Indexes: Business conditions improve in Missouri, worsen in Kansas
The Missouri Business Conditions Index increased to 49.7 in June ? its highest level since September ? up from 47.3 in May and 46.5 in June 2008, Creighton University said Wednesday.
June was the ninth-straight month for which the index was below the
Job seekers won't get lost in transition: minister
NO JOB seeker will fall through the cracks while moving to new job search agencies in the Federal Government's overhaul of the system, Employment Participation Minister Mark Arbib has declared.
A month into his new role overseeing one of the Government'
Location-based job search tool launches
IT employers could benefit from a new location-based job search site launched
today by online mapping firm
Zubed
Geospatial and endorsed by the Conservative Party.
Zubed Maps uses semantic search technology and artificial intelligence to
crawl the web
A Simple Guide to Surviving Unemployment
You just lost your job; now what?
The instinctive path is to hit the newspapers and job boards, flooding resumes out to potential employers who might give you a chance. You might follow that activity by contacting recruiting firms to enlist them in
Recruiting Patterns to Hold Steady in Q3, According to Quarterly Job Forecast From CareerBuilder and USA TODAY
CHICAGO, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Most employers expect their staff levels to remain the same as recruiting patterns hold steady and job losses trend downward, according to CareerBuilder and USA TODAY's Q3 2009 Job Forecast. The survey was conducted by
Mashable?s Weekly Guide to Jobs in Social Media & Web Development
But we?d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable?s job boards are a place for socially-savvy companies to find people like you. This week and every week, Mashable features its coveted job board listings for a variety of positions in the web,
Celebrate the Fourth with a potluck picnic
Back in 1776, John Adams wrote that Independence Day should be celebrated "with Pomp and Parade, with Shows, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations." He could have added cookouts: "By the mid-1800s barbecues became synonymous with the
Whole-bean sales are up as Americans learn to grind, brew good cups of coffee
Howard Lerner and Matt Herren are proud to be bean counters, and recently, they've liked their numbers.
"Whole bean sales are definitely up," says Lerner, co-owner of Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Co., which has six coffeehouses, satellite locations in
John Farr: For Independence Day, Ten Movies That Scream America
As we head into Independence Day weekend, for those who'd like to move beyond the evergreen "Yankee Doodle Dandy", I want to suggest some classic titles scattered over the decades that each in their way evoke our country's unique character- to
