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Job Markets
Viewpoint: The Art of Badmouthing Good Jobs News
If there’s one thing that Americans for Prosperity won’t tolerate, it’s prosperity.
That was the message from the group’s leader following this morning’s economic news: a better-than-expected employment report, and the upward revision of figures for the prior two months. “Reckless spending, higher debt, and ever-higher …
4 Key Financial Moves After Landing a New Job
The job market remains difficult. But mobility is better than it has been in a few years. If you are switching employers, here are 4 financial moves to help you stay on tack.
Is High Unemployment Making Us All Sick?
Our persistently high unemployment rate is not only bad for the economy, it’s bad for our bodies and souls as well. Unemployment wears down the unemployed both mentally and physically. But high unemployment also hurts those …
What Type of Worker Are You? Your Next Boss May Want to Know
Employees who are interested in their jobs perform better than their disinterested peers. So how do hiring managers go about finding the legitimately interested and passionate?
Steadiest, Fastest-Growing Jobs: Service Gigs That Pay Poorly
In a tough job market, the industries that are growing the quickest and have been hiring like crazy are offering jobs with meager wages and duties that many workers find beneath them.
There’s One Upside For Unemployed Older Workers: Happiness
A recent study suggests that there’s at least one upside for the millions of beleaguered older Americans among the nation’s long-term unemployed: Unlike their working peers, retirement — officially calling it quits –actually …
What Older Workers Want
70 is the new 50 at work these days. A new survey about what older workers want shows how much our timeline has changed.
The New Normal: From Families to Nobel Winners, It’s All About Less
The wealth of American families has fallen to levels last seen in the early 1990s. Yet a shrinking payout for Nobel Prize winners suggests that even our brightest minds must adjust to the new normal.
How to Get a Job? Beat the Machines
As most anyone who has recently applied for a job knows, hiring has changed dramatically in recent years. The Internet has replaced job advertisements in newspapers, one of the key factors driving the financial decline of the …
Summer Jobs Market Bounces Back — But Most Teens Won’t Work Anyway
Hey teenagers, your chances of landing a summer job appear to have vastly improved. A new report shows that the number of teenagers hired in May 2012 was more than double the figure from May 2011, indicating that the jobs market …
How to Make Recruiters Work for You
A call from a recruiter is more likely to be for their gain than yours. Still, that call could be the springboard for your next jump up the career ladder.