Permanent Job Proves An Elusive Dream
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"Contingent" deals transform the nation's workforce, not only for temp workers, but also for those in traditional jobs who are competing with employees receiving lower pay and few benefits.
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By Tim Mekeel, Lancaster New Era, Pa.  Feb. 23--Bill Wydra Jr. wasn't ready to leave. Not just yet.    Around him, the job fair in Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology's gym  was winding down.    Students were filing out, company brochures in hand.
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Never before has the dream of owning a home been realized so widely.
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For some job seekers, a trip to a  virtual world may hold the key to an actual job.
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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The District is in an economic boom. But some neighborhoods have struggled with double-digit unemployment for decades despite programs that have tried to help residents get jobs.
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Despite ongoing hardships, the retailer shows glimmers of opportunity.
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By Gardner Chris  Tomoko Ishijima held on to her dream of working on a dairy farm when a Japanese farmer hired another worker instead of her.
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BERLIN Claudia Windisch is just one of many East Germans looking for a job. Yet finding work as an architect, never easy in the best of times, has proved difficult for Windisch, 25, who graduated from college last March in her native Saxony.
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The most dynamic, future-oriented industries are having trouble finding qualified employees.
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SHANGHAI -- Sheng Huizhen's life story is typical of immigrants who succeeded in America. After getting her PhD in biochemistry, she landed a job as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health. She got a green card, bought a house in Maryland and worked her way up to visiting...
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Tired of combing the Net for the right tech job? A start-up says its program can do it--and better than online job boards.
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At 26, many people havenÂt even decided on a career. Luke Ravenstahl is already the mayor of Pittsburgh.
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He knew he had this in him, from the time he was a little boy in bare feet in the Dominican Republic, yearning to play shortstop, dreaming of becoming an NBA star, fantasizing about crushing home runs out of major league parks. Some dreams simply don't come true.
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Like many job seekers, Wayne Hochberg is tired of trying to figure out why he wasn't hired.
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The number of people out of work is on the rise, but a record number of people now have jobs.
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But his resume goes far beyond dollars and cents, business acquaintances said. He&#39;s a living embodiment of the American Dream.