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...prospects for a turnaround anytime soon are not good, as companies engaged in recruitment report discouraging numbers as well. Job postings from employers fell in all nine Census Bureau regions in October, according to a report released by the job search website Monster.com, whose employment index slid 10 points last month after rising in August and September. The precipitous drop, said Monster Worldwide's vice president of research, Jesse Harriott, "suggests that U.S. businesses are scaling back their recruitment due to uncertainty surrounding the global financial crisis." Other reports confirm the trend: Almost 30% of executives surveyed by the consulting...
...John Hoagland of Mainstay Partners, a boutique executive search company that works with venture capital firms, argues the market for clean-technology - particularly companies focused on energy storage and transmission - should rise, and with it, employment. The sector's prospects were burnished this week by the election of a president who has publicly vowed to make energy a top priority. "Barack Obama, says Hoagland, "is not beholden to a group of friends who see the world within a 'Drill, baby, drill' mindset." EnergyHeadhunter's Clark echoes excitement over alternative-energy jobs: "Fuel cell technology is a strong area for recruitment...
Technology is another fertile arena. The tech news website CNET features a "spreadsheet of sunshine": a list of top Web 2.0 companies in search of software engineers, developers, open source technicians and other savvy staffers. Among the blue-chip companies hiring en masse are Facebook, Samsung, Intel and Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry. But it's also possible to flourish at high-tech companies without being, well, high-tech. "If you're in the sales side of technology, that's a pretty good place to be," Hoagland says. "Until we find bottom, what [companies] are going...
...After former IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen stepped down in 2007 to begin her successful campaign for one of New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate seats, the Institute tapped Purcell as her replacement following a year-long search...
...accessible of any of his contemporaries, and he’s arguably the most technically skilled among them—Fahey was the label’s creative center. His early discography is an unparalleled example of American Primitive, but his later albums depart strongly from that movement in search of ambient and drone-oriented experimentalism. Two of his final albums, “The Mill Pond” and “Womblife,” go as far as abandoning the language of acoustic guitar in favor of churning, feedback-heavy noise-passages. Fahey’s relentless...