OPINION: Where do you draw the line When does a publicity stunt in the name of entertainment cross over into a tacky, potentially offensive, classless act of ticket sales over tact Well for me, that line lies somewhere a long way before this line: a photo of an “unemployment queue” outside a job centre featuring Australia’s most recent former prime minister apparently waiting her turn, resume in hand, to sign up.
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Facebook Launches A Job Search Tool
Just about everyone is using Facebook for personal networking, but you can use it for professional networking, as well. With lots of job search applications to choose from, Facebook is becoming more than a social networking site. These Facebook applications can all be used as part of your job search. Facebook launched a new job […]
Unpaid Adult Internships on Rise, Posing Legal Questions
When you hear the word intern, you probably don’t think of people like Kristina Shands. For starters, she’s 38
Nation: ‘Every Negro Who Discharges His Duty Faithfully Is Making a Real Contribution”
AS 19,300,000 U.S. Negroes seek equal employment rights, they are often met by an endlessly infuriating question: Are they really equal to whites in their abilities, or are they disqualified by some anthropological defect?
Employee Diversity Training Doesn’t Work
Some decades ago, the powers that be declared that employee diversity was a good thing, as desirable as double-digit profit margins.
Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws
The government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation’s anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is starting to reemerge: child labor. In the first part of the 20th century, there was a concerted effort to end the scourge of children working in factories and textile mills
Obama Government Rule Cracks Down on For-Profit Colleges
After months of political wrangling, the U.S. Department of Education finalized on Thursday its highly contentious “gainful employment” rule, a crucial element of the Obama Administration’s crackdown on the rapidly growing for-profit career-college industry.
A Flight Plan for the American Economy
The good news is that the American economy is back to its precrisis size. The U.S
Assault on Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is rooted in an uncomfortable reality: that to remedy the effects of past discrimination against blacks and women it is sometimes necessary to discriminate against white men. The Government shied from stating the proposition so boldly, but beginning with the Nixon Administration it put the principle into practice
Where the Jobs Are
North Dakota has the fastest-growing employment market. But Texas is the jobs leader–adding them four times as fast as any other state