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Norman City Council passes lean budget

Otto — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:31:03 +0000

Norman City Council members tonight passed a budget that temporarily, at least, saves 26 jobs from being eliminated.Read more on NewsOK.com Read more

Disappointing jobs report sends stocks tumbling

Otto — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:00:26 +0000

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply Friday after the Labor Department said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis.Read more on NewsOK.com Read more

Maggie Thatcher said it some years ago “The trouble with socialism is that, eventually, you run out of other people’s money”. That’s what’s happening in Europe and it’s where we’re headed here.

Southeastern Oklahoma counties top unemployment rate

Otto — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:31:05 +0000

Southeast Oklahoma once again has the highest rates of unemployment in the state, but for the first time since December 2008, the jobless rate of all Oklahoma counties dipped below 10 percent last month. According to statistics released Wednesday by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, Hughes, Latimer and McCurtain counties shared the state’s highest jobless rate at 9.9 percent. All three counties were above 10 percent in March. Oklahoma’s statewide unemployment rate in April held steady at 6.6 percent, still well behind the national rate of 9.9 percent. Three Northwest Oklahoma counties had the lowest unemployment rates — Beaver (3.2 percent), Harper (3.6 percent) and Dewey (3.7 percent).Read more on NewsOK.com Read more

Jobless claims rise by largest amount in 3 months

Otto — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:31:51 +0000

Well, it may have been “unexpected” in DC, but no where else

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week by the largest amount in three months. The surge is evidence of how volatile the job market remains, even as the economy grows. Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 471,000 last week, up by 25,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the first increase in five weeks and the biggest jump since a gain of 40,000 in February. The forecast was for claims to fall by about 4,000 from the previous week. “Although no one expects this volatile …

White House urges education spending be included in war funding bill

Otto — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:00:26 +0000

As teachers statewide are hearing their contracts may not be renewed, the Obama administration urged Congress to include $23 billion in emergency spending in a war funding bill to help states save education jobs.Read more on NewsOK.com Read more

What does this mean for jobs? Is there an opportunity here for you? Why is your state short of money for schools? All of these questions are part of your process to get to where you Never Look Again!

EU crisis revives memories of ‘08 crash

Otto — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:31:11 +0000

Just as the U.S. economic recovery was starting to gather momentum and create an impressive number of jobs, a new threat emerged last week with the European debt crisis exploding onto U.S. markets. The stock market’s wild gyrations, while abetted by little-understood technical and trading irregularities, were eerily reminiscent of the turmoil in the fall of 2008 when a credit crisis spawned by the collapse of Lehman Brothers for a time brought down the whole global financial system and economy. Despite last week’s tremors, economists do not expect such a drastic, cascading response to the spreading debt crisis in Europe. …

Jobs up 290,000 in April; jobless rate 9.9%

Otto — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:31:09 +0000

Read the following and then think about the fact that the bulk of the hiring was temporary government jobs. Now, how do you feel? Is that progress?

UPDATED: The economic recovery strengthened and produced jobs for a fifth straight month in April, with the pace of job growth picking up to 290,000 from 230,000 in March, the Labor Department reported Friday morning. With new jobs now available for the first time in two years, thousands of discouraged job-hunters surged back into the labor force looking for work, driving up the unemployment rate to 9.9 percent from 9.7 percent. The labor force increased by 805,000 as people resumed their job search work, but only 550,000 of the job-hunters reported that they found jobs in the department’s survey of …

Unemployment falls in a majority of U.S. cities

Otto — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:36:26 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates fell or remained level in three-quarters of the 372 largest metropolitan areas, a sign that the economic recovery is widespread. The Labor Department said Wednesday the jobless rate dropped in 69 percent of metro areas last month from February. It rose in 24 percent of large cities and remained the same in the rest. That’s an improvement from February, when the unemployment rate decreased in 51 percent of metro areas and increased in one-third. The report follows other recent encouraging news about jobs. Employers added 162,000 jobs in March, the government said earlier this month, …

Hiring Expectations For Some Security Jobs Are Too Much

Otto — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:43:48 +0000

Is There Such Thing As An Unfillable Security Job?

Yes there is. Over the past couple of years and more specifically since the first bank failure in 2008, many security jobs have surfaced that realistically can’t be filled

When was the last time you ran into an information security professional who had expertise in SAP Security and Identity Management? Sure, there is someone out there who has this unique mix of difficult to find skill sets but can you imagine filling such a job for $75,000 in Southern California? Seriously, I received a call and a job description like this from a company in Southern California within the past 12 months.

