Tag: UNEMPLOYMENT

Landing a job in a stagnant labor market, as many have found out, is no easy task. The process only becomes more frustrating when cyber-criminals begin capitalizing on that desperation for their own parasitic benefit. As the Wall Street Journal reports, increasing numbers of scammers have begun posting fake job ads across the Internet in the hopes of luring optimistic job seekers into their ...

Share The now former CEO of Sun Microsystems shared his resignation with the world late last night. Via Twitter. In haiku form. "Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more." With those words Jonathan Schwartz stepped down from the position he's held since 2006, a move which is partially in response to the company being acquired by Oracle. According to the New York Times, ...

A mere 15 years ago, job hunting required serious work. The unemployed and the discontent were forced to endure extensive letter writing, cold calling, and frequent trips to the copy store to create professional resumes. Don't even get us started on job fairs. The Internet age has completely altered that job-hunting dynamic; faxing a resume to everyone in the yellow pages, scouring paper ...

This February, Abigail Keller -- a 27-year-old, full-time reserve officer on Altoona, Iowa's police force -- resigned over controversy surrounding questionable pictures posted to her MySpace account. Keller was in her fifth month of reserve duty, the Des Moines Register reported today, when a local businessman showed print-outs of the page to a city officer. Police Chief John Gray, testifying at ...

If you've been negatively affected by the global recession and are struggling to get by, then trust us when we reassure you that you're not alone. Many careers have been shredded like so much paperwork, leaving many to search for new jobs. Admirably, Microsoft is doing what it can to help by offering people free vouchers to get trained and certified in various computer technologies. Over the next ...

So, you've lost your job, your main squeeze (or mistress), and some creditors are about to repossess your car (if they can find your secret parking spot three blocks from your apartment). It's tough out there. On the plus side, now you've got more time than you could possibly imagine to play those video games you bought that are just collecting dust. But what should you spend your new-found ...

The plight of the unemployed is front page news in this country, and with good reason. Millions of people have lost their jobs and and are now facing a very uncertain future. What hasn't been discussed (at least not by us) are the people doing the firing. Laying off an employee cannot be easy in the first place (unless the person doing it is a sociopath/sadist). And with the line between ...

The struggling economy is making life difficult for many Americans, and now a lack of updated technology is making it worse for the jobless. How's that, you ask? Because the soaring amount of unemployment claims across the country has crashed e-mail sites and turned phone lines into virtual traffic jams, making it harder for people to get aid. States like New York and California have had their ...