Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Business Insider published an article this week titled The US Labor Market Is a Long Way From Being Back to Normal. They presented a series of sobering charts showing that the […]
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Self-Employment Is On the Rise [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Entrepreneurs and solopreneurs are a special breed of #CareerGravity practitioners. There are two main reasons for this. First, their online presence is usually critical to their ability to acquire and keep customers. Second, […]
LinkedIn Is Kicking @$$ and Taking Names [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. You will find more statistics at Statista This week’s chart comes courtesy of Statista and clearly shows that LinkedIn is currently at the top of the technology food chain: For today’s chart, we […]
Worker Skill Acquisition Over Past Five Years [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. This blog post is a perfect example of how bloggers need to have a “content creation mindset” that is always on the lookout for content. I’ve been traveling all week and grabbed a […]
Employment Impact of Recent U.S. Olympic Games [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. This week, I thought I would investigate the employment impact of the most recent Olympic games in the U.S. This chart shows employment spike that occurred during the 1992 Atlanta summer games and […]
Most Common Resume Mistakes [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. In CareerBuilder’s annual survey, they asked 2,298 hiring managers a series of questions about job applicants. This chart shows the nine most commonly cited resume mistakes they see on a regular basis.
Private Pension Underfunding at Record Levels [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. This week’s chart shows private pension funding compared to the S&P 500 and comes courtesy of the ZeroHedge blog: …according to a recent S&P study, private companies are at record levels of pension under-funding. Fiscal […]
Top 20 Projected Growth Industries [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. This data comes from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics news release in February, 2012. “The BLS projections are built on the assumption of a full employment economy in 2020. The 2007-09 recession represented […]
U.S. Unemployment Rate vs. Participation Rate [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Yesterday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the monthly jobs report for June, 2012. The BLS said private payrolls increased 84,000, while the government lost 4,000 jobs. Economists expected job growth of […]
Goods vs Service Industry Employment Trends [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Pretty much everyone knows that the U.S. is a service-based economy. Until I looked at the data, I never would have guessed how disparate the goods and service industry employment trends were.