How to Reject an Offer and Save the Relationship

Can you mend relations with a company who offered you a job, but you then rejected? This question was recently asked to The Wall Street Journal by the wife of an individual who received two job offers, accepted one, but now believes he should have taken the other one.
The rejected company told her husband he [...]

Actuary Jobs Top “10 Best Jobs of 2010″ Survey

Actuaries top the list “10 Best Jobs in 2010″ reported by Careercast.com and the Wall Street Journal. Why? Primarily  because actuary jobs are in high demand.
The average compensation for an actuary with four years of experience is in the $91,000 to $133,000 range, said the WSJ article. And demand remains high for the specialized Insurance [...]

Companies Plan to Hire More C-Level, VP-Level and Director-Level Executives in 2010

Several surveys and reports indicate companies plan to hire more C-level executives, vice presidents and directors in the next 12 months, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Slightly more than half of 153 recruiters surveyed earlier this month said they expect a 19% rise in executive-search assignments during the first half of 2010, reports ExecuNet, a networking organization for [...]

American Express CEO Chenault Challenges Congress on Jobs

If the employment situation doesn’t improve soon, voters are going to hold Congress and the Obama administration responsible, said Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express at a summit of CEOs hosted Monday by the Wall Street Journal.
This is an opportunity for business to really seek out a clarion call to say we’re going to be [...]

Expect a Small Raise in 2010: Survey

Frozen and reduced salaries are so 2009. Raises and promotions should be back at work in 2010, according to a survey by Hewitt Associates.
Eighty-three percent of companies surveyed said they will be giving raises in 2010, according to a Wall Street Journal article on the Hewitt survey. The size of the raises, however, will be [...]

What a Long, Strange Job Posting It Is

Deadheads and jam-band enthusiasts, hear this one out, man: Someone wants to pay you to listen to and organize the entire Grateful Dead archive… Far out.
The band bequeathed their entire anthology to the University of California at Santa Cruz and needs a full time archivist with a master’s degree to manage and oversee the entire [...]

Severance Is Running Out on the Economic Recovery

Weak consumer spending continues to hamper the struggling economic recovery and  consumer spending could actually drop further yet, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Many professionals have endured unemployment much as if they were still employed, relying on severance packages to maintain their lifestyle and, to an extent, the economy has been bolstered by what the [...]

Employment Background Checks Send Job Seekers to Court

Wall Street Journal: U.S. job seekers are crashing into the worst employment market in years and background checks that reach deeper than ever into their pasts. The result: a surge of people seeking to legally clear their criminal records.
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Temporary Hires Surge in October

Temporary hires surged in October, according to numbers released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
BLS statistics showed temporary help services added 44,000 jobs since July, including 34,000 last month,according to the Wall Street Journal, and the surge could be a sign of full time hiring to come.
Staffing firms say employers are turning to [...]

Bad Math Accounts for 20,000 Extra Stimulus Jobs

The Obama administration said Friday that federal economic stimulus spending had directly created or saved about 640,000 jobs through Sept. 30.  Republicans challenged the claim, and an analysis by the Wall Street Journal supports the Republican challenge.
The number of jobs created or saved by the federal economic stimulus  could be overstated by at least 20,000, [...]