Job Market

New Poll Reveals U.S. Adults View Temporary Employment as Best Option Following Layoff » More than half of U.S. adults (54%) agree that finding a temporary job is the best… Read more

IT Certifications Grow in Importance in Hiring Process: CompTIA Study » Employers are inclined to rely heavily on professional certifications when hiring information technology workers. However, they are challenged by… Read more

How To Save Yourself Lots Of Time In The Job Hunt » Balancing work, family and friends is tough enough without throwing a job hunt on top of it. Your… Read more

Executive Pay Out Of Sync, Says Pay Specialist » An executive pay specialist has claimed that the chief executive of Associated British Foods (ABF) is overpaid by £200,000. Read Executive… Read more

When They Don’t Call To Offer You The Job » A friend of mine, we’ll call her Jane, was looking for a job in online media. She’s lively, razor sharp… Read more

The City’s Top Headhunter On Why Firms Still Need To Recruit The Best » PERHAPS not surprisingly, Odgers Berndtson’s boss was in an upbeat mood when City A.M. visited him… Read more

Study Finds a $17,000 Gender Pay Gap For New Physicians » We were intrigued by a post over on the WSJ’s The Juggle blog, on the gender pay gap in… Read more

The Better Read on US Employment? » The most accurate read on U.S. employment, Cramer said Friday, comes from staffing and outsourcing companies, like SFN Group. Read The Better Read… Read more

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Job Report Muddies Outlook » Meager January job growth and uncertainty about winter weather’s effect on the numbers stirred concerns about the economic recovery, even as the unemployment rate fell… Read more

US Department of Labor launches ‘My Next Move’ for jobseekers » Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today unveiled a new online tool called My Next Move. The tool is… Read more

Manpower CEO: U.S. Hiring Is on the Upswing » If you want insight into what’s going on in the U.S. labor market, you can delve into the data released by… Read more

S&P 500 Beating The Street On Revenue » More U.S. companies are exceeding sales forecasts than any time in four years, helping extend the biggest stock-market rally since 1936. Read… Read more

LinkedIn launches Beta Release of LinkedIn Skills » LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 90 million members worldwide, today launched the beta release of… Read more

Labor Shortage Persists in Some Fields » There are nearly 14 million people looking for a job, but few have the skills to fill the four computer engineering openings at… Read more