From the Harper’s Index in the current issue: Average number of minutes unemployed Americans are spending looking for a job each day: 18 While extending unemployment benefits is no doubt justified for millions of Americans, this shocking statistic (if true) raises serious questions about the manner in which states are administering those benefits and the [...]
Finally there’s another voice from within the job board industry to add to the tirade against Hound.com. Congratulations to Chris Russell for calling out Hound for being one of, if not THE, worst, most fraudulent job boards in the industry. This company is not only the spam king of job boards, it’s a gigantic scam [...]
Marty Brack, in a recent ERE post, provides an excellent case study in rethinking traditional methods of recruitment advertising. In the test, he analyzed the cost per quality resume using both Careerbuilder and LinkedIn. Not surprisingly, given how horrendously Careerbuilder and Monster (the 2 most bloated, polluted, antiquated, pay-to-post behemoths) typically perform for employers, LinkedIn [...]
Charles Lane wrote a good piece in The Washington Post recommending 3 ideas to help facilitate job creation: 1) End federal protectionism and price supports for sugar 2) Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act 3) Reduce the federal minimum wage I’m not sure I completely agree with his argument for reducing the minimum wage, but I’d certainly [...]
Because I’ve written in the past about how bastardized the math is behind unemployment rate (seriously, read my March ’09 blog post if you’re even remotely interested in the U.S. unemployment rate) I had to laugh at the comedic, animated rendition of how the Department of Labor calculates (or fails to accurately calculate) the nation’s [...]
Continuing last Friday’s post about November’s stunningly positive jobs report (in which new job postings on LinkUp rose by 9% from October and 35 states reported an increase in the total number of jobs listed on corporate websites), there is also positive news on an industry by industry basis. In November, 22 of 36 industries [...]
As further evidence of an improving economy, LinkUp reported today that new job listings in its job search engine rose 9% in November, while the total number of job listings in its search engine rose 4%. The Department of Labor reported this morning that in November, the U.S. economy only lost 11,000 jobs, a stunning [...]
There may have been others, but this is the first I’ve seen from a major magazine group announcing an app that brings a print magazine to the iPhone. It’s about time. My favorite and most used app at the moment is the New York Times, and I’d love to have more of my preferred media [...]