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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of unemployed has increased by 4.1 million over the last 12 months. The job market is tighter than ever and competition for jobs is fierce, especially in shrinking industry segments like automobiles, manufacturing and financial services. An emerging workforce trend is to recareer, a term quickly [...]

Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and Business training, and TechRepublic, a leading online community for IT professionals, today announced the availability of the 2009 IT Skills and Salary Report. This year’s salary survey yielded more respondents than any other in the industry, with a participant base of more than 14,000 IT professionals. Among [...]

Americans fear unemployment more than any other consequence of the economic downturn, outweighing stock market performance, healthcare costs and saving for retirement, according to a recent survey. A new study from financial services firm Edward Jones shows 38 percent of Americans rank unemployment as their biggest concern, topping the list for both men and women. [...]

When asked how they feel about their job if it were to come to life as a person, less than 10% of full-time US workers say they love it enough to marry it, and young, single workers are most inclined to look for another match, according to survey sponsored by Taleo Research and conducted by [...]

The slow economy isn’t slowing the need for engineers in the electricity industry. The California Independent System Operator Corporation (California ISO) is partnering with local schools in an effort to encourage students to pursue engineering careers. The California ISO is recognizing National Engineers Week by hosting its first Engineering Day at its Folsom campus on [...]

At the Health Industries Council meeting on March 11, in Irving, Harvey Brenner, Ph.D. and professor of public health and behavioral sciences at the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s School of Public Health, announced new findings that indicate that mortality is directly related to the economy.

As job losses mount in the challenging US economy, growth to online job search sites has grown 51% to 18.8 million visitors, making job search the fastest growing content site category in 2008, according to data released by comScore.

But Four in Ten Consumers Say Country Is Now on the Right Track Continuing a year-long decline, U.S. consumer sentiment hit new all-time lows in February on news of accelerating joblessness, according to the most recent results of the RBC CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index. As a result, the overall RBC CASH [...]

Chief Marketing Officers at top U.S. brands place the highest value on creative thinkers and leaders in their hiring practices, but 39% of the executives revealed they are somewhat to very unsatisfied with the availability of qualified employment candidates, according to new Epsilon research profiling the American CMO. Asked how satisfied they are with the [...]

Finding a job in the current economy is no easy feat, especially if your references are less than glowing. The Creative Group, a specialized staffing service providing creative, advertising, marketing and web professionals on a project and full-time basis, recently surveyed 250 U.S. advertising and marketing executives, asking them to describe the most unusual reference [...]