After all of the talk about “are we” or “aren’t we” in a recession, the Wall Street Journal reports that it appears that the people who know these things really think we can honestly say we are in a recession: “The evidence is now beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Scott Anderson of Wells Fargo & […]
U.S. Jobs Data Isn't Pretty
The AP reports on the March 7th Jobs data, and it isn’t pretty: Employers Slash 63,000 Jobs in February, Most in 5 Years, Feeding Recession Fears They also report that the unemployment rate actually went down from 4.9% in January to 4.8%  in February, indicating that hundreds of thousands of people stopped bothering to look for […]
Job Change – Is it the other inevitable?
Here we thought that only death and taxes were inevitable. Looks like “change” is peering her head around that same corner, and I don’t mean the change that the politicians keep bantering about. I mean the real, honest-to-goodness, things are going to change around here kind of change that happens at work. Some are suggesting […]
Lost Your Job? What to Do Next
I’ve written about jobs predicted to have a rosy future in 2008 and offered suggestions of what to do if you think that your job is in jeopardy. But, what approach should you take if you have lost your job and you (and many, many others) are now seeking work in a flat economy? The first […]