Analysts are estimating that a larger-than-predicted increase in seasonal hiring over 2010 is going to help temporarily stabilize the floundering job market. Nearly a half-million holiday workers were expected to be added to payrolls in the final three months of the year, according to the National Retail Federation. Those were the employees who helped retailers […]

A partly sunny outlook on the 2011 holiday shopping season has retailers leveraging social media to announce their specials in a bid to bring more consumers through their doors. Staffing specialists are also using the power of technology to hire temporary holiday employees. QR, or quick response, codes are driving job seekers to career pages […]

The discouragingly high unemployment rate makes any job search these days a daunting task. Career fairs are one of the few mechanisms that offer the slightest glimmer of hope. Prospective employers gather to fill a finite number of positions and choose the best candidates. There is one common ingredient in finalizing their employment status: a […]

For businesses, it means it’s time to buckle down for a busy three-month period that could determine whether the company ends the fiscal year in the black. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that the 2008 employment gain during the holiday season was roughly 520,000. Although it accounted for three-fourths of the average holiday season […]

Imagine you are an executive carefully examining a group of four job candidates. They are the same age, dressed in similar suits, and share nearly identical qualifications for the position. Except one is holding a sheet of paper.   That person’s name is Chance, and in a pre-emptive attempt to gain a slight advantage over […]