It’s been some time since I’ve written a post about the daily newspaper industry as what was once an interesting exercise has become somewhat joyless and macabre. It’s like continuing to cheer passionately for your football team when they’re up 56-0 in the first half and most of the other team has been taken off [...]
Gary Hayes has developed an incredible widget that demonstrates the phenomenal power and growth of social media. It’s not only fascinating to watch, but also a blunt depiction of why social media must be a vital component of anyone’s web strategy…
Mason Hipp has written an excellent blog post on an easy thing that every job seeker should do to improve their job search efforts – set up a customized job search dashboard on iGoogle. It is easy, free, and incredibly effective. The tools available for job seekers today are incredibly powerful, but the numbers can [...]
Latoya Egwuekwe has posted an excellent video of the nation’s rising unemployment between January ’07 and September ’09. The video shows the color coded unemployment rate for every county in the U.S. in that span, and the transformation from 4.6% unemployment in 2007 to the start of the recession in 2008 and the darkening abyss [...]
As he usually does, Scott Adams nails both sides of a complex issue while managing to bring hilarity to what is otherwise a pretty grim topic.
Continuing last Monday’s post about the October’s jobs report (in which new job postings on LinkUp rose by 4% from September), there is also positive news on an industry by industry basis. In October, 23 of 36 industries showed an increase from September in new job listings on LinkUp, while 21 showed an increase in [...]
Last Friday, the Department of Labor issued its monthly jobs report for October and reported that the U.S. economy lost another 190,000 jobs in October (a number that will certainly be revised up or down in future months). October’s losses represent the 22nd straight month of monthly job losses, and unemployment rose from 9.8% to [...]