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I’ve been in a bit of a panic lately. I’m only a month away from quitting my job and losing my full-time income. But while scrambling frantically to replace my full-time income, I came across this great post on Live Your Legend that’s on how to quit your job. To summarize the whole post, the takeaway: [...]

Yesterday, I received a request from a publisher to review my bio and “correct or update as required.” The bio they had was from 2008. A lot has happened since then. And I giggled a little bit out loud as I made some updates that I was particularly proud of, including contributing [...]

For many college students, this month and the next mark a momentous occasion: Graduation. Congratulations! You’ve studied hard, passed your exams, and have turned in the final papers of your undergraduate career. While you’re reveling in the hard-earned celebration surrounding you, make sure to keep a keen eye on your job search efforts because the [...]

Teenagers looking for summer work will have a better chance of finding it, as an improving job market helps ease competition for low-skilled, low-paying jobs, according to outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas.The employment environment for high-schoolers and other young folk has made a dramatic recovery since falling to record lows in 2010, when the [...]

If you think back to your childhood, you may remember a parent telling you that watching TV was a one-way ticket to the land of the couch potatoes. In your parents’ eyes, watching cartoons was always second to things like going outside to play, doing your homework, or—worse—doing your chores. Unfortunately, mom and dad didn’t [...]

Mental Health MattersJob seekers’ mental health tends to improve nearly three months into unemployment—after the initial shock of the pink slip, but before the rejection letters start piling up. According to a new study led by Connie Wanberg, a University of Minnesota professor of organizational and work behavior, the average laid-off worker experiences a gradual [...]

The rumor mill continues to turn when it comes to Yahoo (YHOO). It is in the midst of a company rebuilding with CEO Scott Thompson at the helm and is about to release its first quarter profits. These numbers are not expected to be good with Thompson announcing lay offs of over 2,000 employees. More [...]

By April Hunt The Atlanta Journal-Constitution What began as a battle over what should air on DeKalb County’s government access channel could on Tuesday turn into a new $75,000 job. Commissioners have complained for months that their committee meetings haven’t been shown on DeKalb County Television, known as DCTV, noting at one point that CEO [...]

Positive financial news has been scarce lately and it seems it may only be getting worse for some of Wall Street‘s top bankers over the next few weeks. Wall Street sign on Wall Street (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Economic doom and gloom is sapping Wall Street investment bank activity and as a result the biggest [...]

I am reading Dave Ramsey’s book EntreLeadership and in the book he discusses the topic of whether or not someone who is looking to earn additional income should get a part time job or start a part time business. The answer really depends on the urgency of the need for income. If you need income [...]

Apr 202012 Searching for a job can be either an easy task or a daunting one, depending on one’s circumstances. If you’re in a high demand field, have had tremendous success, and carry a vast network – it might be fairy easy. If you’re unemployed, in an area with few jobs, and have other obstacles [...]

There’s lots of good personal finance advice floating around in cyberspace.  Here are 10 of the most helpful, interesting, or otherwise worth-your-time-to-read articles I came across over the past week. The Upside to Not Saving for Your Child’s College Education (MSNBC).  A new study finds that students who pay for at least a portion of [...]

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The job market looks a little tough right now. If you want to find employment after you graduate from university, you need to stand out. This means that you need to showcase your value — and you might even [...]

Advanced job hunting device. If you’re looking for a job, you’ve no doubt tried the big name job search sites like Monster.com, Indeed.com, CareerBuilder.com, LinkUp.com, and SimplyHired.com. Those are all great places to start your search. But there are some other, more unique, possibly more targeted job search sites that you might want to try: [...]

I’ve had my fair share of job hunting escapades and know the frustration that goes along with the search. You know what your skills are, but if you are not effectively communicating those skills through a resume, you could find yourself out of luck and out of a potentially good job. For a brief period [...]

Every product, service, and working person has a job to do. When customers have a job, they “hire” products and services to get it done—be it to fight infection, make the dishes sparkle, or paint the house. Employers have a job to get done too. They break big jobs into component jobs and they [...]

By LAURA KUSISTO Howard Lutnick, the head of Cantor Fitzgerald, got off to a bumpy start with the company’s acquisition last October of Newmark Knight Frank, one of oldest brokerage firms in New York’s rough-and-tumble commercial real-estate industry. But the challenge he has faced with Newmark is tiny compared with the task he has just [...]

