Being Late is Fine with Employers, Thanks to Smart Technology The majority of global employers don’t mind when employees show up late for work, according to new research by Mozy®, the world’s most trusted provider of data protection and availability for consumers and businesses. Mobile technology, including smartphone apps and cloud services, now means that employers are surprisingly supportive of ... Read More »
If you want to know where the job market is headed, Benchmark’s Michael Eisenberg recommends that you pay attention to the trend surrounding micro businesses or sub-SMEs, “where we have a lot of talented people that have gotten laid off or have left their jobs in corporate America that are starting businesses on their own.” “This is creating incredible opportunities ... Read More »
Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced the Freelancer.com Fast 50 for the second quarter of 2012. The Freelancer.com Fast 50 pulls data from over 4 million users and over 2.3 million projects to highlight the 50 fastest moving online job categories, creating the most comprehensive insight into online job trends. The data for the Q2 Fast 50 report ... Read More »
User Experience is one of the fastest growing and most exciting segments in the interactive industry. This guide provides essential information on the different career opportunities within UX, national benchmarks for UX salaries, the hottest metro areas for UX jobs, and tools of the trade for UX professionals. Brought to you by onwardsearch.com. Read More »
As soon as top employees exit the doors of their high profile company, you can bet that other Silicon Valley tech companies are already clamoring to snatch up these valued industry professionals. Here is how they are taking the talent from one another, who’s winning and who’s losing. Read More »
In an earlier post I wrote about ways to find hidden jobs and as I reflected on that earlier today, I thought it might be useful if I made a weekly report to help you guys out. I mean, if you want me to. Let me know if you find this data useful and how it could be more useful. ... Read More »
The job market for new business school graduates remains difficult, but there are clear signs that employers are becoming increasingly confident about the economy - and more eager to hire - according to newly released data from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Read More »
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a total of $1.8 million in funding to six organizations in California, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania as part of the Women in Apprenticeship and Non-traditional Occupations Grants program. The awards will support partnerships between the grantees and currently existing Registered Apprenticeship programs to ensure that women have training opportunities and career support to succeed in non-traditional occupations in growing sectors of the economy. Read More »
Online advertised vacancies rose 222,700 to 4,150,000 in April. Job demand has surged 870,000 for an increase of 27% over the past six months. Over the past six months, labor demand has increased by 870,000, and this increase has been widely shared across the States and occupational categories. Read More »
Some might say if you have a job in this economy, even if you hate it, you should be happy about it and count your blessings. That’s easy for us to say – we’re not the ones who hate going to work, right? Read More »
