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Wall Street Added 1,000 Finance Jobs in December
Financial services jobs in New York NY are on the upswing according to a recent report by the New York States Department f Labor.
Wall Street lost more than 30,000 the start of the recession in December 2007, but firms are now looking for experienced executives with active client lists and a book of business, recruiters [...]
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Healthcare Jobs For Hire in Philadelphia
Philadelphia employers need to fill more than 6,000 job openings in the next six months, according to a poll reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal. The bulk of the openings are healthcare jobs in Philadelphia and there are a number of finance jobs in Philadelphia with companies like Wells Fargo, PNC Bank, and TD Banknorth, [...]
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South Beats North in January Job Growth: Gallup Poll
Southern states added more jobs in January than the rest of the country, according to the Job Creation Index published by research company Gallup.
The Gallup research doesn’t attribute job creation to any particular industry. However, two examples of jobs that are hiring through the TheLadders would be technology jobs in Dallas, TX and finance jobs [...]
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LinkedIn Wants Users to Connect More
If LinkedIn wants to avoid being swamped by social-networking giant Facebook, it must persuade users to spend more time on the site.
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Uptick in Executive Jobs Seen for 2010
Recruiters are bullish on the outlook for executive-level job hunters in 2010. And about 20% of employers say they'll add staff lower down the totem pole, too.
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Many Jobless Don't Qualify for Cobra
The government is expanding a safety net to help the unemployed buy health insurance, but millions don't have access to the aid because of how Cobra was designed.
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College Aid Ready for the Taking
After a year marked by layoffs, battered college funds and shrinking private-loan availability, more families are struggling to cover the cost of a higher education. But there is help out there -- and more of it in some instances.
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With Scant Jobs, Grads Make Their Own
Anecdotal evidence suggests more recent college and grad school graduates are launching their own companies, a move that makes sense given the 16% unemployment rate among 20-to-24 year-olds.
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Business Roundtable CEOs Cautious on Jobs in 2010
One in five CEOs said they expect to hire over the next six months,according to a survey, released Dec. 8, of members of the Business Roundtable, an organization of chief executives from blue chip corporations like AT&T, Cigna, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson.
But 31 percent said they expect to decrease staff levels even further between [...]
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Two Jobs and Still Underemployed
A growing number of people are underemployed, working part time or in jobs that don't employ their skills. (Dec. 1, 2009)
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Hard Hats' Ladder to Prosperity Removed
Men who lack post-high school education once found work in construction, but now they have fewer prospects in a job market favoring brains. (Oct. 1, 2009)
2010 Hiring Report Shows Small Improvement Over Q4: Manpower Survey
Nearly three quarters of U.S. businesses (73 percent) said they intend to keep staffing levels at current levels through the first quarter of 2010, according to the staffing firm, Manpower.
Twelve percent of companies said they plan to hire in the period and an equal number said they plan to reduce staff, according to the survey.
The [...]
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Job Cuts Loom as Stimulus Fades
Highway-construction companies, having completed many stimulus projects, are starting to see business dry up, an ominous sign for unemployment.
Downturn Hits Haven for Disabled Workers
The struggles of one nonprofit organization show how an economic pall can be particularly tough on the disabled, a group that suffers from chronically low employment.
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Overtime Creeps Back Before Jobs
Overtime is returning at many manufacturers, boosting workers' battered wages and helping companies increase output during a period of uncertain growth.
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Pentagon Plans to Move Hundreds of Jobs to Dayton, Ohio
Scientists and engineers are expected to see a hiring increase at the Wright-Patterson Air Force base, where the Pentagon is transferring many technology jobs in Dayton, OH, from military complexes nationwide, according to the Dayton Daily News.
Wright-Patterson will absorb research programs including aerospace medicine, sensors and human performance from other bases, under decisions made [...]
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American Express CEO Chenault Challenges Congress on Jobs
If the employment situation doesn’t improve soon, voters are going to hold Congress and the Obama administration responsible, said Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express at a summit of CEOs hosted Monday by the Wall Street Journal.
This is an opportunity for business to really seek out a clarion call to say we’re going to be [...]
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NABE Economists Predict “Jobless Recovery” Until Summer 2010
The nation’s leading business economists are growing more optimistic about the prospects of an economic recovery this quarter and next.
Members of the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) said they expect (survey) the economy to grow at an annual rate of 3 percent for the fourth quarter and to grow 3.2 percent in 2010. NABE [...]
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Hired Guns Too Often Shoot Blanks
Does it pay to hire the best candidate money can buy? Probably not, said Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
More often than not the hired gun is a dud, he said. “Outside successors seldom succeed.” Nevertheless, businesses love hiring outsiders (especially for chief executive officer and other C-level [...]
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