Employment Stats 10/8/09

Weekly Jobless Claims (Seasonally Adjusted), Week Ending 10/03 (reported 10/08) 521,000
Weekly Jobless Claims Change from Previous Week (seasonally adjusted) -33,000
Payroll Employment (Nonfarm Jobs Created or Lost), September -263,000
Unemployment Rate, September 9.8 percentPut Content Here.

This Week in HR: A Vigorous Push From Federal Regulators By Vault

A Vigorous Push From Federal Regulators
The Obama administration is taking on Cheerios. And popular cold remedies and swimming pool drains and rhinestones on children's clothing.

With much of Washington focused on efforts to revamp the health care system and address climate change, a handful of Obama appointees have been quietly exercising their power over the trappings of daily life. They are awakening a vast regulatory apparatus with authority over nearly every U.S. workplace, 15,000 consumer products, and most items found in kitchen pantries and medicine cabinets. The Washington Post

New Study Reveals How Firms Are Preparing to Retain Workers as Economy Improves
The silver lining in a lousy economy is employee retention, but as economic prospects brighten, most firms are thinking about ways to retain talent, according to the latest study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) on the subject of organizational turnover and engagement. But that doesn't necessarily translate into big raises for most employees, who have seen few pay raises of late. HRM Today

No-Match Rule Dropped, Obama to Focus on Other Strategies
The Department of Homeland Security has published a final rule that rescinds the Bush administration's controversial No-Match Rule.

The No-Match Rule identified steps employers should take when they receive a "no-match" letter that indicates an employee's name and Social Security number provided on W-2 Forms failed to match the Social Security Administration's records. The rule outlined how an employer can be protected by a safe harbor, such as terminating an employee with a mismatch if the discrepancy wasn't resolved after a certain period of time. HR.BLR.com

New From Vault! By Vault

3 Tips For Harnessing Your Best Energy For A Job Interview
by Caroline Ceniza-Levine

As a former recruiter I have seen too many candidates start their best interviewing 15 minutes or more into a job interview! By this time it's too late, and the impression has been sent that you are lackluster, not interested or otherwise not qualified for the opening. Instead, you need to arrive at the interview with your energy already at its peak in the reception area. Here are three tips to ensure that, whether you stubbed your toe on the way in, squeezed through the worst traffic or just got up on the wrong side of the bed, you can still perform at your peak for that key job interview:

Listen to an uplifting song during your commute. It doesn't have to be the theme from Rocky, but it needs to be something that sets the upbeat, positive tone you will need to get you pumped for the interview.

To read the rest of Caroline's tips on landing the job of your dreams click here.

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