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These Jobs Are Now Hiring En Masse As a Result of COVID-19 Spreading
While many have lost their jobs, at least temporarily, due to the Coronavirus crisis, some businesses are becoming more profitable than ever before. Unfortunately, restaurants, bars, and the like have large...
How to Gracefully Handle a Job Rejection Email
Facing job rejection is a common part of the job search process. It's not easy, but how you respond to a rejection email can leave a lasting impression and potentially open doors in the future. Here's what you ...
The Risks of AI-Created Job Seekers
In today’s job market, not all applicants are real people. Some companies have started noticing a strange trend: candidates that seem perfect on paper but are actually created by artificial intelligence (AI). Imagine a company in...
Latest May Jobs Report Stuns Economists with Good News About Unemployment
Economists were bracing for another terrible monthly jobs report when the latest figures were released on Friday. The May jobs report was expected to demonstrate another month of staggering unemployme...
Offered a Job Buyout? When You Should Take the Money and Run
According to the latest jobs report, the unemployment rate is now at 13.3%, a strong indication that the economy is struggling to stay afloat. While there is a glimmer of hope for the jobs market as states begin t...
These Parts of the Economy Are Recovering the Fastest
More than 30 million adults lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each week, more than 1 million people are filing new jobless claims. However, some industries are enjoying a faster recovery than others. R...
Top-paying Remote Jobs and How to Get Them
On Thursday, January 14, the Department of Labor released updated employment numbers. Another 965,000 Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the past seven days. This may be due to the seasonal holiday jobs ending at many reta...
Despite Soaring Sales, Best Buy Cut 5,000 Jobs
During the COVID-19 pandemic's early days, millions of American workers were sent home to do their work. Tens of millions of K-12 and college students were sent home to complete their educational year online. Those people needed...
The Robotic Future of Employment
There are a whole lot of things that many people are worried about happening in the future. Some are credible threats, while others are mostly media hype. Global warming, an economic crash, running out of fossil fuels, a new Covid variant;...