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CAREER BITES ARCHIVES
 MAY
ISSUE
On The Front Line
Company Implants
Electronic Tags in Workers!
Financial Times
An Ohio company has embedded silicon
chips in two of it’s employees! It is the first known
case in which US workers have been tagged electronically
as a way of identifying them. CityWatcher.com, A private
video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology
as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security
video footage for government agencies and the police...
JANUARY ISSUE
On The Front Line
Know Your Pension
To Make Sure it Doesn't Disappear!
If you are like me, and many people I know, and are getting a little nervous about the health of your pension given recent events go to the KNOW YOUR PENSION web site for a check up. " Make sure the money that is owed to you will be there when you retire. Don't leave it to chance."
AUGUST
ISSUE
News from The Front Line
Job Search Engines
Time, NY
When looking for
a job it's always best to cast a very broad net. So it's
very rewarding when you find three new search engines that
do just that. Each one, which has it's own look and feel,
trawl the web for relevant job listings based on your search
parameters. When I tried them each one generated a different
set of leads, culled from a variety of different sources
including big job boards like Monster, Hotjobs and Craigs'
List....
APRIL
ISSUE
News from The Front Line
Three Little Words That Work!
By Andy Rooney
The three little words are: "Hold
On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your
phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately)
will make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming
that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when
you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone,
you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset,
which has efficiently completed it's task.
These three little words will help eliminate unwanted telephone
soliciting.
THE LETTER
OCTOBER
ISSUE
News from The Front Line
What’s the Real Unemployment
Rate?
San Francisco Chronicle
Despite what you may think, the unemployment rate is not
based on the number of people collecting unemployment benefits.
It is based on a monthly survey of 60,000 households by the
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, asking people 15 and older
a series of questions to determine their employment status.
People count as employed if they are entrepreneurs or employees,
or worked 15 hours of more without pay in a family business.
For people to qualify as unemployed, they must be actively
looking for a job or going through a temporary layoff. Those
who have stopped looking for work are not included! Also,
if you work one hour a week you are considered to be employed!
JUNE
ISSUE
News from The Front Line
The Manhole Economic Indicator
Shanghai, China; Gloucester, England
Just listen to this from the Shenzhen Daily newspaper. A spate of manhole cover
thefts in Shanghai, China has caused the deaths of at least two people who fell
into uncovered holes! Or, how about this from Gloucester, England (AP) - A gang
of thieves has stolen more than 40 manhole covers in this southwestern English
city, leaving dangerous holes in the streets, officials said. What is going
on here? A Gloucestershire Police spokeswoman said the thefts could be
due to a recent increase in the price of scrap metal.
Do we have a new economic indicator here? The MEI! Move over Consumer Price
Index!
MARCH
ISSUE
News from The Front Line
On Our Own !
From CBS MarketWatch.com
Self-employment provides
a key source of jobs for Americans 55 and older. The
number of self employed Americans 55 and up rose 12.6
percent, to about 2.3 million in 2003 from 2.1 million
in 2002, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall,
the ranks of the self-employed grew by about 3 percent,
to 9.6 million non-farm self-employed workers in November
2003 from 9.3 million in November 2002 . . .
DECEMBER
ISSUE
News from The Front Line
Top Jobs in 2004
Everyone always has an opinion about this topic but these excerpts from
SmartMoney.com make a lot of sense.
- Sales - The No. 1 job category on Monster.com is sales. "Companies
need to hire sales people as a precursor to
growth," says Monster
. . .
OCTOBER
ISSUE
News from The Front Line
- On
the positive side, the economy is beginning to show
signs of slowly emerging from the recession
- On
the negative side, jobs are still being lost
at an alarming rate, a pattern that may continue well
into the recovery
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