Snatching up layoffs: other companies’ losses are your gain
There’s a great scene in When Harry Met Sally when Meg Ryan’s title character is having lunch with her girlfriends Marie and Alice, and she breaks the news that she and her long-time boyfriend, Joe,...
View ArticleHoliday Sales a Bad Deal for Employers?
Nearly one-third (29 percent) of U.S. workers plan to holiday shop online during office hours this year, according to CareerBuilder.com’s latest survey of 5600 workers nationwide. The survey comes out...
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And You Thought the TV Show Was Odd…Workers Reveal Unusual Moonlighting Gigs
If you’ve ever wondered what your employees do on their off-hours…well, you may want to skip the rest of this post and just keep wondering. (That is unless you want the image of them posing nude for...
View Article“My Co-Worker is a Pimp” and Other Strange-But-True Workplace Complaints
Remember that time you thought your co-worker was a pimp? Me, neither. But anyway… In efforts to “bring a little levity to the workplace,” CareerBuilder recently surveyed 2,600 hiring managers...
View ArticleNearly Half of Employers Use Social Networking Sites to Screen Job Candidates
Wow…according to CareerBuilder’s latest survey, the number of employers using social networking sites to screen candidates has more than doubled in the last year. Out of more than 2,600 hiring...
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Room for Debate: Does Political Talk Belong Outside the Workplace?
More than a third of workers discuss politics at work, according to a new CareerBuilder survey – and the exchanges aren’t always so diplomatic. Clearly, not everyone is heeding Linus van Pelt’s...
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Giving Back: CareerBuilder’s Re-Employment Inititative [Video]
Several months after embarking on an ambitious effort to address the nation’s skills gap, CareerBuilder reflects on the results of the program. (Video below.) Earlier this year, as part of its...
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Why Are 60% of Millennials Leaving Their Dream Jobs?
Sixty percent. That’s the average percentage of Millennials who are cutting ties with what they thought were their dream jobs. In fact, many are checking out in three years or less. Whether this is due...
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What Will U.S. Hiring Look Like in Q2? Check Out the New Job Forecast
It may be hard to predict what we feel like eating for dinner tonight, but thankfully we’re able to forecast what the hiring landscape will look like in the second quarter of 2014. According to a...
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Would You Hire a Job-Hopper? More Than Half of Employers Have
Some things in life don’t carry that much of a stigma anymore. Case in point: taking selfies, dressing your pets like humans, and job hopping. While we couldn’t validate the first two with hard data,...
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