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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Original Technorati articles tagged “employment”

• in Small Business
  Social Media: Workplace Cool or Ultimate Firing Tool?
  Texting, Tweeting and Facebook posting aren't frowned upon until you've punched the clock and decided to invoke Amendment 5.
  by advertzones / on Jan 22, 2013
• in Small Business
  5 Companies Considered The Force Majeure Of IT Job Market
  While many infotech companies are putting Americans to work, these five do so with alarming frequency, and without layoffs.
  by advertzones / on Jan 20, 2013
• in Small Business
  Merry Christmas - Now Start Hiring Again
  Everyone's wishing us all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year yet many of us just wish we were hired.
  by advertzones / on Dec 25, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “employment”

 

• Economic And Employment Composites Indicate Further Weakness

  
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  streettalklive.com / By Lance Roberts / Monday, May 20, 2013 “The economy is amazing right now – employment is recovering, innovation is going and housing is reviving.  What’s not to love?”   This was a statement I heard in the media to justify the recent rise in the stock market.  In this past  ...
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• Opinion: The Governments proposed housing accord legislation gives it too much centralised power and could have far-reaching consequences

  
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  Tweet Image sourced from Shutterstock.com " class="imagecache imagecache-teaser_180x110 imagecache-default imagecache-teaser_180x110_default" width="180" height="110" /> By David Hargreaves In ...
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• Top Source of Hire in 2012 [CHART]

  
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  Sometimes the most obvious answer is right in front of our nose.  In a recent survey it displayed the top sources of hire for the past year, and the number one source = internal people.  Current employees fill nearly 42 percent of all hires.  This is a great recruiting tactic as it shows employee growth [...]
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• How I Cut My Spending in Half to Take a Job I Loved

  
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  In 2009, I was a very senior executive celebrating my fourth anniversary at a brokerage firm. I was working about 70 hours a week, managing 80 people, and traveling to the company’s other offices (two of which were cross-country) 3-4 days a week, twice a month. Even when I wasn’t at the office or on the road, my ...
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• UP Basic Education Parishad Recruitment 2013 For 10800 Numbers of Assistant Teachers in The Primary Education Level

  
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  Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Parishad (Council) is one of the vital nodal agencies for the state of Uttar Pradesh and is operating for recruitment of teachers in the Primary Education Level for upliftment of primary education in the state. As the Primary Education is the most fundamental education for a person to ...
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• Top 10 Companies Hiring This Week

  
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  By Mariya Pylayev A job search can get quite frustrating these days, with so many people competing for too few openings. To ease the burden, AOL Jobs tracked down the 10 top companies that are hiring this week. ...
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• The U.S. Economy May Be Adding Jobs, But They Are Not Equal To The Jobs That Were Lost

  
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  Thanks to, among other things, a falling labor force participation rate, U.S. unemployment is now down to 7.5% . It’s important to note though that the job gains of the last few years have not been equivalent to the jobs that were lost. Fed Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin asserted in a recent speech  that the jobs ...
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• An Accident Checklist from a Personal Injury Lawyer in Pittsburgh

  
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  As every personal injury lawyer in Pittsburgh knows, accidents happen, and even good drivers who are paying attention can be in an automobile collision. This article aims to provide the basic checklist to enable you to come out of the situation with a favorable outcome. The checklist given here will provide you with a ...
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• What It Takes To Be A Family Practice Physician

  
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  The first medical doctors were generalists who treated everyone in town – adults, children and seniors. They diagnosed and treated chicken pox in the kids, performed surgery on Dad, delivered Mom’s babies and eased the pain of the elderly who were dying. In fact, for thousands of years, these generalists provided ...
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• NLRB case on investigations proves puzzling to lawyers

  
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  Employee handbook restrictions on confidentiality are not the only kind of confidentiality that law firms and other employees have to worry about. When an employer conducts an internal investigation, it usually wants everybody to keep it quiet. Last year, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that a company policy ...
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• What’s Holding Back Hiring?

  
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  Stop worrying about the “jobless recovery.” Start worrying about the recovery-less recovery.
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• Lining Up For a Job Lift

  
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  The men began arriving last Wednesday, first a trickle, then dozens. By Friday there were hundreds of them, along with a few women. They set up their tents and mattresses on the sidewalk in Long Island City, Queens, unpacked their Coronas and cards – and settled in to wait as long as five days and nights for a ...
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• Job Opportunity, The ACAD, Calgary: Sessional Faculty-School of Communication Design

  
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  Job Opportunity, The Alberta College of Art + Design: Sessional Faculty – School of Communication Design The Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) is committed to an academic studio-based education for students in fine art, design, craft and digital media. The result is a rigorous studio program, which produces ...
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• The Importance Of References When Employing A Builder.

  
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  When you are employing a builder to do some work on your house, it is important to ask them for references. It is not something that many people tend to do, but it has a lot of advantages. Not only will you know that there are previous customers that are pleased with their work but it will also give you the chance to ...
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• Sending female intern’s horror-film clip to local law firms gets ex-partner suspended for 3 years

  
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  A former partner of a well-known Indiana law firm has been suspended from practice for three years for persuading his paralegal to impersonate the managing partner and send an email attaching a horror-film clip in which a future female attorney seemingly was onscreen in a state of undress. Arthur J.…
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• Canadian on EI shut out amid foreign worker influx

  
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  A jobless Canadian IT professional who is collecting employment insurance is upset because he now suspects several recent jobs he applied for went to temporary foreign workers.
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• Economic Indicators – Manufacturing Weakens an Overall Neutral Picture

  
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  Economic Indicators Roundup (May 20, 2013) Economic indicators are everywhere, so this is kind of like a dashboard that I like to follow.  For each indicator, I will try to give you a brief description, the latest reading and what I understand to be its implications.  For simplicity, I will assign each a rating of ...
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• Unemployment rate steady at 3.5pc for second month

  
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  Hong Kong’s unemployment rate in April was 3.5 per cent – same as the level in March, government figures released on Monday showed. Increases in the unemployment rate in April were mainly observed in retail, manufacturing, and accommodation and food services sectors, the Census and Statistics Department said, ...
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• Minimal raises for TX prison guards

  
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  The union representing Texas prison guards, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), issued a press release today complaining that pay hikes for corrections officers are half those given to "other statewide law enforcement" (I presume thats DPS). Taking account "an increase in ...
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• Unrest Erupts in Bangladeshs Troubled Garment Hub

  
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  Police reacted after workers blocked a key highway in the Ashulia industrial area, home to hundreds of factories which make clothing for Western retailers. Police reacted after workers blocked a key highway in the Ashulia industrial area, home to hundreds of factories which ...
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