WASHINGTON — Even though new claims for jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, dipping below 600,000 for the first time since early...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media
24-year-old Matt Egan of Edison, NJ has been covering the stock market for Fox Business Network since September 2007, after graduating from the Colleg...
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
Having a successful career takes planning. To build the career you want think of yourself as the architect of your ultimate dream. You need a vision, a blueprint and the resources to build it.
Emily Bracken | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy
There are jobs to be had, just maybe not where you were looking. Just add "intern" or "free" to any search and you'll come upon hundreds of hits.
bloomberg.com | Oliver Staley | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
Nationally, 27 percent of about 1.6 million graduating seniors plan to work for nonprofit groups or governments, an increase from 23 percent in 2008, ...
Jun. 19, 2009 | Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.Com Senior Writer | Posted 07.20.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate increases in May, the government reported Friday...
New York Post | AMBER SUTHERLAND | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
Two NYU grads and a pal who love living in the Big Apple but don't want to pay its high rents are happy campers -- each shells out $100 a month to pit...
nytimes.com | SUSAN SAULNY and ROBBIE BROWN | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business
Wendy Roberson, a state employee in California, founded the Fun Furlough Fridays Club partly as a joke, but also because she honestly believed that sh...
Ali Weinberg | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
I have a job; therefore I should feel a bit of "survivor guilt," even if I deserved my success just as much as any of my peers.
minyanville.com | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business
In past American recessions, when the US still had a healthy manufacturing economy, blue-collar workers often suffered the worst unemployment. And tho...
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
Let them know the transition from company owner to employee is something you are embracing rather than enduring, and that this position is an important step along the way to your ultimate career goal.
Reuters | Emily Kaiser | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. housing bust and auto sector upheaval have left hundreds of thousands of workers looking for jobs in the same sectors,...
Eli Davidson | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living
Network with everyone and do it all the time. Help comes from the most unlikely people and places sometimes.
Alex McCord | Posted 06.15.2009 | Entertainment
The sun is shining and things are looking up. As the Real Housewives madness shifts into book writing and work madness, I am taking a moment to be grateful.
BusinessWeek | Peter Coy | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
Sound like good news? It's not. Instead, it's evidence of an emerging structural shift in the U.S. economy that has created serious mismatches between...
Alex McCord | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment
Although I'm not completely sure whether we've passed Hurricane Layoff or whether we're in the eye, the internal nonsense is beginning to clear out.
Alex McCord | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment
Try to minimize time you have to spend with wackos. If you work with them, keep discussions short and business-related. If they are frenemies, simply avoid them.
Grant Cardone | Posted 05.10.2009 | Business
Decide that you are going to get a job and eliminate all other options. Treat unemployment benefits like the plague and a non-option.
Alex McCord | Posted 05.07.2009 | Entertainment
I attended a seminar about self-branding. Now, in my recent career I've had great fun working on corporate brand identity, copy writing, etc., but never really turned those skills inward.
Alex McCord | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
I had some good meetings as well. There's the licensing of a clothing line, a cosmetics company looking for a face, a product line looking for an ambassador, and commercial opportunities.
Alex McCord | Posted 05.01.2009 | Entertainment
What makes mine different than other job searches? When I walked into a career center recently, people recognized me. "Wow, you were laid off too? It really can happen to anyone."
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 04.08.2009 | Business
You've heard this a million times, "Make looking for a job, your full-time job". The question is how? We will give you all of the advice that you need.
Reuters | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- U.S. private sector job losses accelerated in February, according to a report by ADP Employer Services on Wednesday that came in...
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business
If you are presented with a great new job opportunity evaluate all the pros and cons carefully, but realize that advancing your career can sometimes entail a certain degree of risk.
Candy Spelling | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business
For the first time ever in our country's history -- due in part to recent massive layoffs and cutbacks -- women will soon outnumber men in the full-time U.S. workforce. Equal numbers and equal pay?
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business