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3,000 FBI Jobs More Popular Than 12,000 Vegas Jobs?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 6, 2009 Comment (1)Yesterday, an under-construction mega-development in Las Vegas announced it was hiring for 12,000 new jobs. The FBI also announced it was hiring for about 3,000 new jobs.
Today, the FBI announcement is all over the web, while the Vegas buzz has been pretty quiet. Interesting.
What are these two entities looking for?
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Why Burris, Panetta, Franken Are Just Like Us
Tweet Share on Facebook January 6, 2009 Comment (4)According to the Labor Department, more than 10 million Americans are trying to find jobs and want to work, but some obstacle is standing in their way. The obvious roadblock is the recession and its destruction of available jobs. But things like poorly written resumes, lack of relevant experience, and seriously mistaken interpretations of corporate culture are also holding some people up.
So it may only be appropriate that we start 2009 with a similar scene in Washington--three people who are willing and able to work, but facing significant obstacles on their way to starting the job.
Roland Burris won't get seated until the Illinois secretary of state signs off on his appointment. No such luck today. Al Franken won't be seated until litigation is completed and his competitor Norm Coleman is promising a courtroom battle.
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Las Vegas CityCenter Has 12,000 Job Openings
Tweet Share on Facebook January 5, 2009 Comment (3)Las Vegas has not been doing so hot during the recession--gaming revenues are down, unemployment is up, home values have taken a major hit. But pessimism isn't really a Vegas trait, and a new development on the strip has 12,000--count em--job openings to prove it.
The new CityCenter "urban metropolis" is expected to open late this year with a gaming resort (with 4,000 rooms), multiple non-gaming hotels (including a Mandarin Oriental), a tower of 2,600 condos, and a half-million square feet of retail and entertainment space.
CityCenter today launched its careers site at www.citycentercareers.com--you'll find applications there.
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Just For Men: For Second Careers
Tweet Share on Facebook January 5, 2009 Comment (2)I caught an interesting TV commercial this morning for Just For Men hair dye. A silver-haired father and his wife greet their son's acceptance into college with an understandable concern--how to pay for it? The solution: the father says he'll go for a job interview.
Next scene: Father's got a brand new, darker 'do.
Just For Men's tagline: "Stay in the game."
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Recession Concessions for 2009
Tweet Share on Facebook January 2, 2009 Comment (31)Here--a brief rundown on some of the things workers will be giving up this year:
The city/company car: In New York, city agencies will be forced to hand over the keys to nearly 700 city-owned cars--saving the administration some $20 million over two years, the New York Times reports.
The private driver: In Hollywood, studios are cutting travel budgets and executives are being asked to skip the five-star hotels and the private car service, the Los Angeles Times reports. Gone, too, are the gilded movie premieres.
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Why Lawyers and Truckers (and the Rest of Us) Should Accept Pay Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook January 2, 2009 Comment (6)Amid the multitude of layoff announcements in the past year, we've heard a quiet chorus of calls for something different--something that would cut costs in a recession without destroying livelihoods.
The Teamsters have tentatively agreed to a 10 percent pay cut for all union workers at major trucking company YRC Worldwide. While the union members themselves won't finish voting on the change until next Tuesday, the agreement with the tough-minded Teamsters is significant.
The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein explains why:
