“I think I’ll lose my job tomorrow,” I told my husband. Earlier that day, the day after Labor Day, my third manager in a year had set a mandatory … Read more
Intel’s Latest Acquisition Will Speed-Up the Mass Unemployment of Truckers, Drivers
In the next decade, robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers, a workforce that represents one of the last remaining careers to offer a … Read more
A Graphical Look at What’s Happened to America’s Jobs
When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May employment report Friday, it marked a recovery milestone. Six years and five months after the … Read more
Why Boomerang Rehire Programs Rank #2 in Producing High-quality Hires
Other than referrals from your top-performing employees, it’s hard to find a corporate recruiting source with a higher quality of hire (i.e. on-the-job … Read more
Bank’s Jobs Toolkit Is For Its Customers
Here’s one I don’t see often: a job-seeking toolkit put together for customers of a company. Read more
A Quick Look at U.S. Cellular’s Portal for Departing Employees
U.S. Cellular is helping employees losing jobs in the sale of some segments of its business to Sprint by setting up a transition portal. A recruitment … Read more
Nerdery Needing a Few Fewer Nerds
You may remember my post just last November about a company called The Nerdery. The Minnesota company was trying to “drive 100 programmers to their … Read more
California/Nevada Job-seeker Group Raising Money From the Crowd, Online
More evidence of the use of the crowd and the cloud in the employment field: A small group of California and Nevada job seekers is turning to an online … Read more
Terminations: A True Test of Your Company Culture
All of us have heard about messy terminations, and some of us have witnessed them firsthand. The most memorable are the employee who is escorted from the … Read more
Layoffs At Monster Worldwide
Monster Worldwide laid off an undisclosed number of workers Tuesday, and closed its operations in Brazil and Mexico. One report put the number at 800, … Read more
Happy Cities, Yahoo, and Background Checks in the Roundup
Calling all tech industry recruiters. Get ready to pounce. Yahoo, as we presume you’ve heard, is about to dump thousands of its employees. Exactly … Read more
ADP Says Private Sector Jobs Continued Slow Growth in August
If you subscribe to the notion that any growth in jobs is good, then today’s report from ADP will be encouraging. The payroll processor said 91,000 … Read more
These Are Real Lives We’re Dealing With
I received some sad news yesterday. A friend committed suicide. He was despondent because he had been unemployed for over two years. He likely had other … Read more
June Not a Complete Loss, But July Gets Cisco Layoff Rumors
Layoff news today about Cisco and and better news from The Conference Board. The latter says June wasn’t the complete disaster it might seem from the … Read more
ADP Says Economy Job Growth Gaining Momentum
Payroll processor ADP reported this morning that the U.S. added 201,000 private sector jobs in March, an estimate that bolsters expectations that … Read more
Here Are 100 Of the Best Places to Work
Time for a guessing game. We’re playing “Who am I?” Here are the hints: I get nearly free health care and pay only a pittance … Read more
Reports Say: Fewer Openings, Longer Job Searches
Two labor-related reports this week offer no evidence that the recession Wall Street believes is over really is, at least so far as workers are concerned. … Read more
Companies Ready to Unfreeze Salaries; Retention Worries Increase
A new study from Watson Wyatt has pretty good news for employees who miss their old salaries and 401(k) matches, and shows that employers are just as … Read more
Numbers Point to a Long, Slow Recovery
Economists expect that tomorrow’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will show 175,000 jobs were lost in September, the smallest … Read more
Three Surveys Show Economic Confidence Is On The Rise
New surveys this week are stoking optimism that the worst of the worst recession in (insert your choice of years here) really may be behind us. The … Read more