TruCorps » employment

There’s Policy, and then There’s Direct Action

Tru — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:09:23 +0000

In a boost to employment, the US government is poised to hire more than 1 million new census workers.

Working for Uncle Sam

Tru — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:34:27 +0000

You may be a Sean Hannity-loving basher of the bloated bureaucracy. But in these timess, you might consider whether the federal government might be a pretty good boss.

The Scarlet O

Tru — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:09:26 +0000

You didn’t panic when your long-time job provider sent you packing. You have worked for a couple of major brands, your references are excellent, and your experience is the cubicle equivalent of veteran of the Great War. Besides, that check they gave you with your pink slip would last a year. Now the year’s up, the leads are running out, and you have to come to grips with the fact that in a buyer’s job market it’s easy to be dismissed as “overqualified.’‘

Parchment Pays

Tru — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:25:41 +0000

Remember that period in college when you questioned what good that degree in history would be? Now we know: college grads are faring much better in the current employment sweepstakes.