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February’s job market numbers easily exceeded economists’ expectations, providing a ray of sunlight in an otherwise dark news cycle weighed down by the worsening strife in Ukraine. Workers are wielding more power in a labor market characterized by shortages across industries. Employers added 678,000 jobs in February, far more than consensus estimates, signaling a tightening labor market. “It’s certainly a job seekers market at the moment,” CEO of Randstad Sourceright Mike Smith told… Source link

Less than a week after winning a Super Bowl and quickly returning to retirement, Eric Weddle has his next job lined up. Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego announced Saturday that outgoing football head coach Tristan McCoy will be replaced by the longtime NFL safety. The announcement via Facebook: It’s official! The 2022 football season will be coach McCoy’s last as the RBHS head coach. Coach McCoy has led the Broncos’ football program the past 11 seasons, and built a reputation of… Source link

Elon Musk.Picture Alliance/Getty Images The teen who went viral for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet got a job offer out of the saga. The New York Post said Jack Sweeney was offered work with Stratos Jet Charters. Musk previously offered Sweeney $5,000 to shut down the account and has since blocked the teen. The teen who went viral for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet on Twitter has gotten a job offer out of that pursuit. Jack Sweeney, 19, has been offered work with the Orlando, Florida,… Source link

The number of job openings and quits each held at historically elevated levels in December, with worker leverage remaining high as labor demand persisted.  Vacancies across the U.S. totaled 10.925 million at the end of 2021, the Labor Department said in its latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS). This compared to 10.775 million openings in November, according to the revised monthly print. Consensus economists had anticipated December vacancies would come in at 10.3 million,… Source link

June Jones wanted to return to Hawaii and lead the football program again. In fact, he still wants the head job. Jones, though, declined Hawaii’s offer to return and lead the program to replace former coach Todd Graham on Friday night. The terms, he said on Twitter, simply weren’t acceptable. “No coach in their right mind,” he said, would accept the job that was presented to him. Jones said on Twitter that he was only offered a two-year contract and hinted that he was going to be told… Source link

President Joe Biden acknowledged that a major problem facing Americans remains high inflationary pressures, but said Wednesday that a large share of the dilemma falls on the shoulders of the nation’s central bank. “A critical job in making sure elevated prices don’t become entrenched rests with the Federal Reserve, which has a dual mandate: employment and stable prices,” Biden said on the eve of the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. The price stability mandate is in flux, where the… Source link

The Los Angeles Lakers‘ braintrust is leaning heavily toward making coach Frank Vogel the scapegoat for their own failure to build another NBA championship-level roster around LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Vogel was “coaching for his job” during Monday’s victory against the Utah Jazz and will continue to be “evaluated on a game-to-game basis” going forward, according to The Athletic’s Bill Oram and Sam Amick.  In other words, Vogel could be fired any day now. The Lakers won the title just… Source link

Maddison Peel Less than a year ago, Maddison Peel was making $12 an hour at a Kentucky McDonald’s. One week after her TikTok of roasting a chicken went viral, she quit. Now, she makes up to $10k a month and has brand deals with Walmart, Heinz, and Kroger. Just under a year ago, 22-year-old Maddison Peel was working at a McDonald’s in Kentucky, where she was paid $12 an hour. Now, she says she makes between $5,000 and $10,000 a month by posting food recipes on TikTok. Better known by her handle… Source link

FedEx (FDX) is getting inundated with job applications in what continues to be a hot U.S. labor market characterized by increased job switchers. “Just the last week, we had 111,000 applications for FedEx. That’s the highest in our history,” said FedEx COO Raj Subramanian on an earnings call Thursday evening. “To put that in context versus what we say in May, that was 52,000.” The flood of applications isn’t a surprise as FedEx earlier in the year lifted hourly wages for package handlers to $20… Source link

Notre Dame is looking to stay in-house for Brian Kelly’s replacement. According to Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel, Notre Dame defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman is expected to become the team’s next head coach after going through the Irish’s formal hiring process.  Freeman came to Notre Dame from Cincinnati after the 2020 season and replaces Kelly after a year in South Bend. Kelly was officially introduced as LSU’s new head coach Wednesday afternoon.  According to Sports Illustrated, Freeman… Source link