Today’s In-Store Special: Multimillion Dollar Paychecks
While we await the House’s approval of the Bailout Plan Economic Rescue plan, I thought I’d distract you with tales from a world a smidge closer to Main Street–the retail industry. My friends and I used to joke about what a nightmare it would be to end up working retail. Wouldn’t you know it, I [...]
Math We Love: Adding Jobs (ReduxII)
Here are few more companies with jobs to give. Leggett & Platt Inc., a conglomerate of manufacturing companies, will add over 340 jobs. Meebo, a Mountainview, CA-based startup, is ramping up its hiring of designers, account managers, engineers and sales execs. Motorola is hiring strategists, software designers, account reps, retail sales managers and more in [...]
Math We Love: Adding Jobs (Redux)
Finally, a bit of good news. There are companies still adding jobs. Here’s a taste. NOW HIRING Victoria’s Secret Direct plans to hire 435 employees (255 seasonal) at its Kettering, OH customer care center and 360 workers (120 seasonal) at its Rio Rancho, NM customer care center. Victoria’s Secret is also hiring at its corporate [...]
States With the Most Available Jobs
According to the Conference Board’s Help-Wanted Online Data Series, there was an increase in the number of jobs posted online in five of seven Census regions, bringing the total number of jobs posted in August to nearly 5 million. Here’s a list of the states with the most jobs posted online. States With the Most [...]
States With More Jobs Than Unemployed People
Believe or not, there are actually states with more available jobs posted online than there are unemployed people to take them. Time to pack a bag and hit the road to green job pastures. States With More Jobs Posted Than Unemployed People State South Dakota North Dakota Wyoming Nebraska Utah Montana Idaho Alaska Delaware Maryland [...]
There Are 4,833,700 Jobs Posted Online. Get One.
In all the doom and gloom about the financial markets, a little hunk of good news was trampled and ignored. But, I’ve rescued it! GOOD NEWS: There are 4,833,700 jobs posted online right now! 3,014,600 new jobs were posted in the month of August alone! The total number of jobs posted online increased by 7% [...]
Nearly 500,000 Unemployment Claims…And Counting!
New claims for unemployment benefits jumped to a seven-year high of 493,000! That’s nearly as high as the 517,000 claims following the 9/11 attacks and brings the grand total to 3.54 million people collecting unemployment benefits (another record). In just the past week (week ending Sept. 20), 32,000 people applied for unemployment benefits. According to [...]
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