By Ruth Mantell, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Your co-workers are judging you. Beneath a veneer of professional collegiality, they’re taking note of the mess on your desk, how loudly you chew, even your word choices. [...]

Findings of the Ordre des CRHA’s Quebec employment outlook survey for the second quarter of 2012 MONTREAL, April 20, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – After a difficult start to the year, HR professionals expect to see the job market pick up in the second quarter of 2012. That’s the main finding of the latest Flash-Emploi CRHA [...]

CNBC 04/16/12 – 10:30 AM EDT By Cindy Perman, CNBC.com Staff Writer NEW YORK (CNBC) –Job growth hasn’t been as robust as many were hoping for (I’m looking at you, March jobs report) and projections are that it will take at least until 2014 to regain the millions of jobs lost during the recession — [...]

Sheffield Lake By John Edwards Jon Wiblin is back on the job with a new knee and a great sense of appreciation of the fact that he’s able to do the job, or even walk. It’s been a long, hard road back to work for Sheffield Lake building inspector Jon Wiblin. The city’s building inspector [...]

The Canadian Press – ONLINE EDITION By: The Associated Press Posted: 8:23 PM | Comments: (including replies) | Last Modified: 8:32 PM BRISBANE, New Zealand – Queensland Reds rugby coach Ewen McKenzie says the announcement of Richard Graham as his successor is not linked to his prospect of becoming Wallabies coach next year. The Reds [...]

Going outside in Labrador these days, walking the countryside or driving the roads, has become a big wet sloppy pain. Everywhere else in Canada — indeed, everywhere else in the northern hemisphere — it looks like spring arrived weeks ago after a mild winter and what snow there was is now only a fading memory. [...]

The L.A. Kings, TSN’s Bob McKenzie and Washington Redskins receiver Jabar Gaffney, come on down! You are the latest contestants in this week’s game of Twitter Fallout, where the price of the wrong 140-character missive is usually quite high, and potentially career limiting. Twitter has become a mainline into the soap opera of sports, all [...]

U.S. retail sales rose 0.8 per cent last month, the Commerce Department said Monday. That’s below February’s 1 per cent increase but above January’s pace. Some of the increase went to pay higher gas prices. Still, steeper gas hasn’t deterred Americans from spending more on other goods. Consumers spent more on building materials, autos, electronics, [...]

It started like any other day, my client John said goodbye to his wife and kids as he left the house for his production line job. When he arrived at work, his boss sat him down and explained that work was slow and the company was laying him off. His first thought was that his [...]

PASADENA, Calif. – Political satirist and comedian Armando Giovanni Iannucci was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and officially declares himself as Scottish, so he knows a thing or two about irony. Iannucci studied at Oxford University, and was hard at work on a graduate PhD study on 17th-century English poet John Milton — famously known for [...]

The personal reference for a job is a key part of the hiring process, and more than once, when I have been involved in hiring someone, we have checked the persons references, only to find out that the reference: Doesn’t know the person used them as a reference, and thus doesn’t really have much to [...]

MANMOHAN SINGH, India’s prime minister, cut a lonely figure on the evening of April 14th. Surrounded by some of his closest friends, intellectual companions, cabinet ministers and political colleagues he sat in a brightly lit seminar room, supposedly to enjoy a “festschrift”, a celebration of his work. Instead it felt like an ambush. The event, [...]

This is a guest post by Nisa Chitakasem, co-author of the book, How to Get the Job You Want. She blogs at Career Blog. Getty Images Even people who are relatively happy at work go through periods when they hate their jobs—for days, weeks or even months at a time. Just read between the [...]

If you’ve been out of work for several months and aren’t getting any interviews, or you’re going on interviews but not getting any offers, maybe it’s time to adjust your approach to job hunting. There’s no particular length of time after which the alarm bells should sound, but the general rule is, if you’ve sent [...]

[10 min 40 sec]Download Richard Drew/AP April 14, 2012 Jim Bouton is a former All-Star pitcher for the New York Yankees. His classic baseball memoir Ball Four, which was first published in 1970, is just out as an e-book. Bouton famously wrote about shenanigans in baseball, which have arguably gotten worse since then. But compared [...]

Posted on April 10, 2012 in job   Most of us use some form of social media every day. And if you’re anything like me, you’re on all the time. But how many of us are utilizing the power of these social media platforms to advance our careers? While many job hunting tips talk about [...]

Those looking for jobs should turn to their smart phones as a new mobile app has been launched by ACareerJob. The venture is a subsidiary of Theonera Inc., a recruitment, assessment and outplacement firm based in St. Agatha.The app is a comprehensive mobile employment program designed to ensure both the job seeker and a potential [...]

Things are looking up for job seekers. According to the Department of Labor, December 2011 marked a three-year high for job postings, and while the numbers dipped slightly in January, they were again on the rise as of February, the latest month for which data is available. Just because employers are hiring doesn’t mean you’re [...]

CareersTom Van Riper, 07.29.08, 6:00 PM ET Can’t throw a 95-mile an hour fastball or dunk over a 7-foot center, but want to work in sports? There’s still hope. Here’s a look at 10 jobs to get you in the door. Want to work in professional sports? Get in line. Larger staffs these days mean [...]

WASHINGTON . An off-hand comment that mother-offive Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, had “never worked a day in her life” sparked a major political crisis for the Democrat party Thursday. After weeks of hammering the Republicans for launching a so-called “war on women,” senior Democrats – including President Barack Obama [...]

The chairman of Air Canada Pilots Association is urging members to report for work on Friday and ignore “a small group” of pilots who want colleagues to call in sick to show dissatisfaction with management. Captain Jean-Marc Bélanger said Thursday that union leaders and airline managers strongly disagree with the tactics of the group. More [...]

Apologies, self-recrimination and promises for a better future dominated general manager Jay Feaster’s eulogy for the 2011-12 edition of the Calgary Flames. Understandably. After three straight seasons out of the playoffs, the fans in these parts want — no, demand — accountability and answers. But amid the extensive analysis of the negative, Feaster took time [...]

It doesn’t matter if you are a doctor or a doughnut-maker. When you know how to quit your job professionally, you reap huge rewards. Of course there are the obvious payoffs in not burning bridges and keeping your network and reputation intact. But that’s not even half of it. The greatest payoff is the self-respect you [...]

After countless hours of scouring through job listings, filling out application forms, and mailing out cover letters and resumes, you finally get the call: You have a job interview. The hard part is over, right? Not quite. Have you ever felt that you had a great interview but still didn’t get the job? Just because [...]

Joanna Smith Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA—The Conservative government is telling more than 7,000 public servants — including up to 100 food inspectors — this week their jobs are on the line as part of billions in spending cuts in the federal budget. “The government is rushing these cuts through without telling Canadians what they will mean [...]

Joanna Smith Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA—The union representing Canada Border Services Agency employees has warned that major job cuts will have an apocalyptic impact on national security but the Conservative government claims that everything is going to be just fine. “More child pornography entering the country, more weapons, illegal drugs, will pass through our borders, not [...]

By DANIEL BARBARISI One goal drove Eduardo Nunez when he arrived at the track at 7:30 a.m. over the winter to run alongside Robinson Cano to begin 11 hours of daily workouts: He wants to be the man who succeeds Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter, left, celebrates with Eduardo Nunez, the man who wants to be [...]

By David Roth On Tuesday, two high-profile, highly galvanizing coaches apologized for doing dumb things. In Miami, Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen offered a passionate public apology before the assembled media and a vocal group calling for his firing. After he was fired as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, Bobby Petrino issued [...]

JOYCE BANDA, Malawi’s former vice-president, surely never imagined that she would make it to the top of her impoverished southern African country of 16m inhabitants, or that it would happen so soon. Expelled from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party in 2010 following her condemnation of President Bingu wa Mutharika’s adoption of his brother, Peter, as his [...]

New York remains on the fence on whether or not to allow high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, but companies that use the controversial technique known as fracking are knocking on the state’s door.  Oil, natural gas and industry service companies descended on Binghamton Wednesday, just outside the Pennsylvania border, for the state’s first shale gas job [...]

The question I’m attending a job fair and I want to know how I can best prepare myself, what I need to bring (résumés, business cards, etc.) and what I can expect. How do job fairs work and what are my chances of gaining employment from one of them? The answer Job fairs are hiring [...]

By: Mom-E As a parent you only want what’s best for your children.  In today’s economy, it is imperative to have a college degree, it is supposed to give you that extra edge in the work force.  Along the four year trail, I like to call the college years; I would do anything to have [...]

I am writing this post before the “I’m quitting” post goes live. I will update this post with any questions that were asked in that post, but right now, this is where I stand. If someone quit their job without having another one lined up, I will freak out for them. That is how I [...]

