Smaller percentage of teens have summer jobs (Pew Research Center)

The percentage of teens with summer jobs was at 35% last summer, down from around 50% during the 1990s, according to an article by the Pew Research Center. Reasons for the decline, according to the article, might include fewer low-skill, entry level jobs; more students taking courses during the summer;...

Financial advisor most in-demand accounting/finance job; average salary $85,860

Professional staffing firm CyberCoders, part of ASGN Inc. (NYSE: ASGN), listed its most in-demand jobs for the accounting and finance industries in 2018.

Financial advisor, with year-over-year growth of 12.8% and an average salary of $85,860, ranks as the most in-demand job, followed by loan officer...

Total compensation for security-cleared professionals up 7% to $93,004

Total compensation for security-cleared professionals has risen 7% since 2017 to $93,004, according to survey data recently released by ClearanceJobs, a website for security-cleared jobs in the defense and intelligence industries.

Engineering ranks as the highest-paid industry with average compensation...

Consulting Solutions International acquires Florida-based IT staffing provider

Consulting Solutions International, a Tallahassee, Fla.-based IT staffing provider, acquired Meridian Staffing Services and Meridian Technologies, two divisions of the same company.

Meridian provides IT staffing, consulting, contingent labor and permanent placement staffing services for the commercial...

Report finds workers interested in picking up business-based gigs

A new subset of workers exists who have not yet participated in business-based gigs but have the free time and motivation to do so, according to the 2018 Profile of a Gig Worker Report released by on-demand staffing platform Shiftgig: well-educated, working part-time or full-time jobs but still...

People: Strategic Staffing Solutions, TalentNet, MDI, Cielo and Vector Talent Resources

Strategic Staffing Solutions, an IT and business services corporation based in downtown Detroit, promoted Vee Polite to VP of solutions. Polite will provide operational oversight for key accounts in S3’s customized solutions, one of its largest lines of business. Polite joined the company...

Canadian GDP edges up on spikes in manufacturing and real estate (Bloomberg)

Canada’s real gross domestic product edged up 0.1% in April from March, Statistics Canada reported today. This increase follows gains of 0.3% in March and 0.4% in February. Bloomberg reported Canada’s economy showed unexpected strength in April on a sharp pick up in manufacturing...

GDP estimate for Q1 gets downward revision; Q2 may have faster growth

Estimated first-quarter growth in real GDP for the US was lowered to an annual rate 2.0% in a “third” estimate released today by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Its previous estimate put growth at an annual rate of 2.2%.

MarketWatch reported that economists it polled had predicted the real GDP...

Lyft raises $600 million in funding round; now at $15.1 billion

Lyft raised $600,000 in a funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Co., the human cloud, ride-sharing firm announced in a blog post. Senator Investment Group LP joined Fidelity in the capital raise.

The company ranks as the third-largest business-to-consumer human cloud company based...

For millennials and Gen Z, it’s not just salaries

Millennials and members of Gen Z look beyond salary and benefits when considering a job, according to the report, “Employers, It’s Time to Grow Up: Engaging the Millennial and Gen Z Workforce,” released today by Allegis Group. Two areas of employer commitment rank high among millennial...