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Issue 11:2, Monday, February 1, 2010
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Contents:
1. Message from the Top
2. 2010 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award Recipients
3. Subsidy for Health Coverage Creates Confusion
4. VetJobs Recommends – 4Troops
5. Veterans Saluting the Flag
6. National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of January 26, 2010
7. Significant Events this Month in Military History
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1. Message from the Top
The WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Awards were announced last week and I am pleased to announce that VetJobs is a recipient of the 2010 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award (www.weddles.com)! This award marks VetJobs not only as one of the top 30 job boards out of 50,000 career sites on the Internet, but one of only eight job boards that have received this prestigious award seven years in a row! Your votes have confirmed once again that VetJobs is the leading military related job board and one of the top career sites on the Internet! The staff of VetJobs wants to personally thank all of you who voted. We appreciate your support and will continue to work hard to earn your votes again for the 2011 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award.
See article 2 below for the thirty recipients of the 2010 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award. The eight elite sites who have received the award for all seven years are: CareerBuilder.com, DICE.com, EmploymentGuide.com, Execunet, HotJobs, Monster.com, Net-Temps.com and VetJobs.com. I congratulate these eight sites as they are the cream of the employment web sites on the Internet.
In addition to the WEDDLE’s award, this past year VetJobs was selected as the leading military site by Reader’s Digest and BusinessWeek. These are incredible achievements for a niche job board and reaffirms again that VetJobs is the leading military related job board on the Internet and that employers want to hire veterans!
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On Sunday, February 14, we celebrate Valentine’s Day! Be sure to remember your special person.
On February 15 the country celebrates President’s Day. The original purpose of President’s Day was to honor Washington and Lincoln, but it is now the day we honor all of the presidents who have served the United States.
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Over the past two weeks I was twice interviewed on FOX Business News. The interview on Monday’s Scoreboard with David Asman was particularly good. For those who did not see it, here is the link:
http://video.foxbusiness.com/#/v/3986350/helping-vets-get-jobs/?playlist_id=87066
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On the economic front, the country is getting mixed signals. According to the Department of Commerce, the U.S. economy grew at the fastest pace in six years during the fourth quarter of 2009, even as consumer spending and business investment remained tepid. Real gross domestic product increased at a 5.7% seasonally adjusted annual rate in the final three months of the year. However, 3.4% of the growth came via the swing in inventories which were severely depleted. Growth just to replace inventories is not sustaining growth that creates jobs. But even with healthy growth in the second half of the year, the overall economy shrank 2.4% in 2009, the worst drop since the 10.9% decline in 1946. It was also the first annual decline since 1991. We have had two growth quarters, which technically means the recession is over, but things are still tough.
The mixed signals are hopeful, but not sustaining as unemployment still remains high at 10% and many predict unemployment will increase. Most economists point out that the REAL unemployment rate is 17% to 20% when you add in those who have dropped out of the workforce or are working part time jobs to make ends meet. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com, and Bill Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock, agree that the economy would have to grow roughly 5% for all of 2010 which would equal 3 million net new jobs just to ratchet down the unemployment rate for the year by 1%. Yet even optimists think the creation of just 1 million net new jobs is probably out of reach for 2010 given the current administration’s policies. That means the unemployment rate is not coming down anytime soon. High unemployment poses a risk to a recovery because it leads consumers to spend less, keeping economic growth weak. Too sharp a pullback in spending might even push the economy back into recession.
The bottom line is the country is not going to make significant progress and reduce unemployment until small businesses start hiring. The economic history of the United States has been that small businesses are what led America out of every recession over the last 100 years. Roughly 80% plus of new jobs come from small businesses and 60% plus of all workers in the United States work for a small business. But small businesses are not hiring because they are scared by the activities of this administration!