It’s a tough job market out there right now, but you don’t need me to tell you that. Finding work is especially challenging for young people who are just starting their careers, as well as for those who are older and trying to move into a new career. You can feel as though you’re caught [...]

In a nod to fellow freelance writer Lori Widmer’s “This Job Not That Job” series on her blog, I’ve got to just shake my head at this freelance writing job post that was in my inbox this morning. It’s a post for an editorial position at a magazine. It was in the ACES (American Copy [...]

    It was a long day, and one full of twists and turns for New Mexico men’s basketball associate head coach Craig Neal. But late on Tuesday night, Neal told the Journal he did not get the head coaching job at Colorado State. “I went through the process, and I was excited about the [...]

Help Wanted: Pilot project to bring in foreign workers to fill job vacancies in Northeast Trent Ernst, Editor It is not a new problem in the north. With so many high-paying jobs in the oil and gas and energy production sectors, companies like retail and restaurants have a hard time attracting employees with minimum wage [...]

Tanya Talaga and Rob Ferguson Queen’s Park Bureau The NDP’s final demands for supporting the Ontario budget — and avoiding a spring election — are being dubbed a “spending spree” by Premier Dalton McGuinty’s minority Liberal government. New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath’s latest proposals Tuesday include a $250 million tax credit for companies creating new [...]

A remarkable trend is emerging in the U.S. job market–one that will greatly impact the workplace of tomorrow. Women are becoming the nation’s job-creation engine, starting small businesses and stimulating new jobs at a rate that outdistances their male counterparts and disproportionately exceeds their current contribution to U.S. employment. A newly published report by The [...]

With nothing major on the economic front, market action today will likely reflect the loss of momentum following Friday’s jobs surprise. But the overall tone should be a lot less negative than what we encountered on Monday as market participants look ahead to the start of the first quarter reporting season with Alcoa’s ( AA [...]

Philip van Doorn 04/09/12 – 04:23 PM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Regions Financial (RF) was the loser among the largest U.S. financial names on Monday, with shares sliding over 3% to close at $6.21 The broad indexes saw 1% declines, following the U.S. Labor Department’s report on Friday that nonfarm payrolls increased by 120,000 [...]

Last week, I wrote about the five things you should think about during the Lenten break. Among those five things, I was specially curious on what others thought about the last question. That’s the one where I asked if you would be willing to accept an emotionally demanding and time-consuming job which will pay you [...]

Reader’s Question: I have been employed (private sector) by the same private employer for many years and I applied for a position at a university (public). The interview was all day and by the entire department (30 or so employees). It was an interrogation! I understand that the university wanted everyone to feel part of [...]

Phil Kessel’s job is probably safe, but a number of his Leafs teammates could be changing teams in the off-season. (STAN BEHAL/Toronto Sun) Report an error About all that’s certain regarding the Maple Leafs’ roster is that we know it will be different in September when training camp starts. No teams, whether they’ve won [...]

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market faces an uphill struggle for gains this week after five straight weeks of losses, as traders focus on data showing the U.S. job market stalled last month and the start of the U.S. reporting season for first-quarter earnings. The U.S. Labour Department reported Friday while markets were closed for [...]

Canada’s government town is holding its breath. The private and public sectors of Ottawa-Gatineau are united in a collective sense of unease as they wait to see whether billions in budget cuts will deliver economic pain the region has largely avoided. While politicians on Parliament Hill spent the last three years obsessing over the recession, [...]

By Quentin Fottrell Store sales are up. The job market is improving. Oddly, analysts say, retailers aren’t hiring. Jobs growth slowed significantly in March, according to the latest data released by the Labor Department Friday. Jobs excluding agriculture grew by 120,000 last month — half the growth in February — the first time since November [...]

[10 min 57 sec]Download Rachel Dratch April 7, 2012 Rachel Dratch was one of the stars of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006. She was hilarious, and then she left the show. What happened then? Well, she got so tired of answering that question she wrote a whole book about it, called Girl Walks [...]

Uneasy rider: Bobby Petrino speaks after the crash but before the confession. (AP photo) Bobby Petrino has been placed on administrative leave. Ordinarily this is a prelude to getting fired, but Bobby Petrino coaches football in the SEC. And we’re about to see if Arkansas places a higher premium on winning football games — which [...]

Blue Jays pitcher Luis Perez, shown during a game last season, pitched four innings against the Cleveland Indians on Thursday and likely will get the day off today when the teams meet again at Progressive Field (Fred Thornhill/Reuters files) Report an error CLEVELAND -  In the loud and celebratory Blue Jays clubhouse on Thursday, all had [...]

