Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: August 22, 2008
NBC has a new reality show with a focus on work. The show is called “America’s Toughest Jobs,” and it debuts on Monday, August 25th. We will chat about the show after the first episode airs, but I thought I’d share this preview with you.
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Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: August 1, 2008
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly summary of job data for July 2008.
Among the most notable items in the report:
Unemployment rose from 5.5% in June to 5.7% in July.
There were 51,000 fewer jobs in July. Total job loss for 2008 so far is 463,000. That is an average of 66,000 jobs lost per [...]
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 14, 2008
I think it was the movie “Office Space” that featured a worker who blamed the foul moods of others on a “case of the Mondays”. Maybe those workers would have been less grumpy if they just added a little ‘flair‘ to their uniforms?
Hopefully our Monday working news roundup will help cure your Monday blues. Or [...]
Posted by: Patrick Erwin on: July 8, 2008
Introducing CareerBuilder.com’s new podcast!
Posted by: Christian on: June 17, 2008
When your job is bad, it’s bad. So bad that you can’t wait until you get home to start searching for jobs in the safety of your own home. Now, thanks to CareerBuilder.com, you can start looking for jobs in the safety of your cell phone – er, iPhone.
CareerBuilder.com is launching a new iPhone application [...]
Posted by: Christian on: April 16, 2008
Back in 1950, blue-collar industrial and agricultural jobs were prevalent, with a smattering of secretarial work thrown in for women who worked outside of the home. Unfortunately, faster than you could say “job security,” such jobs as secretaries, steel manufacturers and newspaper printers diminished rapidly – and are still dwindling today.
Thanks to the advent of [...]
Posted by: Christian on: May 22, 2007
