Update on Job Market from Washingtonian’s Harry Jaffee
If you follow DC media companies including NPR and the Washington Post you should watch Harry Jaffee’s video blog (vlog) update. He provides some details about potential layoffs and cutbacks at both organizations in his video.
DC Job Market Conditions
There has been quite a bit of talk about the national economy, including bailouts and buyouts lately, but not so much talk about the DC job market. Here are a few details on where the DC job market is relative to the national economy.
The US economy has been headed down…
(DJIA)
And the national unemployment rate has […]
AIA Jobs Campaign
Judy Bradt, a government contracting guru who I met at a recent conference posted an interesting article to her blog talking about the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) $2 million dollar ad campaign to remind the government and the incoming Obama Administration that budgets allocated to their members’ projects account for a lot of jobs. Very […]
Featured Event: DC ACM Panel: The State of the Washington DC Job Market
The DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (DC ACM)is a professional chapter of ACM has a wide range of IT professionals, and will hear from panelists representing various constituencies within the DC technology community tonight. This panel explores in further detail the regional characteristics (Northern Virginia, Maryland, downtown) and the types of employment […]
Buyouts Built on Bailout Bucks
I’m still waiting for my government bailout. Business has slowed down as the economy has, but no check has come in the mail from Uncle Sam. It wasn’t until this morning that I learned why the check hasn’t come. According to the LA Times, Bank of America made at least one key investment that helped […]
Hard Times Create Opportunities in Hiring
When my team started working with hiring teams in the field (think college and local job fairs) everyone wanted to be positioned next to Google. It wasn’t enough to be in a great location because Google was the employer magnet as far as everyone was concerned. Before that I talked to many a chief executive […]
53,000 More Jobs Dissapear
The economic donward spiral continues this morning as Citigroup announces the elimination of 53,000 additional jobs. I wonder if the executive managment took any sort of pay cut in the process. The team over at Goldman Sachs at least gave up their bonuses. So far I’ve hard about lots of layoffs from large corporations, but not […]
What Is Your Job Hunting Mascot?
As the number of layoffs continues to climb and the number of job seekers entering the market climbs the tables turn from a job seeker’s market back to an employer’s market. As this market transformation begins job seekers will need to start to think about how they are prosecuting their job search. Jobs that were […]
DC Begins To Cut Back Too
If you haven’t read Hamil Harris’s aticle in today’s Washington Post then you should. It provides a good write-up of the District’s efforts to cut back on expenditures. Most of our attention has been on how the economic situation has affected the private sector, but we should not forget that government programs from schools to […]
Layoff Roundup
There have been a lot of reports about layoffs in the startup and digital media space, so we’ve rounded up of many of them here. Let us know if you’ve heard of any others. I’ll point out that most of these reports are outside of the DC area, and also point out that I have […]
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