Employment News By Occupation

It seems that misconceptions and prejudices are alive and well in the wonderful world of sports management and administration. A recent study done at North Carolina State University shows that race and gender mean more than experience when it comes to getting an entry-level position in the sports...

The United Farm Workers Union is fighting accusations that migrant workers are stealing jobs from Americans with a recent sardonic campaign called Take Our Jobs. The program guarantees to connect applicants with farm jobs in their area, and the union claims that the number of people that would be needed to...

Baby Boomers make up more of the U.S. work force -- 38 percent -- than any other age group, and even with the recession forcing many to delay retirement a few years, the first Boomers will turn 65 in 2011 and will begin retiring. That will be the beginning of a retirement boom over the next five years, giving...

Are you a creative-minded person looking to break into the media industry? It may not be as hard as you may think to jumpstart your career in the media world. Full-time jobs in any industry are hard to find in this economy. Even if full-time jobs are difficult to come by, every industry still has a large...

It has been one month since BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig erupted into a cloud of explosive smoke and fire, killing 11 crew members, and sending a thick deluge of oil into the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana. America has been watching as this disaster slowly unfolds and claims the lives of fish and...

Print media isn't dead, it's just going through a rebirth. So if your dream is still to land a job in the publishing world, don't consider that dream DOA just yet. There are still jobs opening up at publishing houses across the country. The trick is knowing what to look for and making the right connections to...

Getting a green job doesn't just make ecological sense, it makes economical sense, according to the Women's Bureau division of the United States Department of Labor. "Green jobs are diverse, rewarding, and overwhelmingly nontraditional to women," the DOL reported. National efforts are being made to get women...

If you focus on the fact that the American economy added 290,000 jobs in April -- an unexpectedly high number, you won't be so discouraged by the news that the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent, according to the latest numbers released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

OK, I admit it. Even though I spend a lot of time thinking about the world of work and the jobs people do, I never thought much about the roles doormen have played in my life -- until last week, of course, when the threat of a doorman strike in New York City brought my neat little world of apartment dwelling to...