For over a year, the recession wreaked havoc on the job market.” If you were of working age in America, you either couldn’t find a job, got laid off, or if you were lucky enough to have a job…you knew that luck could run out any day.’ The fear of unemployment caused countless employees to cling to their jobs and hang on for dear life, whether they liked their position or not.’
Last week, we saw the Department of Labor reveal the worst unemployment statistics the U.S. has faced since 1983, with a total of 15.7 million Americans officially out of work and looking. The new national average of 10.2% is an important psychological threshold — but what’s even more shocking to think about is that it is an average. Many locations and demographics are experiencing much scarier numbers. Who is most and least affected by this plague of joblessness? What is the demographic makeup of the unemployment line?
How many of you really think carefully about how an advertisement will sell most effectively and therefore attract targeted candidates? How many or your advertisements have tired stock phrases such as ‘our client’ and ‘the successful candidate’? How many or you see advertising as a chore rather than a tool to increase your chances of earning more revenue?
How To Create More Jobs America: “
My recent survey produced a variety of ideas, but most of them had these common elements: replace the Internal Revenue Code with a simpler model, encourage businesses to increase employment, and insist upon tort reform everywhere.
It also brought two disturbing realities into focus: We are painfully apathetic (less than [...]
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