Yearly Archives: 2010

What’s the “Next Big Thing” in the Job Market?

forecasting the fastest growing occupations over 10 years has proven to be an inexact science. Many job seekers who took the advice of career planners have found themselves stuck in…

Tattoos and Piercings Still Get Under Manager’s Skin

Today’s hiring managers tend to be from a generation when tattoos were limited to Marines, bikers, and gypsies. But that still doesn’t stop candidates from getting under the…

High Energy Employees: Prey for Poaching?

A recent study has called at-risk employees the “neglected warriors.”It’s the poaching of these employees that employers need to fear the most…

The Fallout from Freefalling Birth Rates in the Workplace

Birth rates in most developed countries are in a freefall. The United States is on the list of countries that producing enough children to prevent population decline…

How Effective Is Retraining After a Layoff?

While retraining may improve unemployed workers’ long-term prospects, many are struggling to find work in the short term…

White-Collar Jobs: Latest Victims of Recession and Technology

Blue-collar workers aren’t the only casualties of technology and a recession. Many professional jobs in finance, media, and even law and accounting will never be the same…

Critical Job Skills You’ll Need in the Future

The definition of work and, consequently, the definition of a job is changing. The evolution from agrarian and industrial age jobs to service and knowledge work is nearing its completion…

Unemployment Statistics Rely on Fuzzy Math

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, “it isn’t all that simple to work out how many Americans are out of work…

Did the recession gives employers an excuse for shedding under-skilled workers?

It’s like the recession justified a business cleansing — wholesale layoffs, plant closings and outsourcing for the sake of avoiding bankruptcy or closing a business entirely…

Birth rates decline: The death of youth?

Birth rates in most developed countries are in a freefall. The U.S. joined the list of countries that are not giving birth to enough children to keep their populations…