Employment

Employment: it's what everyone's talking about these days. Since the early 2000s, job hunting and recruitment have largely taken place online, through sites such as Craigslist and Monster. These sites became so successful that many recruiters and job seekers stopped perusing newspaper classifieds altogether — prompting newspapers and other paper-based publications to post their ads online.

On this page, you'll find a wide variety of posts: individuals discussing their job searches, employment-related news, tips for freelancers, recruiting blogs, discussions of labor and employment law, even profiles of great lesser-known job opportunities. You might find a few spam link sites, too. But overall, there's a vast amount of information online to help your quest for gainful and fulfilling employment. So go on, surf your way to a better job.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Employment”

• The jobs numbers | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  This is the big news item of the day, I suppose: an actual decrease in the unemployment figures , and a pretty substantial revision downward in the numbers of the past two months. Dean Baker writes: On the whole, this report is much better news than what we have seen since the decline accelerated last ...
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• Only the BNP Stands Up for the Rights of the Indigenous People of Britain

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 607
  Now that the anti-white Equality Act has been passed by all parties in Parliament, the British National Party alone is the only party which stands unequivocally and unashamedly for the rights of the indigenous British people. Speaking at the monthly meeting of Liverpool BNP, party foreign affairs spokesman Arthur ...
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• Employment Situation News Release

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  The latest Employment Situation news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://bls.gov : The unemployment rate edged down to 10.0 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-11,000). In the prior 3 months, payroll job losses had averaged 135,000 a month. In November, ...
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• Lots Of Hope Going Around Today

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 527
  “Hope and change, unemployment improves to 10 percent “ -Examiner.com “Job numbers give hope” -WHEC-TV NBC News10 (Rochester, NY) “Unexpected drop in jobless rate sparks optimism” -Associated Press From Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols this morning: President Barack Obama said the U.S. economy still has ...
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• US Double-Dip Recession: Has The Second Leg Begun?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to their lowest level in over a year last week. Likely a precursor to their jobs report Friday, the Labor Department proudly announced that “just” 457,000 Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits. That’s the fifth straight week of decline, the ...
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• Credit Suisse predicts good 2010 for global equities

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Global equity markets could be posting a 12pc return by mid 2010, driven by better-than-expected growth and a near 30pc increase in earnings, Credit Suisse analysts expect.
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• Hot Job: Executive Assistant I…

  
  Careersthatdontsuck.com — Authority: 143
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• The Great Depression and the Current Recession–Robert Higgs–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 429
    The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 1 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 2 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 3 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 4 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current ...
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• VICE ARE GIVING JOBS AWAY! (WELL ONE JOB)

  
  Viceland.com — Authority: 584
  VICE are looking to hire a recent graduate to fill a newly created role in the sales department of our London office. Here follows some professional stuff which, unless you want a job, is really dull. So if you don’t want to apply for the job, just stare at the film poster above and try and imagine the plot. If you ...
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• Krugman: New employment numbers will only feed complacency

  
  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Authority: 157
  Its a good point , if you believe that the drop in the unemployment rate does not signify a change in the prognosis that over the next several years unemployment will remain unacceptably high. By witnessing a "drop," however small, policy makers may now think the problem is solving itself, when Krugman, among ...
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• Whose University? California Students Fight for Access to Education

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 649
        Marcy Rein, a retired member of Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU) Local 29, gives us an in-depth report on the struggle by students at the University of California to oppose draconian cuts that endanger jobs and quality education. From a block away on Telegraph Avenue, you could sense the ...
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• Answers About Unemployment Benefits: Part 1

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 152
  Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project, answers reader questions about unemployment benefits.
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• Woman Injured While Cashing Paycheck on Paid Break Must Arise Out Of Employment

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  “Recreational Activity Injury” or “In the Course of Employment Injury” How Would You Decide:  Oregon Worker’s “Saunter” Across Employer’s Parking Lot to Make Bank Deposit Was Not a “Recreational” Activity and Occurred “In the Course of” the Employment, But Case Remanded to Determine if ...
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• NFP

  
  The Center of the Universe — Authority: 134
  [ Skip to the end ] Karim writes: Strong number; details mostly firm: NFP -11k with net revisions +159k UE rate down from 10.196% to 9.992% Diffusion index up from 32.5 to 40.6 Hours index up 0.6% U6 unemployment down from 17.5% to 17.2% Sectors: Construction -56k to -27k Retail -44k to -15k Temp ...
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• U.S. Unemployment Rate Drops

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 158
  The big news from the world of finance today is that the U.S. unemployment rate dropped in November. In the wake of a jobs summit at the White House , the latest numbers for the employment picture are in. And in November, it looks as though the economy only shed 11,000 jobs. This is opposed to the 125,000 that many ...
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• Job Centre: tools or techniques, but no jobs

  
  Professional CV Writing - CV4.biz — Authority: 125
  Job Centre: tools or techniques, but no jobs Since the start of the recession, and climbing unemployment figures, the focus of the media has been on two key economic issues: How quickly are the unemployed numbers rising? When will the economic recession end? We know from past data and recessions, that the ...
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• Unemployment: Record number Unemployed over 26 Weeks, Diffusion Index

  
  Calculated Risk — Authority: 751
  Two more graphs ... Unemployed over 26 Weeks Back in September, David Leonhardt wrote on the job churn rate in the NY Times: Try thinking of it this way: All of the unemployed people in the country are gathered in a huge gymnasium that’s been turned into a job search center. The fact that this recession is ...
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• Restructuring at Avid Technology

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 670
  IT , Jobs , Layoffs Wade Roush wrote: Avid Technology (NASDAQ: AVID ), the Tewksbury, MA-based maker of media editing software, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week that it will pay out $7 million to $9 million in termination benefits as part of a workforce ...
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• Depressed or Suicidal? Prayers and Blessings.

  
  Written on the Wind — Authority: 143
  In order to get a blessing you need to be a blessing.  The first thing to consider is:  have you helped someone else today?  If you look at the unhappiest people amongst the rich and famous you will often find that it is the self indulgent who are the most unhappy.  We are not made to contemplate our own ...
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• Stephen Harper Probably Saved Or Created A Million Jobs

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 133
  Canada adds 79,000 jobs in November The Canadian economy gained a surprising 79,000 jobs in November, with the unemployment rate easing 0.1 percentage points to 8.5%, Statistics Canada reported Friday. “Almost all the employment growth in November was attributable to the service sector (up 73,000), especially ...
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