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The Gulf Oil Spill and Job Loss: By The Numbers
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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 been affected. From fishermen, to lifeguards, to those in the of
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The Best Metros for Job Growth
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Where you live affects every aspect of your life. The cost of your rent or mortgage. Whether you drive everywhere, take a bus or walk. How much you pay for groceries. The availability of jobs. You could say that location really is everything.Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment findings for metropolitan areas for April. Many metros have worse unemployment figures than they
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Learning From Rejection: The Questions to Ask When You Don’t Get The Job
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When you got cut from your high school chess team, you asked your mom if you could transfer schools.When you thought that you and that awesome guy were more than just friends — and thought wrong, you spent the next three days in your pajamas.When you went on an awesome interview, but the job went to another candidate, you vowed to learn the pots and pans and spend the rest of your life as a
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Social media guidelines in your job search and workplace
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Last week I was in a café when I overheard a conversation next to me. At a nearby table, a supervisor from a child care agency was interviewing a young job seeker. The interviewer asked the young college student a series of questions about her experience, education goals and schedule. From what I gathered, she had already gone through a phone interview and this was the first in-person meeting bet
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Where are all the Jobs? A how-to uncover the Hidden Job Market
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Meeting ON Thursday AT 10amUnemployment is running rampant in California and the Nation. Where are all the jobs goings?Believe it or not, people are still getting hired. We need to come together and educate each other on what are proper avenues ...
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Handling job search desperation
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When you really want to — need to — work, is there anything worse than being unemployed? How about being long-term unemployed?The number of long-term unemployed people (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) grew to 6.1 million in December 2009, according to the most recent BLS data. That means that four-in-ten unemployed workers were jobless for 27 weeks or longer. That’s means o
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January job numbers redux
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The BLS released January’s jobs report this morning, and while it wasn’t complete cause for celebration, it was encouraging. The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged, down -20,000 compared to -779,000 in January 2009.Here are the highlights:The number of unemployed persons decreased to 14.8 millionEmployme
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Would you take a pay cut for job security?
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While catching up on the news yesterday, I read this interesting article on CNN.com. The author, Jessica Dickler, interviews Stephanie Jenkins, who had a background in hotel sales and marketing but now works for a senior living Alzheimer’s community. When she saw jobs in health care were growing while hospitality opportunities were dwindling, she saw the potential for a future career.So Jen
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