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MoneyWatch – How to Use Google to Get a Job
11/10/2011 Comments Off on MoneyWatch – How to Use Google to Get a Job
A good how-to on using Google in a job search. From moneywatch.bnet.com – How to Use Google to Get a Job With the economy in a state of slow recovery and an influx of recent grads in the job market, many Americans are searching for work. Trends from Google Search reveal that an increasing number […]
Continue reading …Uganada’s Youth Unemployment 83%, Young Lazy Official Says
10/10/2011 Comments Off on Uganada’s Youth Unemployment 83%, Young Lazy Official Says
Kyateka Mondo, said the high unemployment rate should not only be blamed on government but also on the youth. From the Uganda Daily Monitor: Kampala, Uganda – As Uganda continues to grapple with high rates of population growth, the level of unemployment among the youth has also shot high to a remarkable 83%, youth group, […]
Continue reading …Abu Dhabi Seeks to Cut Nation’s Unemployment
09/10/2011 Comments Off on Abu Dhabi Seeks to Cut Nation’s Unemployment
Heading recent events in nearby Arab nations, another oil state is quickly creating a jobs program for its indigenous population. In this story from Gulf News, Abu Dhabi‘s Department of Economic Development (DED) says it will reduce unemployment rate to less than 5% by 2030 “by providing job opportunities for UAE jobseekers,” according to Rashid Ali Al […]
Continue reading …10 States Losing the Most Jobs to China
09/10/2011 Comments Off on 10 States Losing the Most Jobs to China
From 24/7 Wall St. China is taking American jobs, labor unions, politicians and economists, have accused for some time. The logic is simple. While a manufacturing job in the U.S. may pay $50 an hour, when salary and benefits are factored in, Chinese factory laborers make little more than a few hundred dollars a month. […]
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The Friday, 7 Oct. 2011, Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 103,000 jobs were added in September. The jobs number includes about 45,000 striking Verizon workers returning to work, making the number net new jobs created in September about 58,000. This sluggish job growth continued the trend of the past five […]
Continue reading …Infographic: The High Cost Dropping Out of College
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Infographic: The High Cost Dropping Out of College
Infographic: The High Cost Dropping Out of College
Continue reading …Giving Workers With Disabilities a Chance Can Pay Off
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Giving Workers With Disabilities a Chance Can Pay Off
The disabled are a huge pool of talent that most American employers won’t even consider. From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch:It’s an abysmal fact, but one that pales when held alongside another national statistic: the unemployment rate among Americans with disabilities is a whopping 70 percent — and holding. There are plenty of reasons for such […]
Continue reading …Study Finds Internet Job Search Reduces Time Unemployed By 25%
06/10/2011 Comments Off on Study Finds Internet Job Search Reduces Time Unemployed By 25%
A new study conducted by professors from University of Colorado and the University of California finds that conducting and Internet job search reduces the time spent unemployed by an average of 25%. The discovery directly contradicts a 2004 study showing that using the Internet actually prolonged unemployment. “In 2004 the researchers came up with two […]
Continue reading …Ford Reaches Tentative Contract with UAW
04/10/2011 Comments Off on Ford Reaches Tentative Contract with UAW
Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union (UAW) have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year labor contract covering approximately 41,000 UAW-represented employees in the United States. The agreement comes a month after the UAW successfully negotiated a new contract with General Motors. The UAW reached a tentative agreement with GM on Sept. […]
Continue reading …Women of HR – Is the Good Ol’ Boy Network Just a Myth?
04/10/2011 Comments Off on Women of HR – Is the Good Ol’ Boy Network Just a Myth?
The Women of HR blog asks a provocative question: “Is the good ol’ boy network just a myth?” From Women of HR: The following are a few hypothetical (not really) life stories related to human resources, being a woman in what is still in some circles ‘a man’s world’ and organizational behavior. Read the original […]
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