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Infographic – How To Craft The Perfect Resume For The Digital Age
21/03/2012 Comments Off on Infographic – How To Craft The Perfect Resume For The Digital Age
How To Craft The Perfect Resume For The Digital Age Writing, formatting and sending a resume to its intended recipient is a tricky proposition these days. Often the format of your resume and your choice of words determine whether your resume will make it through your perspective employer’s “talent management: software. So what to do? […]
Continue reading …Analysis – ‘Medical Cost-Shifting’ The Ripple Effect Of Uncompensated Health Care
20/03/2012 Comments Off on Analysis – ‘Medical Cost-Shifting’ The Ripple Effect Of Uncompensated Health Care
By WENDELL POTTER, iWatchNews– If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of the […]
Continue reading …Career Lessons From Interviews With Idiots
19/03/2012 Comments Off on Career Lessons From Interviews With Idiots
By PENELOPE TRUNK — In case you’ve never noticed, I rarely interview anyone for this column. Most of my sources are family and unsuspecting friends who complain that I make everyone look bad. But it is not true. It is true that they THINK I make them look bad, but in fact, I could rip […]
Continue reading …Infographic – Clocked In – Annual And Weekly Working Hours Around The World
14/03/2012 Comments Off on Infographic – Clocked In – Annual And Weekly Working Hours Around The World
Working Hours Around The World (click graphic to view full-size)
Continue reading …NLRB Considers Office Consolidations
13/03/2012 Comments Off on NLRB Considers Office Consolidations
The National Labor Relations Board is considering a program that would consolidate regional offices in St. Louis, Mo. (Region 14) and Kansas City, Kan. (Region 17). The pilot would also move the office in Peoria, Ill., from the jurisdiction of the St. Louis office to that of the regional office in Indianapolis, In. (Region 25). […]
Continue reading …While Canada Recruits Overseas Alberta Develops Homegrown Workforce
12/03/2012 Comments Off on While Canada Recruits Overseas Alberta Develops Homegrown Workforce
While Canadian companies recruit in Ireland in search of skilled workers, some provinces still have very high unemployment rates in certain areas, especially among native peoples. In the oil-boom town of Calgary, Alberta, the unemployment rate dropped to 5.2% in February 2012 from 5.4% in January 2012. In Edmonton, Alberta, the January unemployment rate was […]
Continue reading …Networking Tips For Women – Four Ways To Shatter The Glass Ceiling
08/03/2012 Comments Off on Networking Tips For Women – Four Ways To Shatter The Glass Ceiling
By PENELOPE TRUNK — One of the reasons the Glass Ceiling persists is because networking is key to getting ahead and women are not as effective as men at building a network. For one thing, men, more than women, are likely to be invited out to dinner (since men are doing the inviting). Also, men, more […]
Continue reading …Monster Behind The Job Board At CeBIT
07/03/2012 Comments Off on Monster Behind The Job Board At CeBIT
There’s a Monster behind the job board at CeBIT digital tradeshow taking place this week in Hanover, Germany. Job search giant Monster Worldwide, Inc., is the powering job board at CeBIT, the world’s largest information technology and telecommunications trade fair. The “CeBIT Job Centre powered by Monster” has nearly 11,000 IT jobs posted. During CeBIT, […]
Continue reading …Infographic – Building A Work Wardrobe When You Haven’t Been Paid Yet
07/03/2012 Comments Off on Infographic – Building A Work Wardrobe When You Haven’t Been Paid Yet
Infographic – How To Build A Work Wardrobe When You Haven’t Even Gotten Paid Yet It never hurts to dress for success. But when you don’t have much money, obtaining suitable business attire – a work wardrobe – no matter what the job, can be a source of stress. This handy infographic illustrates how to […]
Continue reading …EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases
06/03/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases
EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases By LAURA LIEBECK — American workers prevailed in three separate discrimination cases recently settled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In Tennessee, the owners of Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in Hartsville and Lafayette, Tn., must pay $40,000 to settle a race and gender discrimination lawsuit filed […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill