“I think I’ll lose my job tomorrow,” I told my husband. Earlier that day, the day after Labor Day, my third manager in a year had set a mandatory … Read more

“I think I’ll lose my job tomorrow,” I told my husband. Earlier that day, the day after Labor Day, my third manager in a year had set a mandatory … Read more
In the next decade, robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers, a workforce that represents one of the last remaining careers to offer a … Read more
When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May employment report Friday, it marked a recovery milestone. Six years and five months after the … Read more
Other than referrals from your top-performing employees, it’s hard to find a corporate recruiting source with a higher quality of hire (i.e. on-the-job … Read more
Here’s one I don’t see often: a job-seeking toolkit put together for customers of a company. Read more
U.S. Cellular is helping employees losing jobs in the sale of some segments of its business to Sprint by setting up a transition portal. A recruitment … Read more
You may remember my post just last November about a company called The Nerdery. The Minnesota company was trying to “drive 100 programmers to their … Read more
More evidence of the use of the crowd and the cloud in the employment field: A small group of California and Nevada job seekers is turning to an online … Read more
All of us have heard about messy terminations, and some of us have witnessed them firsthand. The most memorable are the employee who is escorted from the … Read more
Monster Worldwide laid off an undisclosed number of workers Tuesday, and closed its operations in Brazil and Mexico. One report put the number at 800, … Read more
Calling all tech industry recruiters. Get ready to pounce. Yahoo, as we presume you’ve heard, is about to dump thousands of its employees. Exactly … Read more
If you subscribe to the notion that any growth in jobs is good, then today’s report from ADP will be encouraging. The payroll processor said 91,000 … Read more
I received some sad news yesterday. A friend committed suicide. He was despondent because he had been unemployed for over two years. He likely had other … Read more
Layoff news today about Cisco and and better news from The Conference Board. The latter says June wasn’t the complete disaster it might seem from the … Read more
Payroll processor ADP reported this morning that the U.S. added 201,000 private sector jobs in March, an estimate that bolsters expectations that … Read more
Time for a guessing game. We’re playing “Who am I?” Here are the hints: I get nearly free health care and pay only a pittance … Read more
Two labor-related reports this week offer no evidence that the recession Wall Street believes is over really is, at least so far as workers are concerned. … Read more
A new study from Watson Wyatt has pretty good news for employees who miss their old salaries and 401(k) matches, and shows that employers are just as … Read more
Economists expect that tomorrow’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will show 175,000 jobs were lost in September, the smallest … Read more
New surveys this week are stoking optimism that the worst of the worst recession in (insert your choice of years here) really may be behind us. The … Read more