From US News & World Report … A flurry of conditionals has couched their “flickers of hope” and “green shoots,” but government officials may finally have their chance to speak with unobscured optimism. The Labor Department reported Friday that employers cut 345,000 jobs from their payrolls last month, a bad sign in nearly any economy [...]
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June 4, 2009
Google recruiter: Company kept ‘do not touch’ in hiring list
Via MercuryNews.com … A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant. That revelation could be significant in light of this week’s disclosure that the U.S. Justice Department [...]
May 6, 2009
ADP Says U.S. Companies Reduced Payrolls by 491,000
Via Bloomberg.com … Companies in the U.S. cut an estimated 491,000 workers from payrolls in April, indicating the worst of the recession’s job losses may have passed, a private report showed today. The drop in the ADP Employer Services gauge was smaller than economists forecast and the fewest since October. March’s reading was revised to [...]
March 29, 2009
IDC Eyes SaaS Opportunities
From InternetNews.com … The Software as a Service business model is changing the way software is purchased and deployed by enterprise customers, experts told an audience of technology professionals here at the IDC Software as a Service Summit earlier this week. Subscription software has been available on the Internet for years. What’s new is the [...]
March 23, 2009
Where The Jobs Are, Spring 2009
Via Forbes.com … Thanks to last year’s strong harvest of apples and the jobs that followed in juicing, packaging and shipping, Yakima, Wash., has the strongest employment outlook in the country for the second quarter of 2009, according to a quarterly survey by employment services firm Manpower. “This is an agricultural base, a huge apple-growing [...]
February 4, 2009
Job Search Online Fastest Growing Category
Via MediaPost Blogs … comScore, Inc., in a study of Americans’ usage of the job search category, the fastest growing content site category in 2008, found that the category has seen the number of visitors grow 51% to 18.8 million visitors, as millions of Americans find themselves seeking new job opportunities. The final months of [...]
December 16, 2008
How About a Pleasant Economic Surprise?
From Workforce.com … By now, the only thing that should be surprising about economic bad news is that the experts are surprised by it. Yesterday, the figure of 573,000 new unemployment claims blew past the 520,000estimate from analysis firm Briefing.com. The payroll job loss tally from last week was a bigger shocker still. U.S. employers [...]
December 11, 2008
Is the Jobs Panic Justified?
Via Business Week … It was bad enough when Iceland got into financial trouble and practically sank into the frigid North Atlantic. It was worse when your next-door neighbor lost his home to foreclosure. But now things are really getting scary: Your own job may be at risk. Unease turned to incipient panic on Dec. [...]
November 7, 2008
Jobless rate bolts to 14-year high of 6.5 percent
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 [...]
October 7, 2008
Many workers do not respect their bosses
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 [...]
