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
  Unemployment 22
  Better Not Have Gone Broke When You Were Laid Off
  by Mozart99 / on Feb 24, 2012
• in Social Media
  Unemployment numbers optimistic while many Americans not "gainfully" employed
  The 8.5% unemployment rate has been looked at by most as an improvement. Yet, many Americans are "under" employed.
  by theweeklystash / on Jan 22, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Art Students Should Fair Better Despite Higher Unemployment
  Art students face higher unemployment, but the stinging reality is this shows higher poverty in the understanding of higher education.
  by anthonylock / on Jan 5, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “unemployment”

 

• Two things that seem odd, Americans seem almost content with high unemployment and a more austere lifestyle, and wall street certainly is not having a problem with it.

  
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  Without the desire for change on main street or wall street, things will stay as they are. I do not doubt that the internet has provided cheap entertainment for many and has started to serve as an alternative to more expensive pursuits. If main street was truely concerned would the ows movement be growing instead of ...
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• More Americans to travel for Memorial Day, cheaper gasoline gives them some spare change

  
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  More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And theyll have a bit more money to spend thanks to lower gas prices. Memorial Day kicks off the summer travel season, and since pump prices never reached $4 or $5 a gallon, as feared, economists says travelers are likely to dine out ...
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• Spanish regulator suspends trading of Bankia shares before meeting on state aid requirements

  
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  Spains market regulator suspended trading of shares in bailed-out Bankia on Friday ahead of a key board meeting at which the lender is expected to decide how much more rescue money it needs from the government. A market commission statement said trading was being halted because "a concurrence of issues ...
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• Country heading towards another Emergency, says BJP

  
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  Mumbai, May 25 (IANS) The BJP Friday anticipated the imposition of another Emergency in the country, saying the situation was similar to the pre-emergency era of 1974. “The situation of 1974 has been recreated,” senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde said at the party’s national executive meeting ...
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• Keep hearing dog whistles [Shorter Question Everything]

  
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  Dog-whistle politics From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a type of political campaigning or speechmaking which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted ...
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• Mahalo joins the Layoff Express. Bastard, Laying people off is Unamerican!

  
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  Image via Wikipedia It seems that all we here of is more and more companies laying people off, my question is why cant the people at the top just take pay cuts - maybe the CEOs should make 50,000 or so a year until the crisis are over, then they can beef up their income to astronomical figures. Im not necessarily ...
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• Is Full Employment The Goal?

  
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  We hear all the political rhetoric about jobs….jobs….jobs…..we listen to the prez tell us he wants to put Americans back to work……we hear the GOP tell us all about the evils of the Dems approach and that they will put all Americans to work if we just trust them with our vote…..everyone has heard it and has ...
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• Cabinet member suggests unemployment of 2.6million is “good news”

  
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  Energy Secretary Ed Davey is under fire after implying that unemployment of 2.6million is “good news”. To make matters worse, Davey made the statement in the North East – one of the areas hit hardest by the recession. According to the Newcastle Journal, Davey said : “What has been good news is how the ...
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• “A better life for all”: The case for a youth wage subsidy

  
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  By Matthew de la Hey The South African unemployment rate is currently 25.2%. This means that 4.5-million people who had sought employment within the four weeks preceding the reference week were unable to find a job. This figure rises to 38% if those who have given up hope and have stopped looking — the ...
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• American Workers Displacement

  
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  The Bureau of Labor Statistics April jobs report is the latest evidence that, White House spin aside, the U.S. employment picture across all demographic spectrums is grim and getting grimmer. Last month, the economy produced a meager 115,000 jobs. And while some may believe the Obama administrations fantasy that ...
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• Unemployment Claims – Marching Downward Nicely

  
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  Initial Weekly Unemployment Claims (4-Week Moving Average) thru Week Ending May 19, 2012 – Easy Trends In this article, I’ll take do an “Easy Trends” analysis of the initial weekly unemployment claims data.  ”Easy Trends” is a place where I’ll analyze the recent trend for an indicator and discuss ...
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• When considering your job look…

  
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  When considering your job look for options, you might choose to handle third-party recruiters as well as staffing firms. There are four main solutions to work with recruiters and staffing businesses: contract, momentary, temporary-to-hire and immediate hire. Each alternative has its positives and negatives, and many ...
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• Shock 15% rise in suicides since the recession as unemployment and bankruptcy take their toll

  
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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Shock 15% rise in suicides since the recession as unemployment and bankruptcy take their toll Coroners courts concluded that 3,471 people had taken their own lives last year, a rise of 15 per cent compared to 2007. However, some areas have seen numbers more than double. ...
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• Dutch unemployment up to 6.2 percent in April

  
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  According to the latest figures released by Statistics Netherlands, unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation has grown by 24 thousand to 489 thousand in April 2012. Figures published by the Institute for Implementation of Employees’ Insurances (UWV) show that the number of unemployment (WW) benefits has dropped ...
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• They Can’t Be Racist

  
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  It looks like Obama and his handlers have a bit of a problem on their hands and I doubt that they or Obama’s cultists really know how to deal with it. The way certain things are shaping up across the country it looks like unemployment might personally affect them after the 2012 Presidential Elections coming in ...
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• We’d recover faster with less showrooming

  
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  A couple days ago, I wandered down to the local Barnes and Noble to get out of the house, see if I could prove I still exist, and to add to the pile of research for the next story I’m writing. Let’s see. Marketing. S for Safko. The Social Media Bible, 3rd Edition . Chapter 21, Interpersonal Tools. Yep, I’m in ...
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• Nearly 1 million young Canadians aren’t working or in school

  
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  But were doing better than Europe, U.S.
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• News Summary: US jobless aid applications dip to 370,000, sign of modest job growth

  
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  LITTLE CHANGE: The number of people seeking unemployment benefits was nearly flat last week, signaling modest job growth. Weekly applications for benefits dipped by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 370,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. SLOW BUT STEADY GROWTH: Applications have leveled off this ...
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• For the First Time, Number of Unemployed Who Attended College Outnumber Those Who Didn’t

  
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  Parents may have a tougher time winning the argument with their children about the importance of attending college if their offspring hear the latest news from the U.S. Department of Labor . As of April, the number of unemployed people (age 25 and older) who went to college was greater than the total of jobless ...
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• Euro zone may struggle with its own Lost Decade

  
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  Additional Reporting by Andy Bruce and polling by Rahul Karunakar and Sumanta Dey. As Europe’s crisis drags on, the prospect of a Japanese-style lost decade of economic malaise is becoming increasingly real, according to a new poll. Half of the bond strategists and economists surveyed by Reuters are now expecting ...
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