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The 25 Most Popular Online Jobsites In The World!
July 26, 2004 by jim stroud -
So, how is the job market REALLY doing these days?
by jim stroudBy industry, the leading sources of hiring turn out to be restaurants, temporary hiring agencies and building services. These three categories, which make up only 9.7 percent of total nonfarm payrolls, accounted for 25 percent of the cumulative growth in overall hiring from March to June. Hiring has also accelerated at clothing stores, courier services, hotels, grocery stores, trucking businesses, hospitals, social work agencies, business support companies and providers of personal and laundry services. This group, which makes up 12 percent of the nonfarm work force, accounted for 19 percent of the total growth in business payrolls over the past four months.
That’s not to say there hasn’t been any improvement at the upper end of the labor market, with the construction industry leading the way. At the same time, there has been increased hiring in several of the higher-end professions: there is more demand for lawyers, architects, engineers, computer scientists and bankers. Manufacturing, however, has continued to lag.
Putting these pieces together, there can be no mistaking the unusual bifurcation of the recent improvement in the American labor market. Lower-end industries, which employ 22 percent of the work force, accounted for 44 percent of new hiring from March to June. Higher-end industries, which make up 24 percent of overall employment, accounted for 29 percent of total job growth over the past four months.
In short, jobs are growing at both ends of the spectrum, but the low-paying jobs are growing much more quickly. The contribution of low-end industries to the recent pick-up in hiring has been almost double the share attributable to high-end industries.Want more? Read more of this New York Times article:
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Candidates say the darndest things (Part 2)
July 23, 2004 by jim stroudA candidate answered an ad for a job by sending a half-page-long resume as well as a color photo of him lounging on a beach, wearing a bathing suit, baseball cap on backwards and large, dark sunglasses. A note attached to the picture read: “I am in St. Martin. I figured you’d like to see the guy you’ll be hiring. How about sending me a picture of the person who’ll be launching me on a million-dollar career?”
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AUDIO: A new spin on working vacations
by jim stroud
Today’s Guest: Brian Kurth, Founder and President of VocationVacations Vocation Vacations is the only vacation company of its kind that offers you a risk-free opportunity to test out the job of your dreams under the guidance of an expert mentor who shares your passion. Now you can dive right into the career of your choice for a couple of days while on an otherwise traditional vacation — and you won
When the Home Office Is the Boss’s Home
July 22, 2004 by jim stroud“EVERYWHERE you look lately people are working from home. Home-based offices are the solution to the down-sized, the entrepreneurial and those seeking balance. With luck and with time, a lot of those one-person businesses will be successful, creating the need for the at-home worker to hire other workers – to work at the boss’s house. And while lots of attention has been given to the growing exodus of workers to their own homes, very little has been said about those who find themselves working from someone else’s.” Read: When the Home Office Is the Boss’s Home
AUDIO: Tony Lee, Editor in Chief, General Manager of CareerJournal.com
by jim stroud
Today’s Guest: Tony Lee, Editor in Chief, General Manager of CareerJournal.com Now Hiring: Urgent need for 3,000 workers…
July 21, 2004 by jim stroudAfter slashing more than 27,000 local jobs in three years, Boeing is putting its pink slips away and will add up to 3,000 workers in the Puget Sound area by the end of the year. Read: Boeing will hire up to 3,000: Navy deal, brighter forecast for jets create demand
If you can’t beat them, join them…
by jim stroud“For all the complaints about American jobs migrating here through outsourcing, few Americans have thought to follow them. Eight months ago, Josh Bornstein did. He quit his job at an investment banking firm in Los Angeles and came to this southern city on the Deccan plateau. He pays $110 a month to share a two-bedroom apartment with a Japanese roommate. He takes the company bus to work at the Infosys campus, as lush and large as Microsoft’s in Seattle. He has Indian, European, Israeli and Asian friends, and he has become a familiar figure on this city’s thriving pub scene. ‘Everyone talks about globalization left and right,’ he said. ‘This is the way the world is moving.”
AUDIO: A Day In The Life Of A Pharmaceutical Sales Rep
by jim stroud
Jim Stroud interviews Lisa Alexander, author of “Pharm Rep Select: Your Complete Guide To Getting A Job In Pharmaceutical Sales.” (2:35) Meet Lisa Alexander tonight at the Job-Fair Preparation and Interview Success Seminar. The seminar is free, but Registration by Telephone is Required (678-319-4449). Embassy Suites 1030 Crown Pointe Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia (Dunwoody) 7:00pm-8:00pm EST
This is why you dot your I’s and cross your tees…
July 20, 2004 by jim stroud