While the administration has proposed a small business hiring tax credit, such a move means nothing to small businesses. They cannot spend a tax credit to hire new employees! Small businesses need cash. Until the administration takes significant steps to improve the economy, we are going to be stuck just like in 1932 when Hoover made bad decisions that kept the United States in the Great Depression while the rest of the world moved forward. The same is happening today. The rest of the world is now out of the recession but the United States is going deeper.
If the administration is serious about moving America forward, it would be doing the following:
1. Work on lowering taxes
2. Work on freeing up the capital markets to start lending
3. Work on reducing the size of the federal government
4. Work on reducing onerous federal regulatory and reporting requirements
5. Quit trying to force the healthcare bill in its current form and move toward tort reform to improve the healthcare process in America
6. Quit having the federal government take over businesses, and
7. Support free enterprise.
Time will tell. In the meantime, there are millions of people out of work with no real prospect for a job!
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Finally, please keep the victims of the Haiti earthquake in your prayers. A good way to help is to contribute to CARE at www.care.org. Every time there is a major tragedy, the United States is the first on the scene with substantial relief. And it is it our military that has led the way in providing assistance!
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As always, if there is anything we at VetJobs can do for you, please do not hesitate to call or email. Feel free to share the Early Eagle with other employers!
And remember, Freedom Is Never Free – Support Our Armed Forces and Veterans!
Best regards,
Ted Daywalt
President
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2. 2010 WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award Recipients
For the last seven years, WEDDLE’s has been conducting year-long ballots of human resource personnel, recruiters and job seekers to determine which employment-related sites they like best. The balloting is open to all and covers all job boards and career portals, including those operated by commercial enterprises, associations and societies, trade organizations, college and university alumni organizations and affinity groups.
The WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award is unique. It is the only award recognizing job boards where the winners are picked not by pundits and so-called experts, but by the actual users of the job boards. As there is no higher accolade than to be recognized by one’s users, the WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award is highly coveted by the winners. These 30 recipients are simply the best employment sites on the Web!
The 2010 recipients are: 6FigureJobs.com, Absolutely Healthcare, AfterCollege.com, AllHealthcareJobs.com, AllRetailJobs.com, CareerBuilder.com, CollegeGrad.com, CollegeRecruiter.com,
Dice.com, DirectEmployers.com, DiversityJobs.com, EmploymentGuide.com, Execunet, GetTheJob.com, Hcareers, HealthCareerWeb.com, HEALTHeCAREERS Network, HotJobs, Indeed.com, Job.com, JobFox.com, Jobing, JobsinLogistics.com, Monster.com, Net-Temps.com, SimplyHired.com, SnagAJob.com, TheLadders.com, TopUSAJobs.com and VetJobs.com.
Of the 2010 recipient sites, eight have won this coveted award all seven years. The top eight recipients are: CareerBuilder.com, DICE.com, EmploymentGuide.com, Execunet, HotJobs, Monster.com, Net-Temps.com and VetJobs.com!
The 2010 winning sites break out as follows:
· 19 are niche sites that specialize in a particular career field, industry, geographic location or personal attribute;
· 11 are all-purpose sites that serve job seekers and employers in a wide range of professions, crafts, trades and industries;
· Among the niche sites, 4 focus on healthcare, 3 serve recent college graduates and/or alumni, 3 specialize in senior level workers, and 2 serve special affinity groups within the workforce (DiversityJobs.com and VetJobs.com).
· Among the niche sites, 6 industries are represented: healthcare, retail, information systems, hospitality, logistics and staffing.
3. Subsidy for Health Coverage Creates Confusion
Bill Leonard of SHRM reports that times are tough for unemployed Americans who are receiving a federal subsidy to help pay for their health care coverage. The subsidy, which pays 65 percent of the monthly premium for COBRA-provided coverage, began running out for many on December 1, 2009. Unless the law changes, workers who lose their jobs after December 31, 2009 will not be eligible for the popular program. The two dates—combined with conflicting news media reports on when the subsidy ends—have left many employers confused. The issue becomes more complicated as Congress grapples with a proposal to extend the subsidy for six more months, even though the payments have ended for many unemployed workers who began receiving the benefit in March 2009.