Bloomberg The drop in the unemployment rate, to the lowest level since January 2009, reflected a drop in the labour force. By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON – Payrolls rose far less than expected in March, keeping the door open for further monetary policy support from the Federal Reserve, even as the unemployment rate fell to a [...]

Bloomberg The drop in the unemployment rate, to the lowest level since January 2009, reflected a drop in the labour force. By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON – Payrolls rose far less than expected in March, keeping the door open for further monetary policy support from the Federal Reserve, even as the unemployment rate fell to a [...]

By Dennis Nishi Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s latest pop doc, “Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope,” follows several fans, two aspiring illustrators, a comic book shop owner and a costume maker through a frantic San Diego Comic-Con International weekend in 2010. To make the film, Spurlock partnered with filmmaker Joss Whedon (“The Avengers”), film critic [...]

By NEIL SHAH And CAROL E. LEE U.S. employers throttled back hiring last month, undermining views that the recovery was gaining momentum but stirring investors’ hopes of further steps by the Federal Reserve to spur the economy. The government’s main snapshot of the labor market showed employers added 120,000 jobs in March, half the upwardly [...]

In reading Sarah Needleman’s blog post Does Your Job Keep You Up at Night? in the Wall Street Journal online, I had to ask the opposite. What does that mean exactly? Simply take the converse: if work stress might keep you up in the night, do you find your work enticing enough [...]

NEW YORK (MainStreet) — It might be fun sitting on a beach with a good book in your hands and a paper umbrella in your drink, but travel experiences can also boost your resume.There’s a reason most colleges offer study-abroad programs. MainStreet talked with several travel and business experts who told us about the ways [...]

Financial Post Staff  Apr 5, 2012 – 8:33 AM ET | Last Updated: Apr 5, 2012 4:04 PM ET Reuters Canada’s economy gained a blockbuster 82,000 jobs in March, about eight times economists’ expectations, and the jobless rate edged down to 7.2%. Number of jobs economists expected to be added in March: 10,500Actual number of [...]

John Morrissy  Apr 5, 2012 – 5:46 PM ET | Last Updated: Apr 5, 2012 5:59 PM ET REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton A resurgent Ontario and Quebec combined to create 82,500 jobs in March, even higher than the national net total of 82,300, which was brought lower by job losses in Atlantic Canada, according to Statistics Canada. [...]

Do You Have What it Takes to Fill the Job Void? 0 I recently read an interesting post on Yahoo! Finance about small businesses that are ready to hire — but can’t find anyone who wants to work. It reminds me of stories from last fall involving apples in Washington rotting because of immigration crackdowns [...]

I first started reading personal finance blogs back in 2006-2007 when my wife and I were just beginning to get serious about our finances. I was stumbled onto the personal finance blogosphere when I was investigating a question about retirement accounts, and after reading some blogs for a few weeks, I was struck with just [...]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Job seekers attend a career fair in New York City. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the quick drop in unemployment might have been a reversal of overzealous cutbacks during the financial crisis. April 6, 2012 The monthly employment report Friday could help answer a key question about the economy: Will the [...]

The provincial government has consolidated and centralized its job search help services in Kelowna.Up to March 31, there were seven contractors at various locations offering employment assistance programs for regular job searchers as well as niches such as aboriginal, young, older, trades, disabled or multiple-barrier job seekers.Now, there is one contractor – Kelowna-based Maximus Employment [...]

It was a tense day for the civil service Wednesday as the axe began to fall on jobs following last week’s federal budget. Everything from commerce to culture was affected as departments began to roll out cost-cutting plans mandated by the Conservative government’s first real majority budget. The Opposition decried the cuts as evidence of [...]

The St. Patrick’s Day riot has left many Fanshawe students and alumni ashamed and embarrassed about the actions of a small number of people from the Fanshawe community. Many are worried about how Fanshawe is being portrayed in the media, and some are concerned that this negative attention will have serious consequences on their job [...]

Federal defence cuts will affect at least 62 workers in Nova Scotia, a union spokesman says. Terry Kiley, the regional vice-president with the Union of National Defence Employees, confirmed on Wednesday that 62 of his members will receive letters next week. Of the affected employees — who are civilian members of the military — 50 [...]

Canadians should expect more federal job cuts than the 19,200 the government forecast in last week’s budget, the union that represents most federal public-sector employees said Wednesday. Patty Ducharme, national executive vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says there are temporary employees whose jobs will be eliminated, and there are still cuts from [...]

