EEOC Discusses Leave As Reasonable Accommodation
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was a milestone in the history of the rights of disabled Americans. Passed in 1990, the law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations when necessary so that people with disabilities can perform the essential functions of their jobs, unless doing so would constitute an undue hardship to the employer. Soon after the law was passed,...
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Job Distribution in the Private and Public Sector
What do teachers and correctional officers have in common? It's not just a day filled with disciplinary actions. It's also who writes their pay checks and who pays for their visits to the doctor. These are two of the professions most dominated by government workers, according to recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In local government, 5 of the 6 largest occupations were...
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More Job Creation from the Dept. of Transportation
Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Transportation, has been investing in projects that will meet the combined goals of improving the country's transportation infrastructure, lower the country's carbon footprint and move toward a transportation system that has less of a negative impact on the environment, and spur the economy, specifically by creating jobs and as much as possible...
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Your Bubble Village
"You can take the villager out of the village, but you can't take the village out of the villager"—a temporarily accurate observation about Chinese villagers You work in a bubble—one that contains you, your clients, colleagues, candidates and applicants. Paradoxically, the more "professional" your bubble is, the more its atmosphere and workings resemble the vanishing...
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mResource and JSTN Merge to Multiply Media
One recruiter made a 2011 New Year's resolution to spend less time in front of screens. This may become a more and more difficult challenge. Soon, it may be work-related videos that flutter across the recruiter's retinas at night. Responding to a culture that loves the video as a medium, some companies are looking to connect more easily with job candidates through this technology. This is...
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Retail Benefits from Swipe Fee Reform
For all the talk about the importance of the alleged mom and pop businesses, it often seems like little is done to really help all of these independent entrepreneurs. This just changed. Retailers around the country are celebrating a new law in effect. As of July 21, retailers will be paying much less to banks. This new regulation of swipe fees was authored by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)...
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Three Million Jobs a Month
In February, March, and April of this year, nine million jobs opened up. That's three million jobs a month consistently for those consecutive months. The most evasive jobs were government jobs. Few people seem to be leaving these coveted jobs, and few new positions are being created. In government the job openings rate was 1.4 percent in April. Despite devastating cuts in school...
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Should you start a recruiting business?
If you're a corporate recruiter, you've probably talked to friends in the agency world that have made big money in the business. If you're an agency recruiter, you've probably wondered why you give 50, 80, or 92.676% of your revenue to your employer. Starting your own recruiting business is tempting. The open seas call to you: $60,000 a month checks! Short hours! Vacations once a year in the...
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Internet Security – Not Just About Naughty Pictures
Internet security has been in the news recently. And now that Anthony Wiener has admitted that he, and not some mischievous hacker, was the one that sent that naughty picture to a college coed, maybe we can turn our focus to the estimated $10 trillion in global online transactions that may not be as secure as we would all like. Well, maybe not all of us. The hackers out there like things...
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Is There Prosperity in the Wind?
How many times must a windmill spin before you can see in the dark? As the United States mobilizes around energy-efficient light bulbs, there is still the issue of lighting them. Wind power is often touted as a powerful alternative form of energy. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) is committed to having more and more homes powered by wind. According to EWEA's website, the...
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Unsung Heroes of the US Economy: Cooperatives
Competition, competion, competition. It may be time for a little cooperation. At least, the United Nations seems to think so. The United Nations General Assembly has officially named the year 2012 as the "International Year of Cooperatives." For too long, the council concurs, governments around the world have not done enough to support cooperatives which create economic...
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How to be a Lazy Recruiter
Most recruiters are workaholics that beat themselves up if they don't answer their Blackberry at 10pm. They talk to candidates instead of their kids and take down job requirements in their dreams. Do you ever get tired of it? How are some recruiters able to dial it back a few notches and still make more placements than you? You might need to try getting a little lazier. The trick is, how...
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