Using Twitter and Facebook to Find a Job
Brian Ward lost his job on a Friday afternoon. Eleven days later he had a new one. With nearly 1 in 10 people out of work and the typical job search lasting 12 weeks, how did the Cleveland-based software architect pull it off? In a phrase: online
Face the numbers with personal financial 'stress test'
The nation's 19 biggest banks recently underwent "stress tests" ordered by the government to see how they would hold up if the economy deteriorated further.
Consumers should put themselves through a similar stress test to determine if their personal
Forum of the Americas: Protectionism could kill green shoots, Zoellick says
World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned on Monday that protectionism could stifle economic recovery. According to a statement from the World Bank distributed ahead of his speech in Montreal:
"Zoellick noted that while there are signs of global
OECD says downturn has finally hit bottom
The OECD's Composite Leading Indicators point to an easing pace of deterioration in some major economies, including Canada's.
While is still too early to assess whether it is a temporary or a more durable turning point, OECD composite leading
Forum of the Americas: IMF says no recovery until 2010
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is sticking to his economic forecast that the global economy will not recover until early 2010.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn, speaking at the kickoff of the four-day International Economic Forum
Preface to Mises's Memoirs
Ludwig von Mises is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles in which he made pioneering contributions to economics, history, the philosophy of science, and social philosophy. He had a direct personal influence on many outstanding social
TheLadders.com Wins Webby Awards for Best Employment Website and Best Rich Media Advertising: Business-to-Business
NEW YORK -- (BUSINESSWIRE) --
TheLadders.com,
the world's leading online service catering exclusively to the $100k+
job market, has won Webby
Awards for Best
Employment Website and Best
Rich Media Advertising: Business-to-Business category for its
Stimulus in China: At What Cost?
Monday is the second day of the dreaded gaokao, the national college entrance exam that more than half of all Chinese kids in their age cohort will sit to determine whether or not they will go to university (just over 60% of the test takers will start
Layoffs harder for those over 55
Paul Wax looked at himself in the short cable TV news profile of his effort to find a job and came to an unsettling epiphany.
and now is setting up his own business
''I look pretty old,'' Wax, 61, recalls thinking to himself.
The three-minute spot
Using Twitter and Facebook to Find a Job
Brian Ward lost his job on a Friday afternoon. Eleven days later he had a new one. With nearly 1 in 10 people out of work and the typical job search lasting 12 weeks, how did the Cleveland-based software architect pull it off? In a phrase: online
