Transitional Jobs Pegged as Critical for Promoting Self-Sufficiency
That hole on the resume is daunting. In hindsight, it's tempting to wish that you filled some of that time with an enriching activity-- a job or a class or an internship, but what do you do when you really feel like you need to start from scratch? Building up work experience can be challenging, especially when the competition for most jobs is so stiff. Recognizing the difficulty of...
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Corporate Voices for Working Families Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
Aren't most families working families? What exactly are non-working families? It seems like most families have people in them who are workers or were workers until they lost their jobs. Nonetheless, people still must fight hard to get all the support they need as workers. The organization Corporate Voices for Working Families just celebrated its tenth anniversary. The organization aims...
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How to Write a Great Resume
Learning to write an effective resume is a life skill most people cannot afford to ignore. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median tenure for most professionals is about 4 years. For employees between the ages of 25 and 34, the median tenure is only 2.9 years. Since most of us will change jobs a number of times in our career, we need to become proficient at selling...
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Candidate or Wooden Duck? First Interviews and Candidate Decoys
When buying a house, most people don't pick the first one they visit. Even if that house has everything they could ever wish for, they still feel like they haven't seen everything that's "out there." The real estate agent that took those people to their dream house first just made a costly mistake. Now those buyers have to tour all the houses that match none of their criteria so that they can...
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Department of Energy Excels in R&D Magazine's Annual Competition
RD Magazine has been around since 1959, reaching out to research scientists, engineers, and technical staff members at laboratories around the world. RD Magazine aims to broaden readers' knowledge of the research and development industry and improve the quality of their work. Reading about the type of work honored by the magazine may be a way for recruiters to learn about what...
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National Grants Fund More Green Jobs
Just because you want a job that helps minimize environmental problems doesn't mean that you know how to do it. Much of the momentum to support green jobs is directed toward training people in the skills they need for some of these tasks. The Department of Labor has announced grants to six organizations that train workers how to perform in the green industry sector. Most of these...
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Losing It: Office Lessons from Hockey Riots
Perhaps the lunacy-inducing full hockey-puck moon dangling over the city like a tempting, provocative but out-of-reach piñata was to blame for the Vancouver Stanley Cup 2011 riot. Or perhaps it was some rampant, childish belief that a Canucks jersey, like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak, could conceal what the posturing arsonist posers nonetheless wanted to reveal. Fortunately for...
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Fair Labor Association Strengthens its Standards for Recruitment
Who will set the standard for what is considered fair and just? Many organizations attempt to define workers' rights, and these definitions, guidelines, and codes need to undergo occasional scrutiny to keep apace with developments in labor policy. The Fair Labor Association (FLA) began in 1999 to bring together companies, colleges and universities, and civil society organizations to improve...
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Military Base Closing? Dept. of Labor Wants to Help
Many communities depend on military bases to support the local economy. Aside from the military personnel whose hard earned dollars inevitably make their way into local business coffers, these bases hire thousands of non-military support staff. So when a base is closed or relocates, these communities can be very hard hit. Even in the best of economic times, the loss of such a significant...
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Nevada Ekes Out Some New Jobs to Topple Staggering Unemployment
Although plenty of hotels have grown accustomed to emptiness and most construction has stalled to a halt in Nevada, the state of Nevada still saw some improvement in employment last year. Out of all states, Nevada-- the state with the highest unemployment-- saw the largest jobless rate decrease. From May 2010 to May 2011, Nevada recorded the largest jobless rate decrease (?2.8 percentage...
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Trust and Delivery: Becoming a Trusted Recruitment Partner
Great clients for recruitment agencies don't just come along, ready made. It's like any great relationship...while there may be some instant chemistry and sparks right off the bat, it takes time and commitment to make it work. Working around the socks left on the bathroom floor (or the hiring managers that are eminently reasonable, yet incredibly picky) can result in either a disastrous...
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Florida Tops Nation's Job Growth in May
Last month, fifteen states reported major changes in their employment records. The four states reporting over-the-month statistically significant job gains were Florida (+28,000), Arizona and Louisiana (+10,100 each), and Wyoming (+2,200). Why are workers in this state experiencing this influx of jobs? Florida, the state with the highest job growth last month, is happy to announce that...
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