November 27, 2008
Via Yahoo Tech / Reuters …
Janel Landon, who runs a small PR consultancy in Chicago, has long been aware of the potential of online networks: now in her mid-50s and facing a global recession, she’s decided to sign up.
“Given the state of the economy, I recently decided to jump on board,” Landon told Reuters. “Professional networking is a ‘must do’ during unstable economic times.”
The economic crisis slamming firms across the globe has sparked a spike in usage of professional networks – Xing and LinkedIn are key sites — as people hedge against losing work and laid-off employees seek jobs.
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November 11, 2008
Via The HR Capitalist …
You’re in HR - a partner to whomever you serve… Guess what? That means you’re supposed to tell people when they’re messing up. For a lot of us, that’s easy when it’s employees and even the managers we serve in other departments. It gets trickier when we have to tell our boss that there’s something rotten in Denmark related to … well, them.
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November 7, 2008
Via AP …
The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were cut, the government said Friday. It was stark proof the economy is almost certainly in a recession.
The new snapshot, released by the Labor Department, shows the crucial jobs market deteriorating at an alarmingly rapid pace.
The jobless rate zoomed to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 percent in September, matching the rate in March 1994. Employers have cut jobs each month this year.
Unemployment has now surpassed the high seen after the last recession in 2001. The jobless rate peaked at 6.3 percent in June 2003.
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October 23, 2008
Via ZDnet …
During this period of downturn, the unadulterated waste caused by failed IT will drive layoffs as organizations cancel poorly performing projects. Although these marginal projects might have escaped the axe during better times, today they’re perfect budget-cut targets.
If you’re an IT worker, click the link below to read how to avoid becoming a layoff statistic.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=1096
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October 14, 2008
Via ERE.net …
What’s a marketing manager?
Ask five people, and you’ll get five definitions. Look for resumes, and you’ll get hundreds of people doing vastly different things.
Mark Bielecki is trying to clean it all up with a new site, Joblish. (And you thought startups had used up every possible fanciful variation of the word “job”!)
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October 12, 2008
Via The New York Times …
“It’s frustrating to hear ‘just get out there and meet people’ without any indication of how to do it,” Noël Ponthieux said by e-mail message. He is an American who moved to London several years ago, which meant he had few contacts to start his search for a position as a senior copywriter. “I don’t think many job seekers fail to realize that they need to meet people. Searching online is a way of attempting to do just that. But certainly we’d all like to learn more innovative and effective ways of getting a (real) foot in the door.”
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October 7, 2008
Via Reuters …
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Almost half of U.S. workers do not respect their boss and only half believe they are competent, according to an online survey released on Friday.
The study by Randstad USA, a unit of the world’s number two staffing company Randstad NV, found that the growing financial crisis has seen companies focusing more on their bottom line at the expense of relations with employees.
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October 3, 2008
Via InfoWorld …
After the consolidation wave, financial IT jobs could be cut. And cuts in discretionary projects across the board threaten many tech workers.
Fearful tech workers tiptoeing along the shaky alleys of Wall Street — and fretting about losing their jobs — should take a deep breath. Of the more than 100,000 job losses expected as a direct result of the financial crisis, only a tiny slice will likely be from the tech ranks, figures Sean O’Dowd, an analyst at market researcher Financial Insights.
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September 26, 2008
Applicant Tracking Software Provider, Integrates Features to Help Customers’ Use of Leading Career Site
CORAL SPRINGS, FL (September 25, 2008) – Hirebridge LLC, a leader in application tracking solutions software, has announced the integration of numerous functions that help its customers leverage their use of the nation’s largest online job site, Careerbuilder.
Customers now can post job openings directly from their Hirebridge platform to the CareerBuilder site using CareerBuilder’s DirectPost application submission service. They also can search CareerBuilder’s massive, premium Candidate Resume Database without first leaving the Hirebridge portal. Together, these new features streamline the candidate acquisition process. Hirebridge and Careerbuilder are also pleased to offer an integrated application for candidates to speed the application process and ensure candidate source tracking.
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