The unemployment rate for May was released this week – 9.4%. Pretty miserable but fortunately not as high as the10.8% we hit in the recession of 1982, right? Well, actually no. Dig a little deeper and a more negative picture emerges.
The reason is that 9.4% reflects the core unemployment rate defined as [...]
Time can rob you blind, especially if you’re out of work. How many weeks until your severance or COBRA ends? How many weeks after that until your savings are used up? How many hours are there in the day to look for your next gig?
At GetHired we always advocate working smarter rather than just longer [...]
When I headed to lunch yesterday I took along last week’s Time Magazine cover story on the future of work http://tinyurl.com/r7pu6h. It was a great accompaniment to my yankee bean soup and tuna sandwich. The article is actually a series of 10 essays from a group of Time reporters who specialize in [...]