Career Purgatory

The SMART bus system officially had $12 million budget cuts today.  The biggest things affected are the route schedule and loss of 120 jobs in…Read more

General Motors has been quietly cutting staff at its headquarters in Detroit. CEO Akerson saind in a June Detroit News interview that  “Literally, we have…Read more

Today the US Army is cutting 8,700 jobs through a mix of strategies like early retirement, attrition and buyouts.  The cuts affect workers in 37…Read more

A majority of our readers are in Michigan no doubt from our great MARVIN coverage which you can find here.  Not everyone these days that…Read more

Citigroup announced it would cut 4,500 jobs or 1.5% of its global workforce.  This follows on the heels of previous bank headcount reductions at UBS…Read more

Something that may be lost on many job seekers is that the job crisis is not just taking place in the United States but it…Read more

It has been a while since we have added someone to the ranks of Career Purgatory.  It seems that the Detroit Lions player Ndamukong Suh…Read more

A key job training facility for Detroiter’s Focus Hope was given a $1 million grant from MEDC to continue jobs training efforts. The group had…Read more

You may have heard that this week the unemployment rate (U-3) decreased today to 8.6 percent.  Well allow us to turn a fan on and…Read more

With the clock ticking as usual Congress has been working to extend unemployment compensation for millions of unemployed Americans. Wall Street Journal Some of the…Read more