Archive for January, 2008
Not so new news: Your chosen field can impact your earnings just as much as your level of education
New research and data tables released by the U.S. Census Bureau today reveal that workers with quality vocational training can earn just as much as their counterparts with college degrees. The tables represent a study entitled What It’s Worth: Field of Training and Economic Status in 2004, and they analyze issues such as: the [...]
Employment a problem in your town? These U.S. cities may have more to offer…
I was skimming through some of the recent posts I’ve written for OnlineCareerGuide.com, and I noticed that most of them were based on career-specific news, articles, and statistics. I wanted to shift gears a bit today, so I chose to write about locations instead. Yesterday Forbes.com published its list of the “Best Cities [...]
New year, new jobs? Not really…
Let’s just say that the newest payroll numbers from December weren’t a great way for the country to ring in the New Year. The U.S. gained 18,000 jobs overall last month, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics likes to phrase as “essentially” or “relatively unchanged.” I like to phrase this minuscule jump in [...]