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More People Apply for Unemployment Benefits, Reversing Trend
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first increase in three weeks. Still, the broader trend points to a slowly healing jobs market. The government says applications for unemployment benefits rose 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 412,000 for the week ended April 9. That left applications at their highest point since mid-February. Applications near 375,000 are consistent with a sustained increase in hiring. Applications peaked during the recession at 659,000. The four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, rose to 395,750. However, ...
Job Openings Rise to Highest Point Since September 2008
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Businesses in February posted the largest number of job openings in more than two years, evidence that hiring is picking up as the economy grows. The Labor Department said Wednesday that employers advertised 3.1 million available jobs that month, the most since September 2008. That was the height of the financial crisis, when Lehman Brothers collapsed. The competition for those jobs is easing, though still intense. The department's report shows that there were 4.4 people, on average, competing for each available job in February. That's down from nearly 7 in July 2009, but still ...
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Despite Employment Perils, US Is Finally Hiring -- for These Jobs
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsThe jobs may finally be coming back. After a financial crisis and recession that knocked more than 8.5 million people out of work and a faltering economic recovery that couldn't even produce enough new jobs to employ graduates and other new entrants to the labor force, the U.S. private sector last month created jobs at a healthy pace. Non-farm payrolls increased by 192,000 in February, the Labor Department reported today. And while budget-strapped state and local governments continued to issue pink slips at an alarming rate, the private sector added 220,000 new posts. The unemployment rate ...
Unemployment Dips to 8.9 Percent, 192K Jobs Added
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Employers in February hired at the fastest pace in almost a year and the unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent - a nearly two-year low. The economy added 192,000 jobs last month, with factories, professional and business services, education and health care among those expanding employment. Retailers, however, trimmed jobs. State and local government, wrestling with budget shortfalls, slashed 30,000 jobs, the most since November. The government's report Friday bolstered hopes that employers will shift into a more aggressively hiring mode and allow the economic recovery to get on ...
Jobs Market Convalescence Could Take a Long Time
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsThe U.S. jobs market may finally be on the verge of an actual recovery, but expect it to come back with a whimper rather than a bang. The Labor Department today said the number of people who filed for unemployment insurance last week was just 368,000. That's the lowest number of weekly jobless claims reported by the government since May 2008, before the full force of the financial crisis slammed into the American economy, and it marks a drop of 20,000 from the previous week's total. Chris Hondros, Getty Images An unemployed man looks over job listings on a board at a New York ...
Never List 'God' as a Reference on a Resume
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsAdvice for a successful job search often includes the tip that it is who, rather than what, you know. Let's hope that explains some of the results from a study by an international recruitment agency that said one job seeker submitted a resume citing "God" as a professional reference, while another was written in rhyme. Recent global surveys by CareerBuilder.com and its British partner CareerBuilder.co.uk have revealed some of the more unusual resumes received by employers. Across the United States, hiring managers revealed that one applicant included "God" as a reference -- but did not ...
Opinion: Time to End Employers' Credit Check Abuse
By Mark Grabowski - AOL NewsIf you're having trouble paying bills, it would seem the responsible thing to do would be to get a job, or to get a better paying job. Unfortunately, the reason you need the job may be the same reason you don't get it. Employers are increasingly -- and inappropriately -- using credit checks to screen job applicants and occasionally to monitor current employees. Cassandra Hubbart, AOL Employers now routinely check job applicants' credit ratings before making a hiring decision. Sixty percent of employers conduct credit checks on at least some applicants, with 13 percent doing it ...
Opinion: Refuse to Hire Smokers? What's Next?
By not in system - AOL NewsThe latest trend in legalized discrimination is against health care workers who smoke, as The New York Times points out in a recent article. It's totally understandable for a hospital not to allow smoking on its property. After all, the property belongs to the hospital, and many hospitals are "public." As a proponent of property rights, I'd agree that only the owners of a property should be able to make that decision. Another View on Hiring Smokers Why Not Discriminate Against Smokers? -- Jacob Sullum, senior editor, Reason magazine And it's understandable for ...
Winter Weather Isn't What's Ailing a Sick Jobs Economy
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsAmid some awfully wicked weather, the U.S. economy last month eked out a feeble number of new jobs, and hundreds of thousands of Americans stopped looking for work, which paradoxically contributed to a drop in the unemployment rate. But today's weak report from the Labor Department wasn't the result of a wintry economic cold. Rather, it was just the latest symptom of the long-term labor market affliction that has yet to evolve into a sustainable recovery. In responding to the news, Austan Goolsbee, the chief economic adviser to President Barack Obama, called the economic trends of recent ...
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