http://www.hirediversity.com/ Careers, jobs and employment resources for the Minority http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135669 Joseph Tartakoff--Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2008-10-20T00:00:00-08:00 Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Wednesday that the company would have "much, much slower growth" in the size of its work force this fiscal year and probably the year after. The comments -- made during Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting -- follow an October statement by the company that its hiring plans were under review due to economic conditions.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135622 2008-10-20T00:00:00-08:00 New claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to a 16-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, providing more evidence of a rapidly weakening job market expected to get even worse next year.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135600 2008-10-20T00:00:00-08:00 Banking giant HSBC will lay off 500 staff in Asia, a spokesman said on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of cuts that has seen nearly 90,000 financial jobs axed since September. This will be HSBC's second round of layoffs in the region in less than two months, as the fallout from the global credit crisis continues to ripple through the financial sector.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135493 Cindy Krischer Goodman--The Miami Herald 2008-10-19T00:00:00-08:00 Some women business owners are laying off staff. Others are turning away less profitable work. While yet another is taking only clients that pay in a timely fashion. Entrepreneurs, the backbone of our economy, realize that these tough economic times take strategy to survive.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135376 Rotman School of Management 2008-10-18T00:00:00-08:00 TORONTO (AScribe Newswire) -- Employers hoping to get the best out of employees with huge performance contingent payments may actually be helping them to do worse, suggests a new paper published by a team of researchers in behavioral economics from several universities.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135359 Stefanie Monge--Omaha World-Herald 2008-10-18T00:00:00-08:00 Several Omaha employers said they won't be hovering over their employees on Dec. 1 to keep them from participating in the retail industry's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday" target="_blank">Cyber Monday</a>, which encourages people to do holiday shopping on the Internet.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135312 Jan Norman--The Orange County Register 2008-10-18T00:00:00-08:00 SANTA ANA, Calif. - The stock market may have plunged 15 percent in October and other indicators may be pointing at a severe recession. But not every business is down. "August was my best month ever.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135311 Marcia Heroux Pounds--Sun Sentinel. 2008-10-18T00:00:00-08:00 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Paula Vroman is still on track to retire in three years. Despite the stock market's volatility, Vroman has been saving 15 percent of her annual income in her 401(k) retirement account with her employer, NCCI, a Boca Raton, Fla., insurance data firm.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135217 Darrell Smith--The Sacramento Bee 2008-10-17T00:00:00-08:00 Fully half of the California's 400 largest public companies have no women in top executive positions, according to a study by the University of California, Davis, to be released today. The annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders charts the progress the state's public companies have made in cracking the executive glass ceiling.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=135200 Scott Andron--The Miami Herald 2008-10-17T00:00:00-08:00 Here's an economic indicator you won't hear about on CNBC: Call it the Employment Office Parking Lot Index. "If I happen to be late for work, I cannot park," said Carl Alexis, director of the West Miami-Dade employment office on Southwest 97th Avenue.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=134893 Irene Jones--HispanicBusiness.com 2008-10-13T00:00:00-08:00 <!-- Government Jobs: Is Now the Right Time? --> Most of the jobs market news this past month has been negative . . . which is about par for the course this year. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been cut from major companies looking to reduce their losses and return to profitability.... http://www.hirediversity.com/tools/news/story.asp?id=134883 Tony Natale 2008-10-13T00:00:00-08:00 By 2050, the Hispanic labor force is expected to more than double in the United States to 31 percent and the population of the group will make up 29 percent of the total population. Those and other estimates were given to more than 500 Hispanic business owners and guests at the 13th annual DATOS 2008 breakfast meeting Wednesday at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa....