Lowest US unemployment rate since 1969

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Nuts & Bolts

U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta today issued the following statement regarding the September 2018 Employment Situation report: “In September, the unemployment rate fell to 3.7%, the lowest since 1969.  “Encouraging indicators were broad based. For the fifth month this year, the unemployment rate has been below 4.0%. The unemployment rate for women fell to 3.6%, the lowest in 65 years, and the unemployment...

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In this Sept. 20, 2018, photo Bret Bonnet of Quality Logo Products poses for a photo at his office in Aurora, Ill. Bonnet was ghosted on what would have been an employee’s first day of work, just hours after the would-be staffer texted him. “To this day we have never heard from him. I’m not sure why anyone would invest so much of their own time/effort only to ghost us at the last minute,” Bonnet says. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

Workers are bailing on jobs without notice

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Nuts & Bolts

NEW YORK (AP) — All seemed to be going well with Randolph Rice’s new receptionist. She asked for more responsibilities and got them, and said she was happy. Then, two months into the job at Rice’s law office, she didn’t show up for work or call in sick. Rice tried to reach her, but got no response. He’d been ghosted: The receptionist ended the work relationship in much the same way many people end...

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DHL Supply Chain converts 50 percent more interns into associates year-over-year despite industry talent gap

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 in Nuts & Bolts

DHL Supply Chain, the Americas’ leader in contract logistics and part of Deutsche Post DHL Group, is addressing the logistics industry’s talent gap head on with an internship program aimed at making supply chain careers more appealing. From 2016 to 2017, the third-party logistics provider converted 50 percent more interns into full-time associates. As DHL Supply Chain found in its research report, “The Supply Chain...

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