unemployment

Unemployment is a scary prospect for most of us, and a daily reality for many. 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, and even profiles of great lesser-known job opportunities. You might find a few spam link sites, too.

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. These days, 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 new job.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “unemployment”

• in Business
  When Will We See More Jobs?
  Why does the stock market go up when the highest unemployment in a generation is announced?
  by DrDouglasRice / on Nov 9, 2009
• in Business
  Dow Hits 52-Week High, Stocks on the Rise
  Stocks continue upward climb after this weekend's G20 resolution to continue stimulus.
  by bryanmckay / on Nov 9, 2009
• in Business
  Detroit Looks Toward Green Future
  With the Green Jobs Initiative on the horizon, Detroit looks toward the future despite recent economic setbacks.
  by jfylo / on Nov 9, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “unemployment”

• hmm, interesting. via the NYTimes

  
  Documented, Scrapbook'd. — Authority: 149
  hmm, interesting. via the NYTimes
  1 hour ago

• New Labor Trend: Day Labor Work & Competing Against Immigrants

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 437
  The New Career Path: Day Labor Work, Competing Against Immigrants by Michael Shedlock In what is described as the modern day equivalent of selling apples during the great depression, U.S. citizens are joining immigrants in store parking lots competing for a few hours of day labor at places like Home Depot. ...
  3 hours ago

• Latvia: From Great Recession To Depression

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 123
  Few countries have been as badly hit by the global downturn as Latvia. According to a flash estimate released by the statistical office, the Latvian economy plunged by 18.4% y-o-y during the third quarter, which although below the consensus contraction of 19-20%, was nonetheless a horrific rate of decline. Indeed, ...
  3 hours ago

• Battle Of The Labor Surveys (Why jobless rate will decline by a percentage point or more in 2010)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Despite the fact that headline "payroll" job losses are significantly smaller than earlier this year, the unemployment rate spiked to 10.2% in October. This is the highest since the aftermath of the brutal 1981-1982 recession, when the jobless rate peaked at 10.8%. Many are arguing that the unemployment rate is the ...
  3 hours ago

• FREE: Up-to-Date Unemployment Maps on Your Website

  
  PolicyMap — Authority: 103
  // The most recent unemployment data for September is now available on PolicyMap and in our first free widget. Just embed the code below to bring interactive unemployment maps to your website. Your visitors can zoom in, pan around and click on any area of the map to see the underlying unemployment statistics for [...]
  4 hours ago

• Jacksonville courthouse project rife with illegal worker documents

  
  The US Report — Authority: 128
  Commentary by Kay B. Day Lone gull at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (by Kay B. Day) If you think about it, there’s rich irony in more than a quarter of workers at the county courthouse allegedly filing false identification documents. The county courthouse in Jacksonville—the city that is, according to local ...
  5 hours ago

• PSA: Carl Fillichio on “The Best Gig You Can Have”

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Part of Understanding Government’s new Public Service Announcement series featuring federal employees and profiles of what they do By Norman Kelley You would expect a certain amount of spin from an interview with a Labor Department public affairs official about his work. However, Carl Fillichio truly likes what ...
  5 hours ago

• We’re getting National Health Care, and we’re going to get it good and hard

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Mencken I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s not much of a debate anymore when the Republican lawmakers are arguing for socialism-lite and the Democrats are arguing for maximum strength ...
  7 hours ago

• The 10.2% Solution

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 135
  No!  I am not talking about the cocaine injection used by the great Sherlock Holmes! It is the latest figures released on the unemployment in the US….but if we figure in those who have come off the rolls or have just gave up on the prospect of having a job, then the figure would be closer to 20% or more. Let me ...
  7 hours ago

• Rejected by attached form letter

  
  Bent Corner — Authority: 133
  About a month ago I applied for a job advertised in the local newspaper. It was for a job I didn’t really want, for a company I didn’t really want to work for, but I felt that I had a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  8 hours ago

• Further strange unemployment analysis from the Conservatives

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 538
  Several weeks ago we reported on a strange labour market analysis recently published by the Conservatives. Yesterday’s media suggests that they are at it again. First, they say that we have the highest levels of youth unemployment in Europe . This is accurate, but that is because we are a big country (our actual ...
  9 hours ago

• Obama’s Failed Stimulus In Pictures: 10.2% Unemployment

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 549
  By Conn Carroll When President Barack Obama was pitching his $787 billion economic stimulus package, the White House produced a report claiming their plan would keep unemployment under a peak of 8%. Reality has not been kind to President Obama’s promises. On November 6, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
  9 hours ago

• 6 Reasons Why The Price Of Gold Is Going Up

  
  MoneyEnergy — Authority: 559
  It wasn’t surprising at $1000/oz, but even at $1100/oz this week, the naysayers are still in full force.  What’s to deny about the trend in gold prices?  You don’t have to be a gold bug to see what’s happening. Here are the six main factors causing the price of gold to continue to rise.  In some way or ...
  9 hours ago

• Should Someone Receiving Government Aid Give to Charity?

  
  My Life ROI, Getting the Best Return On Life — Authority: 600
  I was having a philosophical argument with myself (completely sane, right?) about the moral righteousness of someone giving to charity while receiving government aid. This came about after reading a letter to a columnist in the New York Times Magazine. The letter goes on to state: I helped prepare a tax return for ...
  9 hours ago

• Criminals: The Jobless Are Watching You [Trend Watch]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  More people are unemployed and sat around covered in Pringles shards watching old VHS tapes they forgot they had. The plus side? That means the recession-afflicted are now fighting crime! The AP...
  9 hours ago

• Counting the Jobs Produced by the Stimulus

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 695
  Gary Burtless argues that the job creation numbers the administration issued underestimate the true size of the impact: Counting the Jobs Produced by the Stimulus, by Gary Burtless, Brookings : When the stimulus package was enacted last winter, the Administration said its goal was to create or save 3½ million jobs ...
  11 hours ago

• Bankruptcy Filings Carry U.S. Jobs Away (infographic)

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  On the verge of the recession business bankruptcy rates and national unemployment levels were steady. But in late 2007, these numbers quickly began to inflate. Businesses across the country filed bankruptcy and in the process, carried away millions of American jobs.
  12 hours ago

• “The equivalent of selling apples during the Great Depression”

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  Stacy Summary :   Despite all the Depression like numbers across all data relating to the Average Joe, it’s been very difficult to find any evidence in the news for Depression-like existence for the bottom 99%.  I guess we’re now starting to see some of that make it into the news . . . The unemployed in ...
  12 hours ago

• “The equivalent of selling apples during the Great Depression”

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  Stacy Summary :   Despite all the Depression like numbers across all data relating to the Average Joe, it’s been very difficult to find any evidence in the news for Depression-like existence for the bottom 99%.  I guess we’re now starting to see some of that make it into the news . . . The unemployed in ...
  12 hours ago

• WHEN WILL WE SEE MORE JOBS?

  
  Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 158
  Why does the stock market go up when the highest unemployment in a generation is announced?
  12 hours ago

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