Nickname: Overtime

Review: Hard to find a job where they'll pay you what you're worth. I have 20 years experience in outside sales along with good sales training, 4 year degree. I've even started my own business and sold it. A few want me - but either pay pennies or straight commission: for me to build up their territory, profits for little pay. I wish companies would hire younger, go through several like running water before companies learn that it's worth a larger investment for stability and seasoned experience.

Date reviewed: Jul 17, 2007 8:09 PM

Nickname: college grad

Review: As a recent college grad, it?s amazing to see that unemployment is low, and yet the majority of my friends and myself have trouble finding jobs. seems like the vast majority of us took the wrong road, yes we have the degree, but because of the lack of experience we can not get the jobs we went to school for. this causes us to go into jobs that are not even close to our degrees, take me, for example. I have a degree in healthcare administration, and yet I work retail sales because I need 3-5 years experience to get an entry level healthcare position. what employers need to do is stop the false advertisements of jobs claiming they are entry level while requiring 3 years exp. 40k per year is great out of college. Lower the pay and take on the kids for a change. most of us would kill for a job that payed 32-35, but we take other positions that pay even less because no one is willing to do on the job training anymore

Date reviewed: May 8, 2006 8:43 PM

Nickname: liberty

Review: With unemployment below 5%, nobody is worried about weekly jobless claims in the hundred-of-thousands, we already know employment is strong. Payroll employment isn't even the indicator that counts the strong entrpreneurial and freelance job growth. But, better news is the strength of wages - US wage growth is at a 5-year high. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/334ba9cc-dc34-11da-890d-0000779e2340.html

Date reviewed: May 6, 2006 11:25 PM

Nickname: Numbers

Review: Weekly jobless claims published every Thursday are a real indicator of the U.S. job situation. Since I started tracking these numbers it runs over 300,000 per week which translates to over a million a month. Why does anyone want to even report a monthly payroll growth of 200,000 or anything less than a million? Also, for me it is not the number of jobs that matters, but the average or the median pay of the new job created.

Date reviewed: May 5, 2006 7:51 PM