Federal contractor Nishimoto Trading Co. will pay $400,000 in back wages and interest to 71 women rejected for sales associate positions at the company’s Santa Fe Springs, Calif., facility to settle findings of hiring discrimination, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. “Those who do business with our government are […]
Continue reading …Bad times mean staying put. The percentage of people who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 ─ 11.6% ─ was the lowest recorded rate since 1948. when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting statistics on the movement of people in the United States. The rate, which was 20.2% in 1985, declined to a then-record low of […]
Continue reading …Anything you say and do on the Internet can and will be used against you. Managing your e-reputation is critical in an era when anyone with a will and an Internet connection can gather a vast amount of details about nearly anyone in no time at all. This is increasingly true when it comes to […]
Continue reading …A new study by financial services firm USAA and Military.com finds that Nassau, N.Y., is the best metro area for military retirees to start their post-service careers. The study, “Best Places for Military Retirement: Second Careers” lists the U.S. metro areas most likely to offer employment opportunities for military retirees, while maximizing military benefits and […]
Continue reading …Few things in life can hit you as hard emotionally than being unemployed. Even if you’ve been laid off before or you knew the layoff was coming, the act of being rendered jobless stings. Fortunately there are many positive ways to cope with emotional toll that come with unemployment. Here’s one how-to take from four […]
Continue reading …Farmland in Vietnam is being gobbled up for development at the rate of 17,000 hectares — more than 65 square miles — per year, putting an annual average 238,000 poorly educated rural farmers out of work in the process. Vietnam’s Communist government reports a “high” rate of rural unemployment of 3.74% during the first 9 […]
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