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Job Stats: Which Way is Really Up

Patrice Payne - December 28, 2011

Up and down like a seesaw. That’s how the unemployment statistics seem to fluctuate from month to month; they go down from bad; up to worse. In my state of California, the jobless rate rose to

Are there any companies out there who really appreciate our experience?

Cher Forman - November 25, 2011

Are you finding that there are companies out there who actually appreciate our experience, or is there a massive trend to push us out so younger people can have those jobs at a lower rate of pay?

Unemployed Need Not Apply

Camille Grabowski - August 6, 2011

We now need legislation to ensure companies are open to hiring the unemployed. Yes, you read that right. No matter what your resume skills, accomplishments, or career plan, companies who automatically reject resumes of the unemployed must be stopped. Read about the bill

Is Retirement As We Know It Dead?

Jeff Winters - June 28, 2011

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Where Have All The Workers Gone?

Jeff Winters - June 7, 2011

I am often asked what motivated me to co-found OurExperienceCounts. I had spent the last twenty years of my career as a semiconductor executive and had announced my retirement. I now believe that Paul Wiseman, a writer for the associated press has answered that question far more eloquently than I ever could. Last week he wrote an article titled, “Out of site, out of mind as more workers quit.” His opening sentence reads, “Where did all the workers go? 

Job Stats: Which Way is Really Up

Patrice Payne - November 9, 2010

Up and down like a seesaw. That’s how the unemployment statistics seem to fluctuate from month to month; they go down from bad; up to worse. In my state of California, the jobless rate rose to

Outsourcing

Dan Hartford - September 27, 2010

We can’t change the economy until we start getting jobs back into this country. We can’t get jobs back in this country till the economics of outsourcing radically change.  A friend of mine, working for a major IT consulting company, told me a few days ago that on his project they have 89 consultants in addition to himself. 87 of those consultants are Indian and Chinese even though the project is not in India or China. In addition, many of the Asia based consultants are physically working at the project site in the US but are paid on India/China pay scales.

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