3 Ways For Job Seekers To Gain Inside Company Information

Wall Street Journal
What kind of non-public data can help your job search, and how can you find it? There are plenty of ways job seekers can use publicly available ways to ...

In New Jersey, President Barack Obama backs business bill

Politico
By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO | 7/29/10 4:28 AM EDT President Barack Obama met with a group of small-business owners over lunch in New Jersey. ...

College students return to Ridgewood for summer jobs

NorthJersey.com
Felsenstein conducted her job search mostly independently, though she did consult her college's career center for help with her résumé. ...

Passaic County college offering health care job training

The Record

Passaic County Community College is offering health care training courses beginning Aug. 2 for the unemployed and entry-level health care workers in an attempt to fill needed positions.

Career clothing on an intern budget

Washington Post (blog)
For those entering the workforce straight out of college, dressing professionally five days a week can be daunting. Building a work wardrobe isn't cheap, ...

Unemployment rate falls across 39 states, but it's not good news

Washington Post (blog)
Businesses are holding off on hiring new workers, with private employers adding a mere 83000 jobs last month. The numbers reflected a temporary phenomenon: ...

Rutgers, workforce pioneer team on paralegal certificate program

myCentralJersy.com
NEW BRUNSWICK — In keeping with its mission to prepare America's 21st- century workforce, Rutgers University will partner with a leader in the field of ...

Five Mistakes Online Job Hunters Make

Wall Street Journal
"Everything is indexed and able to be searched," says Miriam Salpeter, an Atlanta-based job search and social media coach. "Even Facebook, which many people ...

President Obama signs six-month extension of emergency unemployment benefits

Washington Post
With unemployment at 9.5 percent, both parties agree that jobless benefits should be extended, but the legislation has been mired in an increasingly bitter ...

Tips to recharge your job search

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
This is a common job-search theme, and it probably has its roots in the notion that if you remain flexible, more jobs will be available to you. ...

Stimulating Unemployment

Wall Street Journal
In the immediate policy case, Democrats are going so far as to subsidize more unemployment. If you subsidize something, you get more of it. ...

Social networking at workplace on the rise

Sify
The percentage of employees visiting social networking sites at the workplace globally rose to 24 per cent this year from just 18 per cent in 2008, ...

NJ unemployment rate down slightly again in June

BusinessWeek
The rate dropped by 0.1 percentage point to 9.6 percent in June. But that's now slightly higher than the national rate of 9.5 percent. ...

Social Networking Ever More Critical to Job Search Success

BusinessWeek
Some employers are shifting their recruiting activity away from traditional channels, such as job boards and third-party recruiters and search firms, ...