Teens are facing the most difficult summer hiring season in decades, according to a recent report in the LA Times. According to neighbors, it’s been the most difficult hiring season for last four years!
The unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds hovered at 26.4% in May — the highest May figure since the Bureau of Labor [...]
(not sure where this good reminder came from but glad it was emailed to us)
Keep it Clean, Stick to Details and Make your Point.
Everyone needs an up to date resume. You’ve heard it before and you’ve thought about putting one together. Chances are you haven’t updated yours since you got your last job. Do it [...]
It just isn’t right. They sell drugs for less cost than for what we can buy them in America and now they have more jobs than we do?
Last month, Canada, a nation with roughly one tenth of America’s population, created about 10,000 more new jobs than America.
Canada’s economic recovery is outpacing its neighbor’s. Canada [...]
The Long Beach Board of Education may approve a final layoff list containing 557 names, mostly teachers, but also other employees requiring special state credentials to work with kids. But the board at the same meeting last week would rescind 200 of those layoff notices to fulfill an obligation under a labor agreement between the [...]
Ah, they’re at it again and we should be so glad. The guys who caused us all to go into the recession are now hiring – what does that mean – the rest of the country is unemployed?
Big banks and brokerages have done very well with the federal rescue of 2008. The NY stock exchange [...]
Bizpain (bizpayn) n. (slang) 1. Mental suffering related to your occupation. 2. Unpleasant feeling caused by job-related loss of control. 3. The conflict you feel with the people you work with. 4. The knot in your gut on Sunday when you remember you have to work tomorrow. 5. (old use) punishment. Bizpain v. to cause [...]
Heeeeez baaaaaaack!
The general who pioneered the counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan is now overseeing it. Again. He’s back and McCrystal is out.
“We are in this to win,” he said as he took the reins of the unpopular effort.
If that’s so, then how does it all work with Obama’s pledge to withdraw US forces in July [...]
The White House spends a grand total of $38,796,307 a year in staff salaries. That’s nearly 40 Million Dollars.
A full list of its employees titles and salaries on Friday, July 2, 2010.
Those salaries range from $0 for some policy advisers to $172,200 for Obama’s top aides like Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Special Adviser [...]