The key date that employers need to be aware of, according to officials with the U.S. Department of Labor, is December 31, 2009, when eligibility for the COBRA subsidy program expires. Any person who loses their job through no fault of their own on or before that date will qualify to receive the COBRA subsidy. Even that date isn’t completely ironclad because eligibility to receive the subsidy hinges on a person’s health care coverage. If, for example, a worker is terminated on December 31 but is covered by his or her employer’s health plan until January 1, 2010, that worker would not be eligible for the COBRA subsidy. The COBRA subsidy program was included in the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress in February 2009.
4. VetJobs Recommends – 4Troops
Four powerful American voices come together for one important cause – to support the American veteran and honor their sacrifices through song. 4TROOPS are not only seasoned vocalists, but also United States combat veterans that served on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan. The CD includes a collection of patriotic and uplifting songs designed to entertain and spread their positive message to all serving troops, veterans and American citizens who are inspired by them every day. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of 4TROOPS products will benefit charities that support American veterans. For more information, visit http://www.4troopsmusic.com/. You can contact 4Troops with questions, comments and suggestions at 4troops@sonymusic.com
5. Veterans Saluting the Flag
Section 594 of the National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law as Public Law 110-181 on Jan. 28, allows veterans out of uniform to salute the flag.
Section 9 of Title 4, United States Code, was amended by striking “all persons present” and all that follows through the end of the section, and inserted the following: “All persons present in uniform should render the military salute. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute. All other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over their heart, or if applicable, remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Citizens of other countries who are present should stand at attention. All such conduct toward the flag in a moving column should be rendered at the moment the flag passes.”
6. National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of January 26, 2010
The total number currently on active duty from the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 112,553; Navy Reserve, 6,988; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 16,604; Marine Corps Reserve, 6,392; and the Coast Guard Reserve, 771. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel who have been activated to 143,308, including both units and individual augmentees. A cumulative roster of all National Guard and Reserve personnel who are currently activated may be found at http://www.defense.gov/news/Jan2010/d20100126ngr.pdf.
7. Significant Events this Month in Military History
1763 – Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War in Europe
1778 – The American frigate Ranger carried the Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France
1795 – Navy Supply Corps established
1813 – The American ship USS Hornet sank the British sloop HMS Peacock in an action off the coast of Guiana (north coast of South America) during the war of 1812
1836 – Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began his siege of the Alamo Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas.
1863 – General Joseph Hooker organized the Army of the Potomac
1863 – The Confederate ship Nashville was destroyed by the Union ironclad vessel USS Montauk on the Ogeechee River in Georgia during the American Civil War
1865 – The battle of Petersburg (American Civil War)
1898 – The battleship USS Maine was sunk following an explosion in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
1916 – The German Fleet was given orders to attack armed Allied merchant ships without warning during WWI.
1916 – Beginning of the battle of Verdun, in France, which lasted ten months (WW I)
1917 – British intelligence intercepted the “Zimmerman telegram,” sent to the Mexican government by the German foreign minister, promising Mexico that the lands taken from it by the U.S. during the 1846-1848 war would be returned if Mexico entered World War I on Germany’s side and the Germans won. The message was promptly relayed to the U.S. Government
1942 – A Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast of California, shelling the coastline near the town of Ellwood.
1943 – Women’s Marine Corps Auxiliary established.
1943 – The German Afrika Korps defeated American forces during the battle of Kasserine Pass, in Tunisia (WW II)
1944 – Beginning of the German Army offensive against the Anzio bridgehead in Italy (WW II)
1944 – U.S. Marines seized Parry Island from Japanese forces, completing their takeover of the Marshall Islands in the Central Pacific (WW II)
1945 – U.S. Marines began the invasion of Iwo Jima in the Western Pacific (WW II)
1966 – Operation White Wing, a search and destroy mission during the Vietnam War.
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