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Women in the workplace
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Think looks don't matter? Think again
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What's hot, what's not?
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Jobboom Index
Québec 47,5 %
Employment situation
Unfavorable
Ontario Unavailable
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Jobboom
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January 10, 2010 Edition |
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Focus on
2010 job market forecast
There is cautious optimism in the Canadian job market: Less people are afraid of losing their jobs and more hope to improve their fortunes. In the United States, new jobless claims have dropped to levels close to those of summer 2008, hinting at an American recovery. Still, Canada’s lost manufacturing jobs will not return to previous levels. Instead, future job growth in manufacturing will be in more specialized forms.
When will your company be hiring again?
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Media Watch
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Workplace challenges
Women in the workplace
Women’s economic empowerment is the largest social change in recent times. At some point this year women will outnumber men in the American workplace.
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Personal advancement
Think looks don't matter? Think again
Sad but true: Thinner, taller women receive more promotions than their peers. So stand tall, show positive body language and update your look for your next interview – it may work wonders.
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Career options
What's hot, what's not?
Jobs in the service sector, like computer system design, health and professional services are hot. Those in manufacturing are not.
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Jobboom Poll |
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When will your company be hiring again?
- Our company never stopped hiring
- The hiring has already started
- Within the next three months
- Within the next six months
- Within the next nine months
- At the end of 2010
- In 2011
- Who knows?
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Job flicks
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How are you greening up your office?
An intrepid reporter, Lindsay Smith, takes to the streets of Vancouver’s Gastown to ask passersby what they are doing to help the environment at their jobs. Answers vary from no plastic bags and recycling drink containers to taking alternate transportation and using both sides of a sheet of paper.
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