Federal minimum wage is still $5.15 per hour. There’s no increase on the horizon, at least federally. But, state governments are answering the call of the working poor by putting laws on the books that compel employers to pay more than minimum wage as a condition of doing business in the state. Still more states [...]
Job Title: Medical Detective
AKA: Medical Death Investigator, Medical Examiner, Pathologist, Forensic Pathologist, Coroner
What [...]
If you’re looking for a new job and you are willing to relocate, check out the Sunbelt cities with the fastest job growth.
Las Vegas -Thanks to conferences, real estate, immigration and casinos
Orlando -Thanks to Boomers, not babies (Disney-goers)
Riverside -Thanks to warehouses, distribution and call centers
Austin -Thanks to Toyota and tech
Phoenix -Thanks to financial services firms
Jacksonville [...]
Much ado has been made of what you wear, and more recently, “What Not to Wear”. I know that I have certainly had my fill of Stacy London on the Today Show dressing everyone from Boomers to babies. Does your what you wear to work still matter?
If you ask the writers of the [...]
Manpower, a leading employment services firm, recently published it’s annual Q4 Employment Survey. Manpower interviewed over 60,000 employers from 26 countries and territories and representing 10 industry sectors in an attempt “to measure anticipated employment trends” for their locations and industries between the months of October 2006 and December 2006.
Employers were asked, “How do you [...]
Changing careers is tough, and it only gets tougher the farther along you are in your career. The problem is that the more experience you gain in one profession, the less likely current and prospective employers are to believe you can work in another. Now, this is not true of every profession or every employer, [...]
Dice.com, a popular tech job posting site, now offers nifty quarterly reports on the tech job markets in select major metro areas. Metro areas highlighted include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, and of course, Silicon Valley (San Jose).
Dice.com’s quarterly local market reports basically provide a brief overview of the tech job [...]
Job Title:   Real Estate Stager
AKA:      Home Stager, Interior Decorator
What is it?
A real estate/home stager is basically an interior decorator that decorates homes or businesses in order to help home or business owners fetch a better price when they are trying to sell their homes.
What does a Real Estate/Home Stager do?
If you’ve never sold a [...]
TechCrunch is arguably the most popular tech blog on Silicon Valley biz. TechCrunch has broken major product and acquisition news about the big boys–Google, Apple, YouTube, etc. If you’re into this stuff, and you also happen to be in the market for a new job in a hot tech firm, you might check out TechCrunch’s [...]
We’ve all heard of working lunches, but a working vacation? Believe it or not, folks are not only willing to drag their laptops to the beach or crank out emails on their CrackBerries, they’re willing to use their vacation time to try out a new job! Oh and there’s more…they’re willing to pay to work? [...]
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