With unemployment rates approaching 10% in many areas, job searches seem to be a difficult task for many. The one positive we have now, vs. 20 years ago, is that we have the internet to help us. In the past, a job search involved looking through the daily newspaper, or walking into potential places of [...]
The United Parcel Service, also know as UPS, has said that they will be adding approximately 50,000 news jobs for the Holidays this year. Every year around this time, UPS decides to add temporary workers, since business picks up so much. The Holiday season runs from Thanksgiving until Christmas. While UPS will only be hiring [...]
Today is the first Monday of October, meaning it’s time to go to the Florida Unemployment Claim website (Fluidnow) and claim your weeks. The website can be found at http://fluidnow.com. Every two weeks claimants in Florida must claim their weeks to continue and receive their unemployment benefits. This begins two weeks after you initially file [...]
Today is the beginning of eligibility to file a new unemployment claim for the forth quarter if you are receiving Indiana unemployment benefits. All unemployment claimants may log in to the Indiana Workforce Development Website run by Uplink. The website can be accessed at https://uplink.in.gov The following notice has been posted on the Indiana Unemployment [...]
Online Job search website CareerBuilder recently took a survey of close to 4,500 American workers. According to the results, just about 80% of people who are not looking for jobs, but instead, have jobs, said that they are currently living from paycheck to paycheck. The 80% number is an extremely large jump from last years [...]
The stock market is up in pre-trading this morning, as the Commerce Department released the latest data for private sector jobs. The numbers were a blowout of expectations, as the US added 67,000 private sector jobs in August. Analysts expected an increase of only 30,000 jobs. In addition to an increase in jobs last month [...]
New jobless claims last week declined from 504,000 the previous week down to only 473,000 last week. This is good news in an otherwise dreary economy. 48 expert economists who were surveyed by the Dow Jones Newswires predicted that jobless claims would only fall by about 10,000 (median of those surveyed). Instead we saw a [...]
In this economic downturn when jobs are scarce, the US Department of Justice just added 9 new job openings to the economy. The the DEA has 9 openings for jobs with the title of Ebonics Translator. Basically what they need are nine individuals who can understand Ebonics and translate to other investigators. They will be [...]
Today comes word that the job market still is not improving. The weekly unemployment numbers are in, and they are not looking good. Last week, there were 500,000 new claims filed for unemployment. This number is higher than it has been in 9 months. Last week, there were 480,000 claims filed. Unemployment insurance is issued [...]
Barrack Obama is visiting Milwaukee Wisconsin today. He is expected to get a very warm reception in the mostly Democratic State. The Warm reception will not only be due to his party affiliation, but also due to the fact that the State of Wisconsin has a relatively low unemployment rate compared to that of the [...]
