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How to Keep Your Career on Track During COVID-19
COVID-19 has been a massive disruption in the job market and has greatly impacted the career plans of tens of millions of Americans. You do not have to let the crisis, or even job loss, derail your career progression. You can ...
4 Tips for Returning to the Office After Teleworking During COVID-19
Many American workers have been called back to the office after teleworking for months due to COVID-19. It is not always easy to go back after spending so long in a different environment. Work just feels di...
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...
Low-Wage Jobs Deterring the Labor Market
The United States of America is facing a problem now that is has never faced before in its history. Since 1776, when the nation was ratified, there has never been a point in time where unemployment is very high while labor shortages ...
September: Make or Break Economic Month
Every month is an important month for the American economy. It's a huge, multifaceted machine with countless moving parts. The economy isn't just the products and freight that ship and the businesses that remain open, but also the peo...
It might take time to find a job. However, when you find one, your life will have a positive change. For example, you will have a regular paycheck, an...
Sign a Contract before You Start Working You can protect yourself as a worker is by signing a contract before you start ...
Look Out for These 10 Red Flags in Job Interviews
The Great Resignation of 2021 has continued into 2022. People are searching for jobs that offer better pay, a hybrid or remote work location, comprehensive benefits and more vacation time. Once you start to interview for a ne...
9 Things Managers Do That Drive Good Employees to Quit
Anytime a good employee turns in his resignation is a sign that a company is in trouble. But too often managers are blaming everything but their own behavior for helping to drive good employees out the door. Not only is i...
Instacart Plans to Lay Off 2,000 Workers This Month
Grocery shopping and delivery service Instacart announced on January 22 that it is going to lay off about 2,000 of its workers. This includes 10 workers who recently joined the United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union...