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Everything You Need To Know About LinkedIn Recommendations
by Susan Adams, Forbes Staff
Austin No. 3 for most jobs gained since recession
Survey: Venture-Backed CEOs Expect Strong Revenue Growth In 2012
By Zoran Basich
Though the economy is recovering more slowly than most Americans hoped, start-up CEOs are seeing blue skies ahead for the coming year—and CEOs of venture-backed companies are the most cheery of all.
BLS Forecasts Fastest-Growing Jobs
By Lauren Weber
Plotting a new career move? New forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may provide clues about the fastest-growing fields this decade.
Assuming a full-employment economy with an unemployment rate of 5.2% by 2020, the BLS expects total U.S. employment to rise 14.3% over the current decade, resulting in 20.5 million new jobs. The projections are based on expected labor force participation, the assumed unemployment rate and estimated housing starts, among other factors.
Let’s Play Lawsuit or No Lawsuit
A GUIDE TO CIRCUMVENTING POTENTIAL EMPLOYMENT LAW LANDMINES
By Mike Maslanka
Employment law often makes no sense. Because of its counter-intuitive nature, up is down and down is up. So let’s play “lawsuit or no lawsuit” and match our wits versus the law.
Wanna Get Fired? Do These 10 Things
Wanna Get Fired? Do These 10 Things
Written by David Gee
Austin Listed as One of 25 Best Towns for Jobs
25 Best Towns For Jobs
Written by David Gee
Legal Briefs for HR - February 2012
Welcome to Legal Briefs for HR, an update on employment issues sent to over 5000 HR professionals, in-house counsel and business owners all over the U.S. to help them stay in the know about employment issues. Anyone is welcome to join the email group . . . just let me know you’d like to be added to the list and you’re in! Back issues are posted at www.munckwilson.com under Media Center/Legal Briefs.
Here’s the latest:
Dealing with the ‘F’ Word: How to Explain Why You Got Fired
Being fired from a job can happen to anyone and can occur for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you had a personality conflict with your immediate supervisor and your supervisor prevailed. Or, the job description was completely different from the one given to you during the interview and it was absolutely the wrong fit.
Or, how about this: You really screwed up and deserved to be fired!
Retaliation Is Again Most Common EEOC Charge
Complaints of retaliation by employers trumped race for the second consecutive year, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
