When the newest unemployment report was released the national average had actually dropped by two-tenths of a percent. At least it’s progress, but recent college graduates were one group of people that was not excited. The unemployment rate amongst age 20-24 college graduates was up to 10.6%–the highest it has been since 1983.
Today’s job market is nearly filled to the brim with college graduates, and this is a much different picture than the job market 35-40 years ago. In 1973 only about 47% of high school graduates were going on to college for higher education. In October 2008 about 70% of high school grads aspired to get [...]
Losing a job is always a hard experience. If you don’t see it coming it can be especially testing, and you risk running the entire gamut of negative emotions. It’s important to keep your emotions in check when losing a job because it can have an effect on how you kick off your search for [...]
As the global economy is shrinking, unemployment isn’t just an issue in the United States. Europe, too, is seeing unemployment rates that are genuinely horrifying. What’s most disconcerting about this is that, just as in the US, the unemployment rate is actually higher than the “official” statistic. Until the end of the 1960′s, unemployment in [...]
With the economy in a rut currently, employers often are reluctant to add new employees to their payrolls. Many companies are in situations in which they have too much work for their workers, but not so much to warrant hiring new ones. In better economic times, companies may have hired temporary paid workers, but under [...]
