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Back in February I wrote a blog post about the vicious cycle of unemployment where the unemployed find it harder and harder to get hired wh...

"Interim" is defined as "a temporary or provisional arrangement; stopgap; makeshift". But in the working world, interim ...

The Wall Street Journal reported today that job openings increased in October to the highest level since before the 2008 financial crisis. ...

Being played out in the New York media is a very public contract dispute between an employee and an employer. This isn't strange--especi...

Since it is a week before Thanksgiving, many would think that hiring for 2010 would be, for the most part, done. And with an economy bouncin...

Last week we talked about Steven Slater here at the Welcome to the World of HR blog, but obviously he's not the only disgruntled worker...

Way back in November of 2007 I wrote a post on the Astron Solutions blog titled "You're Fired...Wait...You're Hired" afte...

We've all been rejected. Whether it be in high school on the person we had a crush on, when we were applying to college, when we've ...

We start out on this Wednesday with an interesting post from Fistful of Talent which talks about the sad state we've gotten to in job o...

It's a mega link week here at Astron's World of HR blog. First, from The Journal of Commerce , an interesting article about the hi...

This headline ran across the USA Today website today: Redskins say they 'over-complied' with Rooney Rule; Roger Goodell confirms it...

The recession has taken its hits on the job market and we've covered a lot of it on the blog. But no one (at least in the Mainstream Med...

I was reading an interview from National Review yesterday about how the Israeli military has helped their economy grow by leaps and bounds ...

We all know the job market isn't good. Despite any numbers to the contrary, we are pretty sure we'll see 10% unemployment very soon ...

- The South Florida Business Journal starts us up with a Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) survey which says that hiring is slow...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution starts us off with an article about whether you should dress business casual for an interview: click here A...

It'll be interesting to see the fallout in the job market from the current financial crisis, but some effects are already seen... The fi...

Seriously...and you thought the weather was bad in New York...: click here Courtesy of the Boston Globe's Monster.com Hiring Hub HR Cent...

Among the social networking and various online websites designed to attract job seekers and job posters alike, Craigslist, a website that is...

We're not ready to call it a weekend just yet... Rosie left us a comment on the last post with two great website links: click here and ...