• Look After Your Top Talent – They're Looking to Leave

    Look After Your Top Talent – They're Looking to Leave
    According to a recent Gallup poll, the odds that your employees will jump ship are growing. Today, employees are largely optimistic about the job market, spurring many to leave their jobs to search for better positions elsewhere. In August 2012, two million Americans voluntarily left their jobs. By August 2016, this number rose to three million.Millions ...
  • Theater Jobs Skew White and Male, Study Finds - New York Times

    Theater Jobs Skew White and Male, Study Finds - New York Times
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    Theater Jobs Skew White and Male, Study Finds
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    A line at the TKTS box office in Times Square, run by the Theater Development Fund. Credit Mark Abramson for The New York Times. Women and minority actors and stage managers are getting fewer jobs and often wind up in lower-paying shows than white ...
  • 9 Rules for No Excuse Business Traveling

    9 Rules for No Excuse Business Traveling
    I have published two books – one just hit bookstores – and have had several plays produced. I fly for a living, so most of that writing has been done on planes and in hotels.I knew I was in danger. Biz traveling is exhausting. If I didn't write while I traveled, 20 years would go by in a blink ...
  • The Line Between Software Company and Recruitment Agency Is Blurring – and That's a Good Thing

    The Line Between Software Company and Recruitment Agency Is Blurring – and That's a Good Thing
    One of the questions I get asked a lot is, "Is WeFind a software company or a recruiting agency?" I hate this question, mostly because it assumes you have to be either a software company or a recruiting company. For me, this raises further questions: What's the difference, and does it matter?Traditionally, there has been a very clear distinction between software companies and recruitment agencies. Major HR tech players ...
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  • 8 Ways to Avoid Burnout During the Job Search

    8 Ways to Avoid Burnout During the Job Search
    Allow me to tell you a story about a man I knew years back. His name was Ted. He was in his sixties, his health was failing, and he had a frail wife at home. I saw him often when I visited an urban career center in central Massachusetts.One day, I was conducting intakes of participants for a computer training program I was coordinating. I was exhausted after my sixth intake, so I walked over to where Ted always sat. ...
  • Interns: They Do More Than Get Your Coffee

    Interns: They Do More Than Get Your Coffee
    Summer is here, and you know what that means: Students from high school and up through to graduate school are looking for work – or at least ways to gain experience in and knowledge about the industries they want to pursue.That's where smart companies come in. There is a lot of valuable talent out there just waiting to help you, even if you don't have the budget to hire a full-time summer worker.
  • How to Use Facebook Ads to Recruit Your Industry's Brightest Minds

    How to Use Facebook Ads to Recruit Your Industry's Brightest Minds
    In today's high tech society, there are more ways than ever to reach out to top talent in your industry niche. But are job boards like Monster and Indeed or career-focused social media sites like LinkedIn your best bet?There's a good chance these resources consume a big part of your recruiting budget, but the sad truth is that the many people actively searching for employment on these sites aren't necessarily the ones your company needs. More often than not, your ...
  • The Cities Creating The Most High-Wage Jobs - Forbes

    The Cities Creating The Most High-Wage Jobs - Forbes
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    The Cities Creating The Most High-Wage Jobs
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    By Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires. As the country moves toward full employment, at least as economists define it, the quality of jobs has replaced joblessness as the primary concern. With wages still stagnant, rising an anemic 2.5% in the year to May ...
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  • How A.I. Can Help Remove Bias From the Recruiting Process

    How A.I. Can Help Remove Bias From the Recruiting Process
    Whether they know it or not, everybody is influenced by some degree of bias. That bias can become an especially big problem during the recruiting process.On average, every corporate job opening receives 250 resumes. That is a significant number of candidates to screen and compare. When unconscious bias enters the mix, recruiting and hiring pros may pass over perfectly qualified candidates for silly reasons. As the Wall Street ...
  • The What, Why, and When of Payroll Outsourcing

    The What, Why, and When of Payroll Outsourcing
    Running a business means juggling a variety of administrative responsibilities. Outsourcing payroll could make your job easier.Most successful entrepreneurs know how to delegate. To maintain a certain standard of service, roles and responsibilities must be passed to the right people in the business. In a larger sense, this is how outsourcing works: A third-party organization is engaged to take care of some essential administrative process, leaving the business itself – and its employees &n
  • How a Rising Minimum Wage Affects Jobs in Seattle - New York Times

    How a Rising Minimum Wage Affects Jobs in Seattle - New York Times
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    How a Rising Minimum Wage Affects Jobs in Seattle
    New York Times
    Staple & Fancy, a restaurant owned by Ethan Stowell Restaurants, in Seattle. The chain's chief executive said it was too early to judge the effect of the minimum-wage law. Credit David Ryder for The New York Times. Three years ago, Seattle became one ...
    New study of Seattle's $15 minimum wage says it costs jobsABC News
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  • LETTER: Business tax breaks don't create jobs - MyCentralJersey.com

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    LETTER: Business tax breaks don't create jobs
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    As we launch into the next election cycle there is one certain topic that will dominate the political discourse — jobs and the economy. We are going to be bludgeoned with the idea that somehow taxes and job growth are so tightly linked as to be ...
  • GRBJ: Well House receives grant for green jobs, housing - WZZM

    GRBJ: Well House receives grant for green jobs, housing - WZZM
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    GRBJ: Well House receives grant for green jobs, housing
    WZZM
    GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - A local housing-for-homeless nonprofit will give its tenants a new set of tools in their toolbox while allowing them to gain a new lease on life. Well House Executive Director Tami VandenBerg said this month that her organization ...
  • Kellyanne Conway: Those on Medicaid who will lose health insurance can always get jobs - CNBC

    Kellyanne Conway: Those on Medicaid who will lose health insurance can always get jobs - CNBC
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    Kellyanne Conway: Those on Medicaid who will lose health insurance can always get jobs
    CNBC
    On Sunday, while discussing the Senate's proposal to replace and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or "Obamacare"), White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told ABC's "This Week" that the people on Medicaid who will lose coverage under the ...
    Kellyanne Conway Defends Medicaid Cuts, Says Adults Can Always Find JobsHuffPostall 33 news articles »
  • Summer jobs for teens are vanishing - AZCentral.com

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    Summer jobs for teens are vanishing
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    WASHINGTON — It was at Oregon's Timberline Lodge, later known as a setting in the horror movie "The Shining," where Patrick Doyle earned his first real paycheck. He was a busboy. The job didn't pay much. But Doyle quickly learned lessons that served ...
    Kids don't work summer jobs like they used toSalt Lake Tribuneall 12 news articles »

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