As I wrote a couple of posts ago the national unemployment was 9.7% in August. While this number is disheartening, exactly how much so depends on where you live. I have friends all over the country. As I talk to them about the job situation I hear responses that range from “not too bad here” [...]
When you are unemployed as I am you spend a lot of time on the Internet. Much of it is spent looking for a job. Whether it is browsing company career sites, pouring over the latest Monster posts, or trying to network on Linkedin I spend a lot of time on the web looking for [...]
Unemployment Rate:
9.7% in Aug 2009
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Change in Unemployment Level:
+466,000 in Aug 2009
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Change in Employment Level:
-392,000 in Aug 2009
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Change in Civilian Labor Force Level:
+73,000 in Aug 2009
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Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate:
65.5% in Aug 2009
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Employment-Population Ratio:
59.2% in Aug 2009
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Unemployment Rate:
5.8% for 2008
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Unemployment Level:
8,924,000 for 2008
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Alabama
10.4%(p) in Aug 2009
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Alaska
8.3%(p) in Aug 2009
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Arizona
9.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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Arkansas
7.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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California
12.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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Colorado
7.3%(p) in Aug 2009
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Connecticut
8.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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Delaware
8.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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D.C.
11.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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Florida
10.7%(p) in Aug 2009
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Georgia
10.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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Hawaii
7.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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Idaho
8.9%(p) in Aug 2009
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Illinois
10.0%(p) in Aug 2009
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Indiana
9.9%(p) in Aug 2009
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Iowa
6.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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Kansas
7.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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Kentucky
11.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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Louisiana
7.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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Maine
8.6%(p) in Aug 2009
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Maryland
7.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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Massachusetts
9.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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Michigan
15.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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Minnesota
8.0%(p) in Aug 2009
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Mississippi
9.5%(p) in Aug 2009
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Missouri
9.5%(p) in Aug 2009
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Montana
6.6%(p) in Aug 2009
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Nebraska
5.0%(p) in Aug 2009
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Nevada
13.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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New Hampshire
6.9%(p) in Aug 2009
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New Jersey
9.7%(p) in Aug 2009
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New Mexico
7.5%(p) in Aug 2009
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New York
9.0%(p) in Aug 2009
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North Carolina
10.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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North Dakota
4.3%(p) in Aug 2009
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Ohio
10.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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Oklahoma
6.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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Oregon
12.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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Pennsylvania
8.6%(p) in Aug 2009
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Puerto Rico
15.1%(p) in Aug 2009
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Rhode Island
12.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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South Carolina
11.5%(p) in Aug 2009
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South Dakota
4.9%(p) in Aug 2009
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Tennessee
10.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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Texas
8.0%(p) in Aug 2009
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Utah
6.0%(p) in Aug 2009
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Vermont
6.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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Virginia
6.5%(p) in Aug 2009
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Washington
9.2%(p) in Aug 2009
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West Virginia
9.0%(p) in Aug 2009
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Wisconsin
8.8%(p) in Aug 2009
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Wyoming
6.6%(p) in Aug 2009
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Does the headline for this post sound confusing? It should. According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of people filing new unemployment claims decreased by 12,000 to 545,000 seasonally adjusted (whatever that means.) In the same release, two paragraphs later, they say that the seasonally adjusted number for insured unemployed [...]
In one of my early posts, Being your own boss, I talked about using this time of unemployment as an opportunity to look at starting your own business. I have a former colleague who did just that. After getting laid off he looked around for something to do to earn some money. What he found was that there [...]
After I received the “world’s fastest rejection” that I wrote about in my previous post I started thinking about the automated systems many companies use to go through the hundreds of resumes the receive. As I thought about how these systems work (I am from the tech industry, after all) I began to equate them to [...]
Maybe I should submit it to the Guinness Book of World Records. I just received what could be the world’s fastest rejection for a job application – 2 minutes and 38 seconds.
Here is the story. I was on Hotjobs and found a job I wanted to apply for. I went through the process of applying for [...]
I have seen something in this recessionary job market that I haven’t seen before. That is the tendency of employers to give searches to recruiters and post the same jobs on the job sites. While I am not a recruiter this would seem to be a disincentive. When I have enlisted recruiters in the past it was [...]
