This week we received two great, totally unsolicited, job applications from people looking to work at Hourly, and it strengthened my long-standing belief that in many cases great jobs are not found but created. I know that I myself have found jobs via traditional job boards, but the ones that have proven most successful over [...]

By Angie Kamath This past weekend I had the good fortune to attend a “Career Boot Camp” sponsored by The Ladders for volunteers and trainees of a non-profit job training organization called StreetWise Partners. The panelists discussed a number of issues and I wanted to share some of the ideas that particularly resonated with me as critical for those building [...]

  Some welcome news coming out of the Labor Department this morning. Nonfarm payrolls jumped 243,000 helping to drop the unemployment rate to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent. Economists had expected the jobless rate to hold steady at 8.5 percent given pre-estimates and gloomy reports coming out of the Fed earlier this week, [...]

January is often a time of restraint.  Taking stock of excesses and trying to reign where ever we can, and no where has this been more evident over the last few years, than in the employment market. The seasonal hiring boom that starts in October is soon followed by the shedding of these jobs following [...]

As someone who is perpetually trying to connect job seekers with employers, I gotta say that one of THE most frustrating aspects of the process is dealing with all the various silos and application formats that exist. I recently read a statistic that there are currently 3.2 million unfilled jobs in the United States, not [...]