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More Women than Men Want to Learn New Skills Outside Their Current Position Scope

According to the BLS’ new databook on women in the labor force, women have made significant progress in the areas of educational achievement and earnings over the last 40 years. Labor force participation is significantly higher among women today than it was in the 1970s, but it seems to have peaked at 60 percent in 1999. Continue reading

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Working, Girl? The Economic Impact of Women in the Workforce

As the number of women in the workforce declines, employers can and should work to reverse the trend.

So here’s the good news: According to the BLS’ new databook on women in the labor force, women have made significant progress in the areas of educational achievement and earnings over the last 40 years. Continue reading

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Matt Ferguson, CareerBuilder CEO

April Job Numbers Show Slow Gains, but Job Market for Graduates is Improving

Today, Matt Ferguson, chief executive officer of CareerBuilder, spoke with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop” about the April employment report and the outlook for the U.S. labor market.

Payrolls climbed 115,000, the smallest gain in six months, after a revised 154,000 rise in March that was more than initially estimated. Continue reading

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September Jobs

More Jobs Than Expected Added in September

From zero to 103,000 in 30 days…

What sounds like the tag line of a lame Nicolas Cage action movie (redundant?) actually describes the change in the number of jobs created since last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which released September’s Employment Situation Report this morning. Continue reading

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For August’s Job Numbers Report, Please See July

The employment situation report for August is disturbingly similar to that of July.

Zero: It’s not just the amount of interest you have in seeing the remake of Footloose. It’s also the number by which both nonfarm payroll and the unemployment rate changed in August, as reported by the U.S. Continue reading

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July's Job Numbers: The Sky Isn't Falling

July’s Job Numbers: The Sky Isn’t Falling! (But Don’t Put Away That Chicken Little Costume Yet)

If you were betting on job numbers, and you bet that 18,000 new jobs were created last month, thinking we’d have a repeat of June, you’d be wrong. But it’s probably a bet you’d be happy to lose, because in July, we added 117,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ “The Employment Situation” summary for July 2011. Continue reading

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Jobs in America: CareerBuilder CEO Talks Job Creation, the Biggest Skill Shortage and More

On CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson discussed job expectations versus job creation; the disconnect caused by the structural mismatch between available jobs and available skills; the industry with the biggest skill shortage right now; and the area hottest in wage growth. Continue reading

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My, How Far We Haven’t Come: June’s Job Numbers

Before I go into today’s jobs numbers, can I just offer a word of advice to the economists out there?

Don’t play the lottery. Just don’t. You’re just not good at picking numbers lately. Continue reading

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May's Employment Report comes out on National Doughnut Day

May’s Job Numbers: Brought to You by National Doughnut Day

Okay, not really…But it is awfully convenient (perhaps even suspicious?) that for the second year in a row, the Labor Department released May’s employment situation report on National Doughnut Day.

I say ‘convenient’ because for the second year in a row, this dual event enables Americans to eat their disappointed feelings for free at participating locations. Continue reading

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Worrying Is Bad For Your Complexion…And Other Reasons Not to Freak Out About April’s Job Numbers

The economy added 244,000 jobs in April, marking the third straight month that job gains surpassed 200,000 and the biggest hiring spree in five years, the BLS reported today.

Despite the job gains, however, the unemployment rate mysteriously increased from 8.8 percent to 9 percent. Continue reading

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