Chinese professional women work as nannies, maids
GUANGZHOU, China -- She majored in English and loved her job as an office worker in China's once-booming export industry. But now Xiong Xuhua is jobless and in training to be a housekeeper, a fate she is too embarrassed to tell even her husband about.
comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for January 2009
Tax, Job Search and Travel Sites See Growth as New Year Begins
Facebook Breaks into Top 10 Property Ranking for the First Time
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comScore Top 10 Gaining Properties by Percentage Change in Unique
Visitors* (U.S.)
January 2009 vs. December
Chinese professional women work as nannies, maids
She majored in English and loved her job as an office worker in China's once-booming export industry. But now Xiong Xuhua is jobless and in training to be a housekeeper, a fate she is too embarrassed to tell even her husband about.
Wearing a blue apron
Oxford braces for tax losses
OXFORD ? With so many questions unanswered about Miami University's plan to reduce staff by 200 ? most importantly, which positions are getting the ax ? the ramifications of the cuts aren't clear.
The university is Butler County's largest employer,
Temp work pays off in some fields
I've written before about how working in temporary positions is a good way to not only garner much needed experience, but also a good way to land full-time employment. This may be true now more than ever.
"In the current environment, it can be
The 20 highest-paying careers in the United States
By Anthony Balderrama, CareerBuilder.com writer
Celebrity blogs and magazines are plastered with pictures of high-profile actors, athletes and business leaders, so you might think that these occupations are your only route to wealth.
If you want to
Bingaman, Udall and Teague Urged Federal Assistance for Chino Mine Workers, and Got It
U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, and Rep. Harry Teague (NM-02), are applauding the news that the U.S. Department of Labor has determined that workers laid off from the Chino mine are eligible for federal assistance. The three released a group
Wanted: Lousy job, low pay
Emily Smith says she has applied to hundreds of jobs in her area, from a nursing assistant to gas station attendant.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Desperate for a job and willing to take almost anything with a paycheck? Take a number.
Between the increase
Service Tackles Unemployed Job Seekers' New Worst Enemy
ORANGE PARK, Fla., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Time spent looking for work has become the worst enemy of the unemployed. To combat its effects, a new service dramatically compresses job search time as much as 50%.
New data is showing that the time to find
Patrons flock to libraries as the economy struggles
The downward spiral of the economy is creating at least one upward trend: a dramatic increase in the use of public libraries.
Library directors here and all over say they are seeing large increases in the number of people using library computers to
