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When you’re a parent, flexibility is important. Children have needs, emergencies come up and kids seem to always have an appointment for one reason or another. If your work schedule is not flexible enough, it can cause a problem which might result in the lost of your job. Even if your family […]
HartfordBusiness.com:
Putting their best face forward, an increasing number of job candidates are applying for jobs by e-mailing prospective employers a video resume.
It’s a trend that is gaining in popularity. A year ago, YouTube counted about 1,700 resumes; it now counts nearly 29,000.
A Rocky Hill startup wants to jump on the video resume bandwagon and help […]
Fortune Small Business:
Small businesses drove much of the employment growth in July, according to a report released Wednesday by payroll manager Automatic Data Processing. Firms with fewer than 50 workers added 50,000 new non-farm jobs to the private sector this month, which offset the 41,000 jobs dropped at medium and large companies.
ADP partnered with research […]
seattlepi.com:
The summer is upon us, and with the summer comes summer employees! Though reports show that summer hiring is certainly in a lull this year (along with the rest of the economy) many small businesses rely on summer employment, from restaurants to landscapers.
So, if you’re still dreading that summer hiring process, dread it no more. […]
Entrepreneur:
The overall economic outlook may be grim, but according to a new report, small business is providing a much-needed employment boost.
The ADP National Employment Report highlights the 55,000 new jobs created in March by companies with less than 50 employees. Compare that statistic to February, when only 16,000 new jobs were reportedly created by small […]
The Wall Street Journal:
As the softening economy begins to push more people into part-time jobs in place of full-time work, the part-time world is getting tougher.
Take Linda Barry of Pittsburgh, a 57-year-old gas-station cashier who typically works 40 hours a week. Her employer classifies her as part-time and gives her no health benefits because she […]
BusinessWeek:
Like lava flowing from a volcano, creative destruction—the economic notion that old companies and industries have to be wiped out before new ones can be born, first popularized by economist Joseph Schumpeter—is scary but beautiful.
In the New Economy of the late 1990s, this phenomenon turned the U.S. into an amazing job-generating machine, because the rapid […]
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