The Netherlands has privatised its job-search agency, and pays a bonus for placing workers in jobs.
ECONOMIST: The OECD softens its line on labour-market reform
Similarly, the combination of job-search advice, government-run make-work schemes and in-work tax breaks is expensive.
Recent studies show that the average time currently being spent in job-search is 40 minutes a day.
Firms are also marketing themselves differently to job candidates, says Rosemary Haefner of CareerBuilder, a popular job-search website.
Another third or so will need minimal assistance: job-search schemes and the like.
He recently told a client to share her job-search tales with other parents while picking up her children at day care.
Its stock has been depressed because of investor concern that social networking fueled by the Internet might displace the online job-search business model.
FORBES: Here Are Five Attractive Takeover Baits That Could Join The Hot M&A Hit Parade
Researchers from job-search portal CareerCast.com scoured their database of job descriptions and hand-picked those positions they thought seemed most promising for pick-ups.
Instead, after five months of cold-calling on stores and trawling job-search sites, he has received just one job offer, from a local hotel.
When I witnessed the job-search drama as a student at Yale Law School, just about the most desirable placement was a spot at Cravath.
Margie Davis of Project Match, a non-profit agency that offers job-search and other services in Chicago, says she has seen many women follow this path.
President Obama wants to create a Universal Displaced Worker Program to provide individuals with high-quality job-search assistance and access to critical skills training for high-growth industries.
WHITEHOUSE: Revamping Job Training with the American Job Center
They believe that this true and stop any job-search activities.
At Monster Worldwide, a global job-search and employment-services giant operating in 55 countries, its shareholder-friendly management team has a history of selling companies when the price is right, says Katz.
FORBES: Here Are Five Attractive Takeover Baits That Could Join The Hot M&A Hit Parade
Increased executive workloads "are unsustainable" because employers have stretched their leaders too thin for too long, concluded a majority of 153 U.S. recruiters polled in late May by ExecuNet, a job-search network for executives.
WSJ: How Google's Marissa Mayer and Others Manage Time and Relieve Stress
Daniel LeClair, vice-president of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a business-school accreditation agency, says that its members are reaching out to graduates through alumni magazines, mentoring workshops and through the student job-search team.
That is good news for employers: A 2011 paper from economists Peter Kuhn and Hani Mansour shows that online job-search is now starting to make the labor market more efficient as candidates are more quickly matched to jobs.
And even if you're trying to get yourself out of unemployment, the job search itself brings significant stress: Research suggests that unemployed workers who actively engage in job-search activities are more likely to have worse mental health, according to a 2005 study.
While the Internet has made it easy to apply for work, career experts say that offline networking efforts to meet people and get introductions are a far more effective way to land jobs especially since 80% of jobs aren't publicly advertised, says Steven Rothberg, founder of job-search website CollegeRecruiter.com in Minneapolis.
Louis, Missouri, from Santiago, Chile, earlier this year but, with the job market taking a downturn, it wasn't an ideal to a start a job search -- much less from 5, 000 miles away.
Social job search start-up BranchOut has launched a new product to enable recruiters to search and find job candidates through Facebook.
FORBES: BranchOut Launches Recruiter Tool For Searching Facebook
Companies such as Facebook-based job search company Branchout, daily deals aggregator Yipit and car-sharing company Getaround are among those that have raised funding through the site.
To help you figure out, CareerCast, a four-year-old job search website in Carlsbad, Calif.
But by junior and senior year, most students tend to fall in line with that decades-old tradition: the on-campus job search.
If you've been looking only for a full-time job, consider broadening your search to contract and part-time work.
Some job seekers base their job search practices on the old-school way of sending out a resume and waiting for a phone call, leaving them frustrated that they are not getting any responses.
There were also increases in labour-market flexibility through improving job search for those on benefits, reducing replacement rates, increasing in-work benefits and restricting union power.
But I still -- in my job search felt that family is number one for me.
CNN: Transcript of June 'CNN Money Summit: Money & Main St.'
We asked job aggregator Indeed.com, a Google-like search engine that pulls together listings from company websites and online job boards, to compile a list of companies with the most listings for holiday jobs right now, at big companies that have 2, 500 or more employees.
应用推荐