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- Go Where the Money Is
- Nine of the best cities to find work, both in America and abroad, and how to get jobs there. Success, it is said, is a matter of being in the right place at the right time. While this is hardly the right time for much of anything, there are...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- The Hottest Jobs Right Now
- Hard as it may be to believe, there are still some bright spots in the economy — sectors that aren't undergoing as much wrenching change as other parts of the economy. Here are five of the most in-demand jobs. ...
- Articles 2009-04-13
- How to Prepare for a Pay Cut
- If you've managed to hang on to your job, there's a good chance you've been forced to accept a pay cut or reduction in work hours. Here's how to minimize the impact of these painful moves. ...
- Articles 2009-06-05
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- Recession Makes Wal-Mart Critics More Neighborly
- Better health care plans, more environmentally friendly stores and other social initiatives have made Wal-Mart more popular â€" or less odious -- to some critics but now the recession is making the retailer more attractive to what had been a new class of antagonists. Community activists have...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- White House: Jobless data show slow growth, not recession
- WASHINGTON AFP — The White House said Friday that a spike in US jobless claims highlighted "slow growth" in the world's richest economy but rejected any talk that the economy was in a recession. "The jobs numbers are consistent with slow rates of economic growth that we've had, but...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- Jobs Outlook: Why GDP Gains Haven't Helped
- Third quarter Gross Domestic Product showed that the nation's economy grew by an annualized 3.5% rate. Not bad, especially considering that we've seen contraction in five of the last six quarters. Most economists believe that the most severe economic decline since the Great Depression likely ended in August or September....
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Agencies Have Cut 24,100 Jobs Since Recession Began
- Since the recession began, 24,100 ad agency jobs have been lost. In all ad-related jobs, including media, losses have topped 65,100, according to Ad Age. The numbers are not unexpected, but they do indicate that agencies are severely under-reporting the number of people they let go. BNET's...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- The Tech Solution To The Recession
- Just as 2008 was defined by Barack Obama's electoral victory, 2009 will be defined by another competition the incoming administration sparked: the race to grab the hundreds of billions of dollars the president-elect has pledged to spend revamping America's infrastructure. Unlike the beleaguered automakers and banks, high-tech companies aren't begging...
- News items 2009-08-07
- U.S. Jobs Hemorrhage In '08
- Major indexes slid Friday morning after the U.S. Labor Department reported that the national unemployment rate had jumped to a higher than expected 7.2% during the month of December and an additional 524,000 nonfarm jobs had been shed, leaving more than 10 million Americans out of work. Economists had expected...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Underreported Unemployment: Why Those Jobs May Not Come Back
- Today's weekly report of new unemployment claims showed what appears to be a big improvement -- a sharp drop to 522,000. But the seasonal adjustment factors are distorting our perspective, and the numbers are not as good as they look. We should probably be adjusting our long-term perspective, too, say...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Brown admits recession could last until 2011
- The recession could last as long as two years without urgent action to boost the world economy, Gordon Brown acknowledged yesterday as Britain braced itself for a surge of new year redundancies. The Prime Minister announced plans to create 100,000 jobs in the public sector and promised fresh moves to...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Recession is Only the Beginning | BTalk Australia
- (18min 54) Professor Steve Keen says the Aussie economy has a long way to fall yet. The current situation is the work of neoclassical economists who didn’t understand the importance of controlling debt, which is now over $2 trillion. He points to the RBA, whose decision not to lower interest...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- The Worst Jobs in 2009 | BTalk Australia
- (8min 39) Latest indicators paint a gloomy picture on the economy and most analysts now agree that Australia will face a deepening recession. So which industry sectors will suffer the most? In today's BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Richard Jeremiah, an industry analyst at IBISWorld, who...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Defence offers the route out of recession
- RELATED FEATURESBudget vs. rebuildEducation, enhancement, employabilityBiking into businessThe mindset for protectionThe value in valuesGiving industry a voiceRiding out the downturnDefence offers the route out of recessionTuesday, September 01, 2009 Contrary to current thinking in Westminster, now is the time to look at investing not less but more in the UK's...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Target Reorganizes Workforce, Attitude to Cope with Recession
- Target is learning to live with the recession, as cheap take precedence over chic in its business equation. Yesterday, Target announced it would lay off about nine percent of its headquarters workforce, but it certainly wasn’t cheap in the severance packages it offered. Still, 1,000 jobs are...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Five Jobs for Lousy Times and No Talent Necessary
- CNNMoney recently came out with its list of the "50 Best Jobs in America." The list assemblers ranked jobs based on personal satisfaction, job security, future growth, benefit to society, stress -- and presumably pay, since, after all, it's CNNMoney, not CNNSelf-gratification. The...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Boeing cuts 4,500 jobs
- By Bill Rigby NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) became the latest U.S. industrial giant to cut jobs on Friday, shedding 4,500 workers from its commercial plane operations, or about 7 percent of the unit total, as it looks to trim costs in the face of a global recession....
- News items 2009-08-07
- Obama: Too Much Debt Could Fuel Double-dip Recession
- By Caren BohanBEIJING (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, Obama told...
- News items 2009-11-18
- How to Manage in a Recession
- During a downturn, the usual rules of the workplace change dramatically. Here's how to keep your team motivated and productive. Set the Tone Goal: Lower the anxiety level in the office by being candid about...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- Cut Jobs Now, Face a 'Demographic Double Whammy' Later
- The Find: European companies that drastically cut their workforces in the face of the recession may face a "demographic double whammy" and struggle to find the talent they need when the recession ends, a recent report concludes The Source: A report entitled Creating People Advantage: How to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
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