Scene: Somewhere in the Riverlands, south of The Twins. Tywin Lannister: “When the battle commences, you and your wildlings will be in the vanguard.” Tyrion Lannister: “The vanguard? Me and the tribesman, on the front lines?” After a brief recounting of the savagery of the Stone Crows and the Moon Brothers the night prior, Tyrion [...]
Despite mixed to horrible marks for the quality of the bill as a solid solution to the nation’s long-term revenue and expense woes (one former budget official from the Clinton administration speaking earlier today on Bloomberg Radio gave it a D-), last night’s passage of HR 8 – The Tax Relief Extension Act – has [...]
As has been the case seemingly forever, trying to attain some visibility into the nation’s employment situation these days is like trying to take a picture with the new iPhone 5. While that exercise can be marred by a funny purple haze, the view of the labor market at the moment is marred by a thick [...]
LinkUp announced last week that its job search engine has reached 1 million job openings indexed exclusively from company websites throughout the U.S. This is a major milestone in support of LinkUp’s mission to deliver to job seekers the largest index of high-quality job listings available on the web. By updating the index daily and [...]
Last Wednesday, LinkUp issued its 60-day jobs forecast based on data from its national job search engine. Our forecast for August and September is based on the number of new and total job listings indexed from over 22,000 corporate websites throughout the U.S. in June and July. The increase and decrease in these job openings [...]
Press Release LINKUP WINS ABOUT.COM’S 2011 READERS’ CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST JOB SEARCH ENGINE NEW YORK, March 15, 2011 – LinkUp today announced that it has been selected as the About.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Award for best job search engine. Now in its fourth year, the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards honor the best products, features [...]
The polls have closed on About.com’s Reader’s Choice Awards, and the winners will not be announced until next week, but in advance of final certification and the official announcement, LinkUp received the most votes as the best job search engine, beating Google, Indeed, and Simplyhired. As a result of the voting, I couldn’t help but [...]
The February jobs report comes out tomorrow, and hopes are high that the numbers will finally show that the U.S. economy is truly and firmly in recovery mode. As Ben Bernanke said recently in his semiannual testimony on Capitol Hill, the recovery that seems to be occurring in virtually every economic and financial metric except [...]
After a disappointing jobs report in December, pressure is mounting for a positive report this Friday when the Department of Labor releases their jobs numbers for January. All indicators are pointing to a positive report for the month. ADP estimates that the U.S. gained 187,000 jobs, Intuit is reporting that small businesses added 70,000 jobs, [...]
I’m not sure that anyone’s noticed, but it’s been a few months since we’ve published our monthly jobs report, and my blogging in general has dropped precipitously of late. One of my goals for 2011 is to begin blogging again and I’m starting with a much delayed jobs report from LinkUp for November and December [...]