TheJobBored

ShareThey’re not in Oregon, apparently. Anyone else got some state-specific numbers?
Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 12.1 percent in March from 10.7 percent (as revised) in February. The state’s unemployment rate has risen rapidly and substantially over the past nine months, from a rate of 5.9 percent in June 2008.
Source article here.

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ShareFrom the “why has no one thought of this before” file, I have a link you should all visit and bookmark:
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/HotJobs100
HotJobs has launched the HotJobs100 List.
The HotJobs 100, showcasing many of the top U.S. employers, is a great starting point for job seekers who want to know which companies are experiencing robust hiring activity.
In [...]

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ShareIf you’ve been pounding the pavement locally for a while now and your job search has turned up nothing, I’ve got some simple advice for you:
Go where the jobs are.
No job market is equal. Even in a generally bad job market, there are places where they can’t seem to find enough people to fill their [...]

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ShareI’ve written before that I’m worried people chained to underwater mortgages will upset the supply and demand balance in the job market.
One of the unique things about the American job landscape is the ability of workers to easily go to where the jobs are. If you can’t find decent work in New Jersey, you can [...]

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ShareAs we all know, even in a recession, not all areas of the economy suffer equally… or at all. As I said before, 2002 would have been a bad year to work in computer programming, but would have been a great year to be hired as a programmer at Google.
And this is true for geography [...]

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ShareThis week’s BusinessWeek has the first solid statistics I’ve seen that prove that health care is the new plastics. (The Graduate reference) By that I mean, health care is finally fulfilling its promise as THE growth industry of the next 50 years.
For about 15 years now, prognosticators have sworn up and down that, for population [...]

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ShareBack in January I pointed out some data that seemed to suggest where in the country the job market was still holding up.
In this weekend’s New York Times, there was the usual hand wringing article suggesting that maybe the job market has turned nasty.
But right next to the article (if you follow the link, scroll [...]

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ShareIt looks like the tough times are spreading to the retail sector as we started to fear last week.
First there was the bad news from Best Buy.
Now there is widespread expectation that the major retails will be reporting sluggish sales this week.
As always, I’m not an economist. But part of what I want to do [...]

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ShareOk, I can explain the odd title and the unusual picture. Stick with me. (Tip for younger readers, that’s Laverne and Shirley)
Once again Cheezhead led me to some interesting job search statistics.
This report by the Conference Board samples and outlines the volume of online help-wanted classified postings nationwide. It shows some interesting data pointing to [...]

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