Archive for 2012

Indeed.com Tops the Charts

Indeed.com is always on my list of favorite job sites. Indeed is also on the list of the top ten fasting growing web sites in January and the top jobs site with more visitors in January than any other site in the Job Search category….Read Full Post

Pink Slip? How to Handle a Layoff

Have you received a so-called pink slip or, more officially, a termination notice? Pink Slip is an interesting – and symbolic – term, and I tried to research where it came from. I had thought maybe layoff notifications in the days of paper were pi…

Fla. School Bus Dispatcher Suspended With Pay After Allegedly Aiding Bank Robbery

A Florida school-bus dispatcher has been suspended with pay after police say she played Bonnie to her husband’s Clyde in a bank robbery that took place late last month in central Florida.

Police say that Sharon Reynolds-Bell, who has worked for the…

40% Of Fast Food Workers Think Their Jobs Might Make The World Worse

In the book-turned-movie “Thank You for Smoking,” tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor meets every week with his buds, a firearms lobbyist and alcohol lobbyist, and later with lobbyists from the fast food, hazardous waste and oil drilling industries. They ca…

Would You Hire You?

Catherine Byers Breet, founder of Arbez, does a number of excellent presentations on an effective job search around the Minneapolis area. One of her presentations is titled: Would you hire you? Although I haven’t seen her presentation, the title …

Promotion Secrets: How The Corner Office Was Won [Infographic]

The nation’s job picture may be improving, but it still has a long way to go before workers can expect to get a rise in pay. Stagnant wages have been a component of the U.S. labor market for more than a decade — long before 2008′s economic crisis.

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Speed Puts Community Colleges Front And Center

By Justin Pope

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Co. is a high-tech job shop, crafting super-precise parts for machines used in everything from robotics to aerospace to oil exploration. Macomb Community College lies a few m…

Labor Slaves, Prisoners Helping Build World Cup Venues

By Tales Azzoni

SAO PAULO (AP) — It wasn’t a tough choice for convicted bank robber Chiquinho: spend the day in a cell or make money out in the sun helping Brazil build a 2014 World Cup stadium.

Trying For A Second Chance After A First-Interview Flop

By Vickie Elmer

You blew it. The interview was beyond bad and yet you know you’d be a blazingly bright hire for the job.

So what do you do if you really messed up on the first interview yet you feel you’re well-qualified for the job? Keystone A…

Obama Seeks 28 Percent Corporate Tax Rate

By Jim Kuhnhenn

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent and wants an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says, as the White House …