Job growth in the temp sector accounted for 12.3% of November’s overall 146,000 jobs increase, according to numbers released this morning by the … Read more
Economy Added More Jobs Than Expected and Unemployment Rate Drops
Confounding predictions of mediocre new hiring and a rise in unemployment, the U.S. Department of Labor this morning said 148,000 new jobs were added to … Read more
A New Way to Search LinkedIn
As JobSync works on a new tool for searching applicant tracking systems, an ERE reader from Glattbrugg, Switzerland, emailed me today to tell me about a … Read more
Maybe Today Is the Day to Post That Job
Wednesday’s looking like an awfully good day to post a job. At least that’s what you glean from job-distributor eQuest, whose data indicates a … Read more
Describing Yourself on Social Media? Here Are Some Buzzwords to Avoid
For a guy like me, the six most terrifying words in the English language are, “Could I get your bio, please?” I hate describing myself and what … Read more
What’s New: Bright; ReqCloud; Cream.hr; JobSync; Adicio
Social media, employment branding, an employee-assessment company, a new tool you need to know about for using applicant tracking systems, and a job site … Read more
Consumer Confidence Slows Ahead of Friday’s Labor Report
Improvements in consumer’s confidence about the economy slowed last month, as the leading indices were up, but only slightly from October. The … Read more
Career, Job Satisfaction Rises Among Nurses, but Many Plan to Cut Back or Find New Job
Whether caused by improvements in the economy or improvements in their work-life isn’t clear, but nurses in 2012 are more willing than just a year ago to … Read more
Fed Says Even With ‘Modest Hiring,’ Worker Shortages Occurring
The Federal Reserve says hiring activity in the nation generally has improved in the last several weeks particularly in some of the high tech and … Read more
What President Obama’s Reelection Can Teach About the Importance of Talent Communities
Just weeks after I wrote a piece for ERE.net about talent communities, something happened on the Internet that excited much of the tech blogs and was … Read more