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Posted by Brian McCullough Maybe you saw the headlines this morning. The latest jobs number was pretty terrible. Only 69,000 new jobs were created in May. That doesn’t even keep up with population growth. Even worse, previous months numbers were revised downward. Basically, the job market is stuck in the mud again. So where ARE […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough A lot of you liked this post wherein I shared some data about which industries might be hiring. So, again, I want to do what I did there and rip off someone else’s chart to give you some data. This time, we’re looking backward. So far in this recession, which industries […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Useful graph from The Washington Independent.

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Posted by Brian McCullough They’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 […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough From 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 […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough If 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 […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough I’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 […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfBnt65-rNE]

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Posted by Brian McCullough As 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 […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough This 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 […]

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