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Rhode Island employment news
Jobless rate can often be far from the real number
State and federal officials use a complicated method to arrive at the figure, which often is later adjusted
Building trade braces for another bad year
Up to 70 pipefitters from Rhode Island are planning to go to Canada for a job that will last three months
Economists say R.I. not poised for swift recovery
Where Rhode Islanders work has changed dramatically in the last decade.
Economists say R.I. not poised for swift recovery
Where Rhode Islanders work has changed dramatically in the last decade,
National employment news
Two-track economy: 9.7% unemployment, $200K cars
WASHINGTON -- For the super-rich and everyone else, the economic recovery is taking place in two very different gears....
Stocks end mixed after price, jobs reports
NEW YORK -- Major stock indexes ended mixed Thursday on more evidence that the economy is regaining strength at a slow pace....
Résumés
On
a résumé, learn to sell yourself
An applicant used to be competing with about 250
résumés, now it's 1,000, says the president of a Web service
that helps job seekers.
Reinvent
yourself: Find new uses for old job skills
The key, says George Lowe, who "graduated" from Ford
in May 2000 when he took an early retirement deal, was finding new uses
for the skills he had learned as a Ford manager. "I was thinking about
what I wanted to do next well before the time came to depart Ford."
The
other you: What's on your 'invisible' résumé?
Having an up-to-date résumé is a must.
But there's another kind of résumé you might find extremely
useful: the "invisible" résumé.
To
get ahead, people will put just about anything on their résumé
David Edmondson, chief executive officer at RadioShack
for less than a year, resigned in shame recently after a newspaper revealed
he had lied on his résumé about having two college degrees
when in fact he had none.
