Small business bosses are feeling a little more optimistic than they were a few months ago.
But that optimism is accompanied by a deep conservatism toward expansion, and an expectation that it will take time for the economy to recover, a new Network of City Business Journals survey of 776 small business leaders in January shows.
Small [...]
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February 16, 2009
Small business optimism increases
December 26, 2008
Newspapers: Defensive, Depressed and Desperate?
As research, I’ve been following a GoogleNews search for “newspapers” and this weekend alone was revealing as I heard a chorus of newspaper people singing in harmony but in a minor key: defensive, depressed, desperate, and sometimes downright dizzy. Here’s a sampling of what everyone’s saying:
Jon Talton in the Seattle Times echoes Jack Shafer in [...]
December 13, 2008
U.S. recession not close to 1930s
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of the arbiter of U.S. economic cycles said on Monday that while the U.S. recession will likely be longer than average, it will not even come close to the Great Depression.
“We are in a very different place than the U.S. economy was in the 1930s,” James Poterba, president of [...]
December 3, 2008
There’s life after banking, Charlotte
Charlotte has proven itself as a financial capital and location for corporate headquarters, but the region must be proactive in building a more diverse economy.
That was the message Monday from a handful of location advisers – people who help companies decide on relocation and expansion sites. The consultants met with area business and civic leaders [...]
October 1, 2008
The #1 Cause of Nurse Faculty Shortage?
Posted on: Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 03:00 CDT
By Fitzpatrick, Joyce J
WE ARE ALL AWARE OF THE NURSE FACULTY SHORTAGE, evidenced by the long waiting lists of qualified students for our programs and the fatigue we feel at the end of a long day of teaching. Although it may not be polite or politically correct to [...]
September 23, 2008
Why Nurses Quit
by Carrie Vaughan, for HealthLeaders Media, September 19, 2008
We’ve all heard the reports. The U.S. healthcare system will need more than one million new registered nurses by 2020. Thousands of nursing school applicants are turned away each year because there isn’t enough nursing faculty, clinical sites, and classroom space. The shortage of registered nurses in [...]
September 18, 2008
What? A Banner Year in Nurse Recruiting!
Despite a shortage of nurses locally and throughout the nation, Erie County Medical Center is reporting a banner year for recruitment.
The hospital said it attracted more recent nursing graduates as well as experienced nurses than the previous 12 years. Year-to-date, ECMC has hired 181 nursed, including 125 registered nurses (RN) and 56 licensed practical nurses [...]
August 29, 2008
Employment brand recruiting through video
Need talent? Why not make a video to recruit them
Technology has come along way, have you? It may come as no surprise to you that a lot of companies today still use the good old classified ads to type essentially the same thing as everyone else, but with a video camera and little creativity you [...]
August 28, 2008
CareerBuilder Ends Video Resume Experiment
Little more than a year after introducing video resumes, CareerBuilder has discontinued the service. It was quietly taken offline in June.
The company won’t say how many jobseekers posted videos, but it seems the participation rate wasn’t high enough to warrant CareerBuilder’s effort. Job board spokesperson Jennifer Grasz told us, “We’re always testing the market with [...]
