Military veterans often struggle to find employment after completing their service for a number of cultural and socioeconomic reasons. But keen job search techniques can help veterans to snag a job when transferring back into civilian life.

Since the recession of 2008, workers across the U.S. have been struggling...

Due to the recent government sequester, many federal positions may be in trouble. In fact, $85 billion budget cuts later, many government jobs have either been reduced, salaries cut, or they've been eliminated altogether. Outplacement services may be your next best bet.

If you're one of the...

Oftentimes, we hear job seekers gripe about employers in regards to their job search. In fact, a recent TalentDrive survey spelled it out perfectly: 71 percent of job seekers were pessimistic about their career search, feeling they possessed the required skill set but were not getting hired. In...

When faced with the prospect of unemployment, any job that pays the bills quickly seems more appealing than it did before. But at the end of the day, hopping from bad job to bad job will put you in an endless rut. I get it though -- we're all busy...

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

This week, Martin Luther King Jr. Day reminds us to make an impact during our time off from work. In fact, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is actually meant to be a Day of Service, which many...

With the Federal Reserve predicting unemployment to stay elevated until late 2015, the question for job seekers is, "What do we do moving forward?" But in my opinion, the long-term solution to the problem is looking backward at our educational system's lack of focus on career education.

Students...

It's almost a new year, but high unemployment rates, sky high federal debt and our hyperpartisan Congress will unfortunately be grandfathered into the new year. In our post-election political landscape, the spotlight has turned to President Barack Obama and how he plans to change our nation's current circumstance.

Unemployment in...

The unemployment rate has been taking dips, dives, and regains over the past four years. For the jobless and unemployed, President Barack Obama has a plateful of issues to handle in the coming months. In the coming weeks, the U.S. will be on the literal brink of the...

It's that special season that comes every four years when policy is in the air, political pundits are on the move, and campaign messages are penetrating each and every household. Election season is upon us once again, and it seems that at no time in recent history has an election...

When your company has an open position, announcing it to the public on job sites means opening up the floodgates. You'll likely experience an influx of submissions from job seekers who are looking for work that belong to every end of the experience spectrum. Faced with this issue,...

While the unemployment rate dropped last month, of the hundreds of thousands of people that flooded out of the labor force, many likely gave up on their job search. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number has decreased from 8.2 percent in July...

Displaced workers comprise a significant chunk of our country's unemployed workers. A displaced worker is defined as "persons 20 years of age and older who lost or left jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position...

Job seekers and employers alike anxiously awaited the declaration of the July jobless numbers only to be disappointed by what was announced. Yes, employers added 163,000 jobs, which was the largest payroll gain since February and much higher than the 95,000 economists forecast, but the unemployment rate still...

After a few months of disappointing job creation numbers, unemployment in our country remains stubbornly high. The national rate is 8.2 percent, but some states have it worse than others -- California, Nevada and Rhode Island have percentages of 10.8, 11.6 and 11.0, respectively. The jobs picture is...