Information Security Threats are not diminishing. However, companies are doing what they can to hire fewer people to protect their digital and intellectual property. They’re rolling the dice. When you see a job description that asks for so many skills that you find yourself thinking you’ve just read 3-5 job requirements, there is nothing wrong with your eyes. Employers today are regularly trying to get more for less when they hire.

Recently, a Security Architect professional called me and shared a story of his face-to-face visit to an employer to discuss a Security Architect position. On the East Coast,in a high cost of living location, this Security Architect is earning in the $150,000 range. In the city where he invested his time to fly to for an interview, the employer wanted him but wanted him for a salary of $85,000. I wasn’t involved in this recruiting process. This hire didn’t happen.

I’ve researched this employer and the position the security job candidate interviewed for. The security job is designed to consolidate the work of several security skilled professionals into one role and it is severely underpriced for the market where the company does business. Unless the hiring expectations change, the job will go unfilled or the employer will have to compromise significantly to get someone on board.

Sometimes, employers simply don’t know how to build security job descriptions. Sometimes they build a strong description but then they hang the wrong price tag on the description. I’m convinced that there are many times when a job description is created out of the ashes of 3+ older descriptions connected to 3+ people who are no longer with the company. What the employer is trying to do in this case is to get the job done through one person without paying for the skills of three people. Looks like a roll of the dice to me.

Whether current hiring trends are right or wrong isn’t my argument. What I’m sure of is that information security professionals today have to become well-rounded and deeply skilled if they’re going to have a chance of matching up to the expectations many employers are placing on the cyber security job candidates and technology risk management job candidates they choose to interview.

Details On How A Blacksmith Creates Designs From Iron And Steel

Otto — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:43:42 +0000

There are lots of crafts nowadays which involves the actual development associated with new points. A blacksmith is really a individual who styles as well as forms points fromiron and steel by using various resources within forging steel. From period immemorial blacksmiths lso are known to create structures, weaponry, horseshoes, furniture and other things which some of us might have utilized. The actual developing of items even involves the craftsmanship of a blacksmith. It’s very incredible how they can perform and create materials out of what they are doing. The key blacksmith info will help you appreciate the thing of beauty that they can perform.

The blacksmiths work through placing the metal in order to extreme heat till it melts in to some thing which may be easily formed with the use of hand tools such as sludge hammer as well as chisel until it’s designed according to the maker’s wishes. Blacksmiths of today are using blowtorch for heating system however they ensure the right heating temperature is enough to create the metal gleam as well as prepared with regard to smiting. That’s the reason generally, these people perform within darkish suites or locations wherever lights are slightly dimmed. There are lots of ways where a blacksmith creates its way using the iron and steel.

To begin with, blacksmiths functions the actual manner of forging where these people sludge hammer the actual steel to form things. Along with this sort of method the actual blacksmith can perform a lot of things using the iron and steel. They can draw steel by lengthening it by decreasing the thickness but including this to the duration. They could also do the change through diminishing the duration but adding more using the thickness. If you use correct tools, they can additionally forge alloys by twisting all of them after they are melted. Styles may also be done with the use of pounding method where openings could be created.

Blacksmiths additionally use into create welding wherein these people join jointly exactly the same kind of steel. Welding is a very hard as well as difficult method however for some experts it can be simple. This really is due to the fact that you need to consider that there will be no international materials as well as element that can interrupt the joining from the metals. It needs quick overall performance and methods when the steel is placed within extreme fire.

The last procedure is the finishing technique where according towards the blacksmith info is the final touches to generate the required result. Different methods are usually carried out both in order to touch up, smoothen or roughen a particular metal based on exactly what it will likely be employed for. It is finally finished so that something new could be formed according to the use of the material. The metal’s appearance could be transformed or formed till it’s totally developed.

Fundamental essentials amazing techniques a blacksmith will using the iron and steel. It’s very intriguing how they can help to make different designs from the raw materials associated with metal. This build really needs commitment as well as passion since it requires a lot of patience to do and strength in order to remain in front of the warmth based on how several hours.

The iron and steel are usually 2 of the raw materials utilized by the actual blacksmiths. With their genuine skill with this build, they can produce results which are very helpful in order to all of us today or even design masterpieces from a piece of metal. Really essential and interesting details about blacksmiths can be examine from http://www.BlacksmithInfo.com.