Tracy Davidson

If you’re thinking about relocating for a new job, there’s a good chance you may have to cover your own moving costs, even if you’ve got a job offer.
When you search for openings on the major job boards lately, lots of the ads say: “No relocation assistance is provided.” For those positions that do offer [...]

Interview with Nunzio Cerniglia from the Philadelphia Regional Census Center

A growing number of businesses are converting temporary workers to permanent hires, heralding a warming job market.
“It’s definitely on the rise,” says Rob Wilson, president of Employco Group, a Chicago-area staffing firm.
Temporary jobs jumped by 48,000 in February to 2 million and are up 284,000 since September, the government said Friday. That’s a good sign: [...]

Job hunting can be expensive. The costs of hiring career coaches, printing hundreds of résumés at Kinko’s and flying out for weekend job interviews can really add up, especially for someone who doesn’t have an income.
But finally, there’s a benefit to being unemployed. Job seekers can deduct search-related expenses, including employment and outplacement agency fees, [...]

The end of more than two years of job losses can’t come soon enough for most Americans.
But with all the attention given to the number of jobs on U.S. payrolls and the unemployment rate, it’s easy to miss one important sign of improvement in the job market: paychecks have started to get bigger.
Despite the millions [...]

The government’s closely watched monthly employment report will be unusually hard to read this time.
That’s because the snowstorms that hammered the East Coast last month occurred on the same week that the government surveys businesses about their payrolls. Employees who couldn’t make it to work and weren’t paid won’t be included on those payrolls. Job [...]

Menzfit is an organization that provides professional interview clothing for disadvantaged men. The men come from different backgrounds such as homeless shelters, job training programs, and ex-offender programs. They are outfitted from head to toe with a suit, shirt, tie, shoes, socks, and a belt if necessary. Additionally, Menzfit gives the men the opportunity to [...]

For construction worker Christopher Allaway, installing metal roofs while teetering on 4-inch-wide steel beams is an adrenaline rush.
“That’s when I know I’m alive,” says Allaway, a 20-year industry veteran who often worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks before he was laid off in July.
Despite enduring the longest hiatus of his life, he has no plans [...]

The Mortgage Bankers Association proposed a forbearance program Wednesday aimed at helping the unemployed pay their mortgages for up to nine months.
Under the proposal, loan servicers would reduce eligible borrowers’ monthly payments to no more than 31% of their household income for up to nine months. Unlike a modification, however, the arrears would be tacked [...]

“Nineteen percent of hospital CFOs projected permanent worker layoffs during the coming year,” says Penn State’s Workforce and Education Development Initiative, citing a survey by HCPro’s HealthLeaders Media, Marblehead, Mass., which says it surveyed 1,200 US hospital executives. Read survey results here. Excerpts:
“Over 80% believed that layoffs and staff reductions are most effective in dealing with [...]