Top Sites for Employment Trends and Statistics

→  February 6th, 2011  →  Blog employment statistics

Successful career planning requires an understanding of employment trends, including which occupations are growing and which are declining.  Several great websites offer statistics on job growth, layoffs, and hiring.  A few of the best sites for tracking employment trends and statistics: Vault.com Employment Tracker Vault’s employment tracker lists significant layoffs and hires from small and [...]

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When Your Dream Career is Dying

→  November 2nd, 2010  →  Blog interests

With changes in technology and culture come shifts in career trends.  Some of the jobs that exist today will be obsolete in a few decades, while many future jobs don’t exist yet.  Entire industries die and new ones develop.  This is all good news if you’ve identified a good career in an up-and-coming field.  But [...]

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Hiring Trends for 2010 College Graduates

→  November 18th, 2009  →  advice Blog economy employment job search recession statistics

Update: Latest hiring trends for the Class of 2010 (from MSNBC): Dim job outlook brightens for the class of 2010. Summary: 5 % increase in hiring of 2010 graduates over 2009 graduates most in-demand majors :  accounting, business administration, computer science, engineering, and math Survey shows only 40% of graduates have offers, compared to two-thirds [...]