Attention job seekers: the East Coast’s startup culture is booming. Computer Science majors and workers, this is where you want to be. If you have been keeping up with Spark Hire the past week or so, it’s...
Archive - November 2011
Bill Clinton “Back to Work”
Bill Clinton speaks with the Today Show’s Ann Curry about his new book “Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy”. He believes the economy and jobs are not mutually exclusive...
Startup Scene in Massachusetts Growing
As Rich Miner, partner at Google Ventures in Cambridge, stated in the Boston Business Journal, Massachusetts is not exactly viewed as the place where “consumer-oriented tech startups blossom.” But according...
U.S. Antidumping Regulations and American Jobs
Many of the resources Americans use to produce goods are imported. In fact, almost half of the materials imported to the United States are used in American manufacturing. When foreign materials flood the US market...
Students Question Higher Education
While reports show that the job market is picking up some steam, a piece by KETV News reports on how college students today have started to question whether going to college right now is even a good idea. If you...
Job Market of the Apes #infographic
OnlineSchools takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how the job market is changing and what the future holds. Their infographic compares the decline of the job market for humans with comparative rise of apes to take on human...
Obama Trying to Aid Veterans with Tax Cuts
With the veteran unemployment rate higher than the 9 percent national average, it is going to be exceedingly difficult for the remaining 40,000 troops in Iraq to find jobs when they return. As covered last week...
sparkCast Episode 016
The official podcast of SparkHire.com. Covering news related to the job market, HR, startups, and more. The Job Market: Occupy Milwaukee demands ‘jobs now!’ Obama to issue exec orders until jobs bill passes Obama...
Startups Band Together to Attract Job Seekers
Earlier in the week we posted a blog that highlighted the CEO of magnify.com Steve Rosenbaum’s Hierarchy of Startup needs. In that article, he made several comparisons to Silicon Valley and New York and how the...
Is the Job Market Stabilizing?
According to the Financial Times, the job market seems to be stabilizing but at a very weak rate. As reported, the private sector added 110,000 jobs in October. That is slightly above the estimated 100,000 jobs that...
