The eight-hour workday is fairly standard in the United States, and June 19 marks the 100th anniversary of it becoming law for federal workers back in 1912.
Private companies began to follow suit four years later, but these days, working only eight hours a day sometimes seems downright quaint.
Centene Corporation is coming to Tyler and is looking to hire 300-plus employees over the next few years, which is very good news for East Texans. With the economy still on the brink of recovery from the recession, this really comes at a great time for East Texans still looking for work.
June 12, 2012 The other day I was thinking back about my first part-time job and thought about how much fun it was! I was 16 years old when I entered the job market and was really excited that I was going to get a paycheck and have money of my own.
I had a heart-to-heart with a friend of mine who left one job for another, only to find out the grass may have looked greener on the other side, but she still had to mow. In other words, she was extremely unhappy with her job and couldn’t figure out why. She then left that job only to find the same issues in her new job. Sometimes we can work to correct the unhappy, but how do you know when it’s time to really look elsewhere? Here are 8 signs that it’s time to quit your job.
As the debate rages over whether getting a college degree is worth the money, a new set of statistics is giving many people pause — seems half of recent college grads are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge.
If you’re a smoker who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, you may soon have to scratch city employment off your list of job prospects — the city is considering a ban on hiring tobacco users.
Depending on how the workforce is measured, women have either become the majority of workers in the United States or are right on the cusp of becoming so.
According to a new survey from Allstate-National Journal, most Americans think this is a positive development.
At some point you’ve probably held a job that turned out to be unpleasantly different than you thought. As it turns out, though, the warning signs of what positions really entail might actually be right in the job postings.
It’s pretty common for companies to scout out the social media accounts of prospective hires — and now a new study from Northern Illinois University says Facebook profiles are actually a pretty good predictor of job performance.
For job interviews, it used to be enough to just show up in a nice suit, answer some perfunctory questions and be on your way.
But these days, some companies have changed the interview process so much that candidates wind up feeling as though they’re trying out for a reality TV show instead of simply vying for a 9-5 paycheck.
Being able to work from home is a popular employee perk. And according to a new poll conducted by online communications provider TeamViewer, some people want to telecommute so much that they’d be willing to sacrifice some rather unorthodox things just to do it.