These are stories Report on Business is following Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Follow Michael Babad and Globe top business news on Twitter Gas at $1.70BMO Nesbitt Burns isn’t saying that pump prices are necessarily going to $1.70 a [...]

By Duane Hicks, Staff writer Allan Katz started his new job as CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. here Monday, replacing Wayne Woods, who had held the position since 1999.Katz spent Monday and Tuesday meeting staff, as well as touring La Verendrye Hospital, Rainycrest Long-term Care, and the health centres in Emo and Rainy [...]

By Kathleen Madigan of Dow Jones Newswires NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Sometimes the best surprise is no surprise at all. Wednesday’s report from ADP showed private sector jobs rose 209,000 in March — just a bit above the median forecast of [...]

Since the onset of the Great Recession, I have received many telephone calls and emails from Wall Street professionals asking if I know of anyone hiring.  For long periods of time from 2009 through 2011, my answer was “No.” Firms were going out of business. The big names were absorbed by bank holding companies with [...]

Stocks dropped further into the red today, while 10-year Treasury bond yield fell to 2.23%.  (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Stocks plummeted today, as the major benchmarks finished down for the second straight day. Investors fretted about what would happen without fresh quantitative easing. The minutes from the latest Federal Open [...]

By Ruth Mantell, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Social-media policies aren’t just for big companies. Owners of small- and medium-sized firms should think about flexibility and nuance when crafting rules for their workers. Biography as management bible Some executives are reading Walter Isaacson’s [...]

Brittany Umar 04/03/12 – 09:38 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Popular searches Tuesday on the Internet include Starbucks(SBUX) as the coffee chain has found its first partners for its job creation fund. Google Offers and Banana Republic are officially the first businesses to join Starbucks in raising money for the fund. Google’s(GOOG) Google Offers [...]

NEW YORK — Jeanne Thompson began going grey at 23. She coloured her hair for years as she worked her way into management at a large Boston-area financial services company, then gave up the dye for good about a year ago. The earth didn’t shake, and the 44-year-old Thompson was promoted to top management the [...]

Marni Soupcoff  Apr 3, 2012 – 8:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Apr 2, 2012 5:42 PM ET How can Canada ensure that the new immigrants it accepts will be self-motivated individuals who are attractive to Canadian employers? The latest idea from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who on Friday elaborated on the federal government’s plans [...]

As Ed Bailey approached 55, he started dreaming about retiring a little early and going out on his own. After 30 years at a desk – first with the provincial government in collections and then, after being privatized, for HP Advanced Solutions Inc., a Victoria-based information and technology outsourcing company – he wanted something different [...]

By Martin C. Barry | Mon, 03/26/2012 – 16:32 Got a taste for things medieval? You could have applied for one of the many animators’ jobs available at a fantasy-themed kids’ summer camp. Companies and organizations from all over Laval had the opportunity on March 21 to meet thousands of students looking for work this [...]

My work day began every morning at 8:57 on the dot. Not 8:55am, not 9am. My first task was to meticulously go through my email inbox, sorting through the dozens of viewer emails I’d received overnight before I felt ready to accomplish anything. I always took my lucky purple pen into the morning news gathering [...]

With too many people looking for too few jobs, employers are being very selective and demanding more than ever from job candidates. Marketing yourself with a résumé that simply explains the things you’ve done in previous positions is not enough. Employers want to understand your ability to add value through results and your potential contribution [...]

Many current economic and policy questions share a common theme: Jobs! Employment is a crucial indicator of the current economic situation, but future consumer spending also depends on jobs growth. Corporate profits and stock prices are similarly linked. And finally, we can depend on politicians to keep the issue in focus, especially in an election [...]

Do you put the salary for the job in your job postings, either your online job postings or in other venues? This debate about putting salary in job postings becomes more important as job applicants are willing to settle just to have a job. This could cause retention chaos as jobs become more available or [...]

VILLE ST-LAURENT, QC, April 2, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – One of two job fairs for ex-employees of Aveos is taking place today in St-Laurent.  Organized with the collaboration of several recruiting agencies, today’s job fair will be followed by a second event with prospective employers including several from the aerospace industry. The initiative is championed [...]

By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Picture this: Job creation is on the upswing, consumers are spending freely and executives are more confident about their business. Things are looking up. Sounds like the state of the U.S. economy right [...]