In fantastic news for unemployed Australian women, a commerce student recently posted an extremely long (on purpose, as to "filter out the less keen people") job description on the job search site "Seek." He's looking for the right secretary/driver for his upcoming media/arts publishing company, which will be a mix of ABC …
A casual perusal of our finest, financially destitute journalistic publications will most likely yield some pretty dismal information about the economy and how god-awful it is. The economy is so bad, we are told, that it is going out of its way to destroy an entire generation's hopes and dreams — millennials, as it…
Prepare for your favorite public places to be invaded by an onslaught of bored teenagers this summer. While they once would have been spending their days mowing lawns or working in the local ice cream store, teens these days aren't getting summer jobs like they used to. This year, fewer than three in 10 American teens…
The jobs report released last week didn't offer a lot of good news — the percent of working-age folks who are gainfully employed is at its lowest rate in 30 years. Despite the disappointing statistics, there is a glimmer of hope.
The 23-year-old Princes of Funny Hats is on the job hunt according to Buckingham Palace, hoping to score a full-time gig in a tough employment market and lead as normal a life as someone who lives in a palace and receives state-sponsored police protection can hope.
On the heels of the "man-cession" is the "he-covery," two neologisms similar in that they both pertain to men's economic prospects during the last few years and they're both irritating as hell. Despite the fact that for every three new jobs in 2011, two went to men, it now looks like women and men are back to being hired…
A valley in Palmira, Colombia, which was once war-torn and filled with little economic opportunity has been transformed by two women, Patricia Restrepo and her daughter Vanessa. Ten years ago, the women started a butterfly export business called Alas de Colombia after they noticed that there was a growing demand for…
Martha and Lorena Reyes had worked at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, CA for a combined total of over 30 years. But after they complained about "humiliating" photos posted of them, they were both fired. Now they're taking action.
A British hospital is conducting an internal investigation after a job ad on its website concluded with the line, "Usual rubbish about equal opportunities employer etc." The hospital was quick to state that it does not actually consider equal employment opportunity to be "rubbish":
A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests one mechanism by which jobs become gender-segregated: The way they're advertised, and the way men and women tend to respond differently to those advertisements.
Freight company CEO and President Judy McReynolds has been a lot of things: A teenage gymnast, an engineering student, a tax accountant, and a wife and mother. But she's never been someone who made gender an issue. That's nice!
Or, rather, because her boss couldn't afford to keep her on. But, as said boss rationalized it, "Now that you have a husband, he can take care of you."
Which is great news! If you live in a city, anyhow. And are under 30. And don't have kids. And...
A survey found that only 45% of Americans are happy with their jobs, the lowest level in 22 years. Reasons include stagnating salaries, increasing health insurance premiums, and being forced to wear 37 pieces of flair. [AP, via CBS]
Yesterday, the Guardian published a piece on the fates of asylum seekers in these tough economic times. Forbidden from working or otherwise supplementing their meager allowance from the state, 31,500 people are mired in poverty, stuck in limbo.
A story in today's Times profiles one of those dudes who takes a job a week for a year in hopes of writing one of those "I spent a year doing BLANK and all I got was a noticeably lower advance than the last guy who pitched a book about spending a year doing BLANK" memoirs. It's filled with quotes on how young people…
