Jobs outlook worsens in October
America’s unemployed are only seeing gloom and doom. The job picture worsened in October 2009. The Consumer Confidence Index, released by The Conference Board, sank unexpectedly to 47.7 in October — its second-lowest reading since May. Forecasters predicted a higher reading of 53.1. A reading above 90 means the economy is on solid footing. Above [...]
10 Reasons Employment Is Worse Than You Think
Billionaire and Editor-in-chief of US News and World report, Mort Zuckerman had an interesting Op-Ed article in Wall Street Journal explaining why the Employment outlook is worse than you think.
Per Mr. Zuckerman, this is the true underlying story.
The recent unemployment numbers have undermined confidence that we might be nearing the bottom of the recession. [...]
10 Interesting things to do when you are laid off
There are a ton of articles on the internet about what to do right after you are laid off. Negotiate a severance package, be positive, spruce up all your old contacts etc. Most people who are laid off take a two step process. Step one – get a job to pay the bills. Step two [...]
Just released – jobs.8hours.com
We have just released our job site. We partnered with SimplyHired to get this going. SimplyHired is the one of the largest Job aggregators on the internet, and it averages more than 5.3 million visitors monthly. Compare that to Dice.com, a popular tech job board, which has only 890K unique visitors. Graph below.
We have, on [...]
