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40 Diverse Companies

Filed under: Employment Trends, Job Listings, Career Change

Posted Jun 24th 2009 2:12PM

Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com

Twenty years ago, you may have been hard pressed to find a company that employed women or minorities in senior management positions, if at all. Today, you'd be less likely to find otherwise: 28 percent of employers have more than five women in senior management positions and 18 percent of employers have more than five people of an ethnic minority in senior management positions, according to a 2008 CareerBuilder.com diversity survey.Diversity can have a considerable influence on how your organization is perceived by others and, as a result, more and more companies are making diversity a core value or a business imperative.

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Top 10 Summer Gigs

Filed under: Employment Trends, Job Listings, Salary

Posted Jun 11th 2009 4:40PM

by Bridget Quigg,

Where can a willing, eager and cash-hungry student go for employment during these short summer months? The following is a list of both classic and unexpected jobs for college and high school students during summer vacation.

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Unemployment: 13 Cities Above 15 Percent

Filed under: Employment Trends

Posted Jun 3rd 2009 4:15PM

93 Metro Areas at 10% or More; Rates Rise Year-over-year in All 372 Metropolitan Areas for Fourth Consecutive Month.

By Julianne Pepitone, CNNMoney.com contributing writer

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- There were 13 unlucky cities with unemployment rates topping 15% in April, and another 93 saw joblessness climb above 10%, according to a government report released Wednesday.

By comparison, only seven cities reported unemployment rates above 10% in April 2008, the Labor Department said in its report.

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Autoworkers Swallow a Bitter Pill

Filed under: Employment Trends, Highest Paying Jobs

Posted May 29th 2009 3:48PM

As union workers are forced to make big sacrifices, a tough job that used to promise security and the American dream becomes a lot less appealing.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com senior writer

NEW YORK -- There was a time, not very long ago, when getting a job on the production line at a big automaker meant an instant ticket to the American dream, even for someone with little formal education. Not anymore.

"The minute you signed the paper, you were instantly vaulted into the middle class," said Mike Smith, director of Wayne State University's Walter P. Reuther Library in Detroit, named for the founder of the United Auto Workers, the union that represents auto workers.

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Caught in the Act!

Filed under: Employment Trends, Career Advice

Posted May 29th 2009 12:20PM

What to Say When the Boss Catches You Job Searching at Work

Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer

One day in 2002, Neil Moodley was bored at work. To idle his curiosity, he decided to check out a few Web sites to see what other jobs were out there. The next thing he knew, his boss's voice was behind him asking if he was "off to sunnier climes."

"I panicked -- no doubt about it. First I swiveled my chair around to try and futilely hide my screen. Then I tried to cover up by claiming I was researching jobs for a friend," Moodley recalls. "The exit interview a few months later when I did actually find a new job was somewhat awkward."

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