Job Hunting Made Easier with CareerBuilder and Indeed.com

Indeed.com is one of these helpful tools. The site which offers jobs in several different languages including, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, basically aggregates all the job listings from newspapers, job boards, and internet sites, and delivers them to you, free of charge. The company which was founded in 2005, prior to the recent mess within our economy, by Paul Foster, and Rony Kahna, has quickly shot up to become one of the most widely used online job searches in the industry.

Although the prospects of a job may seem far fetched at this time, doing frequent searches online at the various job sites out there have been proven to shorten the job hunting process significantly.

Temporary UPS Jobs Available

The Holiday season runs from Thanksgiving until Christmas. While UPS will only be hiring temporary workers for these additional positions, this does not mean you are guaranteed to get laid off once the Holiday season ends. Every year, the company keeps some of the better works in regions where they need them the most.

If you are interested in working for UPS during the holiday season, you can find more information at http://upsjobs.com.

The United Parcel Service is based out of Atlanta Georgia. About 2,000 of these jobs will be available in Georgia.

Visit Fluidnow for Florida Unemployment Claims

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 for unemployment in the state. You must claim your weeks every two weeks until you are employed again, if you wish to continue to receive your unemployment benefits.

Some people are reporting that the Fluidnow website is not loading. If this is the case for you, you can access the Florida Unemployment website at http://floridajobs.org/unemployment/uc-emp_claims.html

If you are looking to file your initial claim, you can do it at this website as well. The site above lists all the information you need to know if you are looking to file for unemployment, or check your unemployment status in the state of Florida.

Check the Indiana Unemployment website

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 website:
“Sunday, October 3, 2010 is the start of a new quarter. After filing vouchers this weekend claimants should check their homepages again and respond to any links asking for information if they appear. Federal law states that in some cases claimants may be required to file a new claim. If you are required to file a new claim a link will appear on your Uplink homepage. If you are required to file a new claim, check your homepage 48 hours after you file the new claim to fill out your weekly voucher or to respond to any more requests for information. All claimants should continue to file weekly vouchers as they appear on their Uplink homepage.”

Not everyone needs to file a new claim, or submit any additional information. To find out if you need to file a new claim, you are asked to sign in to the website listed above.

CareerBuilder

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 survey. Last year, only 22% of Americans were living from paycheck to paycheck.

On top of these results, 1/2 of those surveyed said that they are currently limiting their leisurely activities, such as going out to eat, going to sporting events, movies, etc.

This CareerBuilder study really puts a light on how the majority of the U.S. is dealing with the economical downturn.

Just when you thought you were alone in your struggles, you realize that you are the vast majority. These numbers were only based on those who already had jobs.

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 the average hourly earnings per worker climbed 3 cents to $19.08, however the average work week remained unchanged from the month before at 34.2 hours.

The stock market has been looking for any glimmer of hope that it can come by, that the US is not headed towards a double dip recession. These job numbers, along with numbers earlier this week indicating that home prices rose last month, certainly are helping things. The Dow is up about 250 points from where it closed last week.

Unemployment Improving?

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 decline of 31,000 which is three times what was expected.

The statistic refers to the applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. It does not include those people who were already collecting unemployment. These numbers are slightly encouraging for a job market that has not had much good news lately. After last weeks news that 504,000 people had filed for unemployment the week before, a lot of analysis were not expecting much improvement. The 504,000 new claims was the highest we’ve seen since November.

There doesn’t seem to be any special underlying cause for the larger than expected drop, according to the Labor Department. It will be interesting to see what happens this week and the coming few weeks. Perhaps the job market is getting better after all.

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 listening to and translating Ebonics heard while monitoring secretly recorded conversations within narcotic investigations. The jobs will be at the Atlanta Georgia Drug Enforcement Administrations field office.

Ebonics is a subject of much debate. In the 1990′s a California school district passed a resolution which recognized the language as legitimate. They wanted to teach Ebonics to some of the African American students. At the time the debate of the school districts’ decision created a political war, garnering national attention for the language.

John Braugh, who is considered an expert on African American English, gave his opinion on the recent job openings, saying, “They probably want reliable expertise to make sure they’ve got an accurate interpretation for what is said,” he said.”Because there’s the perception in many minds that you don’t need a translator, people believe they’ve understood something when they haven’t.”

Unemployment still not improving

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 to those who are actively looking for new jobs, after being layed off of their previous jobs.

Many job seekers are wondering when the job market will get better. Economists are mixed on their predictions. Some believe it is about to turn around now, while others believe that we have over a year to go before things change. Employment numbers are considered to be a lagging indicator, meaning they tend to get better after the economy has begun to recover. Job numbers usually are not analyzed to see which direction the economy is turning.

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 rest of the nation.

The Unemployment rate of the nation sits at 9.6% as I write this article, but the state of Wisconsin has only 8.1% of it’s population unemployed.  While the nation has been struggling to employ it’s population, the people of Wisconsin, although not happy with the job situation, sit in a much better place than many of the other states.  The reason for the lower unemployment could simply be due to the fact that Wisconsin is primarily a manufacturing state.

Wisconsin happens to lead the nation in the production of low horsepower gasoline engines, cranes, hoists, and mining machinery. With over 15 million acres of forests, the state is also among the leaders in wood product manufacturing.