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Rhode Island employment news
State offers free online job training, education
The state is providing free online job training and remedial education courses through its netWORKri career centers, which are run by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training.
R.I. gets federal grant to help unemployed
The $98,193 grant will be used to help put unemployed workers in apprenticeship programs.
R.I.’s jobless rate now tied for third in nation
We’re number three. Rhode Island’s unemployment rate of 12.1 percent for May puts the state in a tie for the third highest in the country. Highest is Michigan, at 14.1 percent, followed by Oregon at 12.4 percent, then Rhode Island and South Carolina, both at 12.1 percent. The national unemployment rate for May was 9.4 percent.
Workers see the upside in downside
Some laid-off workers are pursuing long-delayed goals: opening their own businesses or finding more spiritually fulfilling work.
National employment news
Investors' focus shifts to 2Q earnings reports
NEW YORK -- Investors, whose optimism was recently shaken by surprisingly weak economic data, are now hoping companies can provide some clues about a recovery....
Harvard pres.: School has tough choices in decline
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Drew Gilpin Faust started as Harvard's president when the university's prosperity seemed limitless. With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in student financial aid....
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.
