February 11, 2008 – 8:07 pm
The number of online job listings is falling. According to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series, there were 3,362,500 online advertised vacancies in January. That was down 5% from December, a decline due, in great part, to seasonal hiring (retailers staff up for the holidays in December and flex down after the [...]
February 8, 2008 – 7:03 pm
Green is the new path to green, greenbacks that is. Read any magazine or website and you’ll find profiles of heavy-hitters and billionaires jumping on the green bandwagon. Al Gore, the man who publicized it all, is now a venture capitalist with a few billion to invest in green ventures. Gore and [...]
February 7, 2008 – 5:52 pm
Sweat Equity Enterprises (SEE), a three-year-old Manhattan nonprofit that partners professional designers with low-income students in New York and Rhode Island, is the brainchild of fashion magnate Marc Ecko and SEE executive director Nell Daniel. Daniel, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, came up with the idea of engaging urban youth [...]
February 6, 2008 – 6:43 pm
Most of the news on the economic recession downturn is bad. There’s simply no way around it. But, there are a few bright spots, the most important of which is the job markets that have continued to grow in spite of the decline.
There are ten markets that stand out in terms of job [...]
February 5, 2008 – 3:34 pm
Today is a big day. It’s “Super Fat Tuesday”, the day you can not only cast a ballot that may impact the future our entire nation and drink a Hurricane with enough liquor to tank a nation. I’m a Louisianian who now resides in California, so Fat Tuesday and Super Tuesday are both [...]
February 4, 2008 – 6:15 pm
A lot has been written about sexy, cutting-edge, ground-breaking businesses and careers. Scan the magazine rack and you’ll find that there is a mover-shaker, brainiac billionaire with a new idea or a big deal. I love these stories. I write some of these stories. But, the truth is that for every [...]
February 1, 2008 – 4:24 pm
The February 2008 edition of Careersthatdontsuck.com’s CareerCasts newsletter and podcast is available today. We’ve improved the look and layout of the newsletter, but what’s most exciting about this issue is that it is devoted to helping you and your career survive the recession. In fact, it’s entitled the “Recession Survival Kit”.
This packed issue [...]
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