Do Employers Really Screen Credit Scores?
Revealing.... (via Mint.com)
The almighty credit score. It determines your interest rates, insurance premiums, and… an employer’s decision to offer you a job? Is this scary statement really true? Credit expert John Ulzheimer walks you through what employers can and cannot do when it comes to your credit.
Workers over 65 vie with teens in labor market for the first time since Truman
More from the trenches of the Great Recession (via sfgate.com)
For the first time on record, senior citizens outnumber teens in the labor force as the Great Recession accentuates trends that make it harder for young people to find jobs and more likely for older workers to delay retirement.
This historic crossover is revealed in data compiled by Bloomberg News showing that 6.6 million people over age 65 worked or looked for work in the first six months of the year, versus 5.9 million 16- to 19-
year-olds .
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See the interactive chart at Bloomberg.com >
The 8 lowest-paying jobs in America
I have a friend who is currently unemployed and is having a terrible time finding work. He's highly educated and intelligent with an MBA. And he's had to work some
The 8
- Food preparation and serving workers, including fast food (The occupation is now the fourth largest in the country with 2.7 million workers.)
- Dishwashers
- Cashiers (The job is No. 2 on the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s list of biggest occupations with a workforce of about 3.3 million, behind only retail sales people with 4.2 million.)
- Hosts and hostesses
- Amusement park attendants
- Movie theater ushers, ticket takers — Paying more for movie tickets? That money's not giving these folks bigger paychecks. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects jobs for ushers and ticket takers to jump nearly 12 percent in the next 10 years. Woo hoo!)
- Farm workers (“Job opportunities for agricultural worker occupations should be abundant because large numbers of workers leave these jobs due to their low wages and physical demands.”)
- Personal and home care aides (The job opportunities in this profession are expected to skyrocket by nearly 50 percent in the next 10 years)
Temp and contract work is the new reality of the job market
My post "Temp hiring no longer seen as a sign of recovery" talked about how temp hiring used to be an indicator that the job market was improving because a temp job was seen as a good path to a regular (meaning "real") position. Now that no longer seems to be the case. Temp jobs are now just that — temporary, meaning not "regular", you could lose your job today with no warning and no severance whatsoever.
The trend seem to be gaining traction, if this article from MSNBC.com is to be believed, "Need a job? Contract work could be new normal."
By Eve Tahmincioglu
msnbc.com contributor
May 6, 2010Stephen Luebkert was laid off in March 2009 from a
Boston-based semiconductor company. He lived for four months on his severance while he looked for anotherfull-time job and eventually ended up working again for the same firm.The difference is that now he is a contract employee. He no longer gets any of the perks of being a permanent worker, including paid vacations or sick days, health insurance or tuition assistance. And he estimates that he makes about 20 percent less — for the same job he was doing before.
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