75,000 jobs in 1 day

Jan. 27, 2009
Job cut announcements are coming fast and furious.‚  By some counts, companies just yesterday announced 75 thousand job cuts.‚ ‚ Locally, Caterpillar said it was slashing its work force by 20,000.‚  Home Depot, Sprint Nextel and Texas Instruments also announced layoffs.‚  Today, Corning said it woul

Finding work on-line

Jan. 22, 2009
There are all sorts of on-line job search engines out there--anyone have any favorites?‚ 

United announces 1000 additional job cuts

Jan. 21, 2009
UAL--based here in Chicago--announced today it will cut 1000 jobs in 2009. That's on top of the 1500 cuts it announced in 2008. No word yet on if and how many of those cuts might be local. UAL release Do you work for United? What's the mood there? Let us know.

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