I was in the middle of looking at new career sites from the American Cancer Society and Sonos when I heard about yet another: VMware. Its launch was … Read more
Time to Fill Sets Record In April at 29 Days
Across all industries and all jobs, it took employers an average of 29.3 working days to fill a vacancy in April. That trumps by almost a full day the … Read more
Some Ideas LinkedIn and Microsoft Have Tossed Around
In a letter to the LinkedIn workforce about the acquisition, LinkedIn CEO mentioned a few of the ways Microsoft and LinkedIn could “unlock some … Read more
Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion
Breaking news coming out of the West Coast this morning as Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring LinkedIn, the professional networking site with … Read more
‘Ugly’ Jobs Report Shows Smallest Growth in 5 Years
Employment numbers from the U.S. Department of Labor this morning are a shocker. Far from the 155,000 new jobs economists expected were created in May, the … Read more
Private Sector Adds 173K New Jobs in May
Hiring improved slightly in May, with private sector employers adding 173,000 new jobs, a gain of 7,000 jobs over April’s revised numbers. … Read more
4.2 Million More Workers Must Be Paid OT
The Department of Labor unveiled its much anticipated new overtime rule Tuesday night, declaring that 4.2 million more workers will soon have to be paid … Read more
A Pennsylvania Town Is Creatively Selling Itself to Recruits In Ways Cities 10 Times the Size Are Not
Add a new name to that list of locales — I’m talking about Minneapolis, Nashville, Austin, Detroit, even the Yukon, to name just a sampling … Read more
A Little-known Fortune 100 Company Is Trying to Become a ‘Talent Factory’
A not-well-known company that’s nonetheless one of the U.S.’s largest, operating in 160 countries with about $47 billion in revenue, is trying … Read more
The New Woo
One of the many new sites touting anonymity — or in some cases just more transparency and control — for job seekers is releasing new updates … Read more