Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: September 5, 2008
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its monthly summary of job data for August 2008.
Among the most notable items in the report:
Unemployment rose from 5.7% in July to 6.1% in August.
The report indicates that over the last 12 months, the unemployment rate has risen by 1.4%, with over 2 million people losing their jobs.
Manufacturing jobs continued [...]
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: August 26, 2008
Today, CareerBuilder.com and Robert Half International released the fourth annual Employment Dynamics and Growth Expectations (EDGE) Report. This survey features responses from more than 500 hiring managers and 500 workers on questions related to employment and compensation trends.
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: August 21, 2008
Many employers are facing a number of challenges: a shaky economy, rising fuel costs and high health- care costs for their employees. Even if a company is stable enough to weather the economic storm, it may be implementing budget cuts to keep costs down.
One of the ways employers accomplish that is by initiating a hiring [...]
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: August 19, 2008
Compressed workweeks, especially four-day workweeks, have been around for some time now. But it looks like we have an emerging trend of compressed workweeks being adopted by schools and educational facilities.
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: August 6, 2008
CareerBuilder.com released a new survey today, and the results may surprise you. One-third of female workers in our survey said that they were paid less than their mail counterparts who had the same experience and qualifications.
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: July 22, 2008
The New York Times ran an interesting story today that was based on recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
For most of the last half century, since the 1960s, the ranks of women in the workplace continued to increase. (The number of men in the workplace consistently shrank.)
But this decade, the number of women in the workplace also [...]
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: July 21, 2008
For many of us, working part time was a rite of passage when we first entered the workforce. Students made up a significant portion of the part time work force. Those workers seemed to be most visible to the public when they shopped at retail stores, or visited service-oriented institutions like banks, hair salons or [...]
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: July 16, 2008
The slowdown in the economy and in the job market has obviously had a direct impact on many people. Some of them have lost their jobs, and some job seekers are finding it far more challenging to land a gig.
But the economic slowdown has also had an effect on workers who are still an active [...]
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: July 8, 2008
Introducing CareerBuilder.com’s new podcast!
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: July 3, 2008
With July 4th as a paid holiday for many workers, we examine the most common paid holidays.
