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Ten ways to make your boss love you - and save your job

Ten ways to make your boss love you - and save your job Could have stopped at 1"1. Make your boss look good"As long as your boss isn't going anywhere this is all it takes in the enterprise.

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

Growth in Search Terms Related to Economic Downturn in December 2008

Search Term Dec-2007 Dec-2008 % Change “Coupons” 7,637 19,921 161% “Unemployment” 2,688 8,214 206% “Discount” 6,271 7,928 26% “Mortgage” 4,518 7,756 72% “Bankruptcy” 1,012 2,589 156% “Foreclosure” 824 1,373 67% “Unemployment Benefits” 215 748 247% ...

Tags: Unemployment, Mortgages, Litigation, Personal Finance, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, NB

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Who searches for the keyword “unemployment�

Term: “Unemployment” Share of Clicks Following Search Index Age of Head of Household 18-24 4.2% 118 25-34 23.5% 126 35-44 24.4% 86 45-54 26.5% 96 55-64 14.4% 101 65+ 7.1% 90...

Tags: Unemployment, Household, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Search, Personal Finance, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2009-03-15

Report: Tech layoffs skyrocket in 2008; not looking much better for '09

When the economy started to crumble for the housing, automotive and banking industries last year, there's was some optimism that Silicon Valley and the tech industry might be able to withstand the storm. Clearly, that was a short-lived dream. A report released today by...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Job, Layoff, Unemployment, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Silicon Valley unemployment jumps more than 50% from Dec '07

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reports: The unemployment rate in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area was 7.8 percent in December 2008, above the year-ago estimate of 5.1 percent, according to a report released Friday by the state Employment Development Department. This compares with...

Tags: Unemployment, Digital Equipment Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Amid bleak job picture IT system design, consulting shines

The U.S. economy lost 533,000 jobs in November, but computer system designers and technology consultants are holding their own. According to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job picture stinks see full report. The unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7 percent and the layoffs (AT&T,...

Tags: Business Operations, Consulting, Human Resources, Information Technology, It Operations, Job, Larry Dignan, Management, Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Unemployment, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Analyst: 'Worst economic environment in our collective lifetimes'

Analyst: 'Worst economic environment in our collective lifetimes'A few scratches?Anyone who escapes this exercise in a futile disaster with less than the full effects of a major machete attack will have to be not only skillful, but very very lucky, as well as blessed from On High.Glad i am in...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, economic environment, collective lifetime, unemployment, inflation, environment

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Will the economic downturn have a negative effect on open source?

OK, time for a question. Let's take it as given that the economy is choppy. Translating this to Main St, unemployment is at a 5 year high, prices are up and credit is harder to find. Will this have a negative effect on the "free" economy that many open source...

Tags: Open Source, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Unemployment, Economy, Web 2.0, Internet

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"

The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...

Tags: Job, Intuit Inc., Unemployment, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?

Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?will stop if...I believe that users will stop volunteering their time and knowledge if their work will cause their own job losses. No one wants to dig their own grave, unless they are not aware that it's going to be theirs.RE: Will social...

Tags: social media, unemployment

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Globalization's discontents

Globalization's discontentsOpinion is dictated by costThe last sentence in John's post pretty much says it all. With economies in third world countries heating up and the ability to market one's skills across the world becoming a reality, I am very excited about the new frontiers opening up. Also,...

Tags: globalization

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

US unemployment is at 4.7%

US unemployment level fell to 4.7% in January 2005 after staying at 5.0% for three years or so. Employment is rising but hours have been stuck at just under 33.8 a week, on average, for more than three years. And unemployment among blacks, which fell more last month than for...

Tags: unemployment, three-year

Blog posts 2006-02-04

UK unemployment hits 30-year-low

The total number of people unemployment fell by 13,400 from the previous month to 892,100, the first time it has slipped below the 900,000 level since September 1975, the National Statistics office said. The fall was greater than analysts' expectations of a decline of 5,000, and was the largest since...

Tags: unemployment

Blog posts 2004-02-11

Additional Resources

Carbon Wars in the U.S. Senate

Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateWhy is this on ZDNet?I mean, don't you guys have your own websites to post this BS?RE: Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateThe Cap and SCAM system is the biggest load of horse manure I have ever witnessed. I can't even believe people were...

Tags: Construction, Personal finance, window, U.S. Senate, tax credit, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-27

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc power

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc powerI love it when senatorsact as innocent bystanders to the problems they create.Total Socialist Control.......Socialist Government is going to take over Healthcare, GM, Chrysler, Energy, Taxing you for everything.Yet destroy the entire economic infrastructure knowing it will cause massive unemployment and continue to print fake money by...

Tags: Socialist Government, coal, ash, socialist, coal ash

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Mac prices: Bargains to some, still too high for others

Mac prices: Bargains to some, still too high for othersPrices went back to normalIt looks to me that apple just reset their prices to what they were a little over a year ago... aka, still too pricy... they may be a hundred dollars cheaper here or there, but the 17"...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, OS X., PC, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Less oil, less debt...so what's our next addiction?

Less oil, less debt...so what's our next addiction?Need more stories about the eco-wave...People have no idea what the impact of the eco movement is having on energy and resources. People will get rid of cars and gut their houses to become 'green' causing mountains of waste and consuming additional...

Tags: Al Gore, Barak Obama

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Lunch in your cubicle and the ENVIRONMENT

Lunch in your cubicle and the ENVIRONMENTEveryone duck......The sky is falling. Vending machines have taken over the earth as they are the coming of the new scientologists. Are you sure they are just new standards? Could be like telling everyone they are getting a tax cut and...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Food & Beverage, Spyware, cubicle, tax, environment

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Bad time to be accused of H-1B visa fraud

Bad time to be accused of H-1B visa fraudYou are rightThe level of h-1b should be tied to the unemployment rate.When it crosses a threshold there should be no more application approved.Also the burden should be on the fraudsters to prove there were no Americans able to do the jobs.H1-b...

Tags: H-1B visa, H-1B, H-1B visa fraud, free trade

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Recession and employment: where does the student stand?

Recession and employment: where does the student stand?Obama is going to socialize everythingWho needs an education, Obama is going to give you free_heatlh_care. Also, he is going to spread the wealth around so we do not have to work. He is going to tax everyone in the Middle class and...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, welfare, education, tax break, real welfare, Obama, Middle-Class, recession

Discussion threads 2009-05-22