After three months of holding steady, the U.S. unemployment rate took a surprise jump last month, rising to 9.8 percent. It had been at 9.6 percent. At the … Read more
.Jobs Decision Misses Deadline
Already two weeks beyond the deadline, a decision on the future of the .jobs domain seems even further off now, as the board of the Internet’s … Read more
Largest Employment Increase in Three Years
With two new economic reports today showing hiring growing faster than expected and worker productivity up, the evidence supporting a U.S. recovery is … Read more
Early Reports Support Economic Recovery Hopes
With apologies to Meredith Willson: It’s beginning to look a lot like recovery. Today’s reports all show. Take a look at the confidence, … Read more
Holiday Temp Staffing and the Seismic Shift in the Workplace
If you’re out shopping today, there’s a good chance that the person helping you purchase your items or finding that deeply discounted item for … Read more
Some Economic News to Add to Your Thanksgiving List
On the eve of America’s annual day of Thanksgiving, there’s at least some better economic news to toast than what we’ve seen in a while. … Read more
Blekko and DuckDuckGo Announce Search Partnership
You may have seen our recent post on the Blekko search engine. Well, today they announced a partnership with semantic search engine DuckDuckGo in an effort … Read more
Dogs Rule. Snakes Earn. Fish Go Into HR
I always suspected there was something more than coincidence that Catbert, the “evil” head of HR where Dilbert works, is a feline. Having … Read more
No Limit on Whose Jobs Go on .Jobs, Says SHRM
The Society for Human Resource Management has essentially repudiated one of the fundamental reasons it and its partner, Employ Media, sought to create a … Read more
Staffing Firm Takes Slow Approach To Social Media So It Can Do It Right
When Staff Management decided it needed a social media presence, its first instinct was to be cautious. “We knew we had to be there, but there was a … Read more