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Careers and Career Information - CareerOneStop
MARSBest annotation: "CareerOneStop is a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored portal that provides career resources and workforce information. With its occupation and industry information, salary data, self-assessment tools, and career exploration assistance, this rich resource will help those exploring career opportunities to make informed choices. It also has useful information for job seekers, students, and career counselors, such as where to file unemployment insurance, locations of career centers, resume advice, and relocating options. This thorough site even has a special section devoted to military transition. Fulfilling its promise to be a one-stop shop, CareerOneStop includes links to state job banks, the online version of Occupational Outlook Handbook, and other useful resources."
Author/Publisher: CareerOneStop
Free/Fee-based: Free
Date Reviewed: 2/25/09
Job Search | one search. all jobs. Indeed
MARSBest annotation: "This site with the logo 'one search, all jobs' was created in 2004 to furnish streamlined access to employment opportunities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The homepage offers a straightforward search engine for job seekers. Visitors can search by job category, geographic location, and keywords. The site also provides a forum for individuals to discuss employment openings and links to Google maps showing job locations, as well as relevant blogs discussing the employment marketplace and trends. Unlike Monster.com, users cannot post their resumes, but links are provided to contact the recruiting organizations directly. Alerts can be set up to be delivered via e-mail."
Author/Publisher: indeed
Free/Fee-based: Free
Date Reviewed: 2/17/08
Lyrasis: Job Bank
The Lyrasis Job Bank lists positions available at libraries of all types and sizes.
News: 'Standing Still' as Associate Profs - Inside Higher Ed
"English and foreign language departments promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year -- and in some cases, depending on type of institutions, several years -- more speedily than they promote women, according to a study being released today by the Modern Language Association."
News: Staffing Up, Productivity Down - Inside Higher Ed
'The report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, "Trends in the Higher Education Labor Force:Identifying Changes in Worker Composition and Productivity," analyzes federal employment data from postsecondary institutions showing that that higher education workforce grew by about half from 1987 to 2007, or a little over a million jobs. More than 60 percent of those jobs were in instructional staff, but the vast majority of those jobs were part time.'
News: Where There's a Will... - Inside Higher Ed
"Perhaps more surprisingly, many Ph.D. candidates who were notspecializing in Shakespeare said that they were nonetheless betting on the Bard. One young woman said that although her dissertation bore only a nominal relationship to Shakespeare, her committee had advised her to "play it safe" in job interviews by spinning that connection to the best of her ability. They believed, she added, that the economic circumstances made it imperative for her to sell herself as someone who could teach Shakespeare, regardless of her personal \ninterests."
Top 10 Social Sites for Finding a Job
By Dan Schawbel. "Here at Mashable(), we’re trying hard to help you stay afloat and succeed in the current economic crisis. We’ve told you how to build the ultimate social media resume, sites to visit if you’ve been laid off, and the secrets to finding yo
Junk Analysis of Higher Ed by the NY Times | How The University Works
"Why did campus employers substitute student workers for faculty and staff labor? Because it’s cheaper in salary and benefits, and they prefer to use the money saved on salary to do different things–build business centers and stadiums, or go into venture
Job Losses Hint at Vast Remaking of U.S. Economy - NYTimes.com
"Since the recession began, the economy has eliminated a net total of roughly 4.4 million jobs, with more than half of those positions — some 2.6 million — disappearing in the last four months alone. This rapid deterioration has prompted talk that some in
Op-Ed Columnist - Even Worse for Young Workers - NYTimes.com
"A comparison of the number of people being thrown out of work in this recession with that of the severe recession of 1981-82 will indicate why. The peak unemployment rate was higher in that earlier recession than today’s 7.6 percent, largely because the
stimulus / 23 / 02 / 2009 / News / Home - Inside Higher Ed
"But much as the rhetoric surrounding the stimulus legislation has portrayed it as focusing on creating jobs related to “shovel ready” infrastructure and other projects, significant numbers of the jobs that will be either created or saved by the financial
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Brainstorm: The State of History and the History of State - Chronicle.com
"What people were talking about (apart from Obama, the recession, and Gaza) was jobs. As I noted in my last post, one of the most important functions of the AHA annual meeting is the provision of a site for job interviews. History departments, like all li
Disappearing Jobs :: Inside Higher Ed
"The number of job postings in the MLA’s Job Information List will be down 21 percent in 2008-9, the steepest annual decline in its 34-year history."
The Tightening Humanities Job Market :: Inside Higher Ed
"In the humanities, however, data are starting to come in that suggest that — even if you heard about this or that great position — there will be significantly fewer searches this year."
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