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August 20, 2003 |
Alexa II
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From the Bureau
Regional and State unemployment rates were generally little changed in July. All 4 regions, 41 States, and the District of Columbia recorded shifts of 0.3 percentage point or less in their unemployment rates. The national jobless rate edged down to 6.2 percent over the month. Nonfarm payroll employment decreased in 28 States. The West continued to register the highest unemployment rate in July, 6.5 percent. The Northeast recorded the lowest rate, 5.7 percent, closely followed by the Midwest and South, 5.8 percent each. The largest over-the-year unemployment rate change in any of the regions was a 0.3-percentage point increase in the Midwest.
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StaffNurse.com is a new career site for nursing professionals in the United Kingdom. It will use a specially developed Nursing Online Recruitment & Application Manager that allows nursing professionals to create a standardized and secure resume for online applications and CVs. From CareerSite.biz Ltd., owners of Railwaypeople.com.
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FT Jobs & Education, the online recruitment channel for Financial Times, teams up with Global Beach, a software application developer and managed services provider, to provide a faster and more efficient job search.
A new agreement between Acxiom, a customer and information management solutions firm, and hiring strategies firm TruStar Solutions combines human resource consulting and technology solutions designed to help companies conduct job vacancy searches from posting to background and screening checks.
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SIX WAYS NOT TO BUILD YOUR CAREER SITE
If a talented candidate dropped by your office, would you make her wait forever in the lobby, staring aimlessly at your company logo?
Would you demand her name, e-mail address, date of birth, current job and zip code before offering even the most basic information about your company? Would you force her to fill out complex applications just to find out if you're even hiring?
Of course not. You'd never do these things. No HR pro would--in real life.
But online, where nearly all potential hires begin their experience with your firm, many of us do all this and more. Maybe that's why 50 percent of all online job seekers describe the experience as unpleasant or frustrating.
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