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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Employment Scammers and How to Spot Them

28 March 2013

Times are tough out there. Which means a lot of workers are getting less picky about what they apply for – and many of them have let down their guard to trust someone – only to be disappointed. In...

Veterans Struggle to Enter Tight Job Market

26 February 2013

While there has been some good news for job seekers in recent months as the economy sputters along in a halting “recovery,” one group has still been largely left behind: Younger veteran...

Will Temp-Worker Surge Translate to Lasting Employment Gains?

25 January 2013

The good news is there’s been a surge in hiring. The bad news is that they’re temp jobs....

The Union Assault on Freedom of Association

21 November 2012

The State of Michigan – the Ground Zero of America’s union-strangled zombie legacy car manufacturing industry and the modern-day Mordor of union orcs – turned against its oppressors this month. ...

Big Data: We’re Looking for a Few Good Nerds (And When We Say “Few,” We Mean 4.4 Million of Them)

09 November 2012

10 or 15 years ago, it was all about bandwidth. big data hiring‘Rich, golden fields of bandwidth, waving in the wind,’ went one well-known technology company. Back then, the major difficulty for t...

Florida Workers to Lose Substantial Unemployment Benefits

30 October 2012

The good news is the unemployment rate has finallyunemployment benefits florida fallen in Florida. The bad news is that while it hasn’t fallen all that much, even that modest improvement in unemploy...