The Job Hunt
Our weekly look at employment openings with salaries of $100,000 or more.
The federal government plans to add an average of 95,000 jobs to the economy each month, but according to a report released last Thursday by the White House, even with these new positions, the unemployment rate is expected to stay at or above 8.2 percent until after 2012. It's tough out there for job seekers, especially since there are 14.8 million people who remain unemployed. Each week we scour several job boards—including Indeed, Vault, and Yahoo HotJobs—to help track the best employment listings with salaries of $100,000 or more. This week's picks:
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Nancy Cook is a staff writer for Newsweek and Newsweek.com, covering business and economics. In 2010, she and a team of two editors won the New York Press Club Award for Best Business Reporting on the Internet for their seven-month multimedia project called “Jobbed: How America Works Now,” which examined the future of work, careers and the labor market as the country emerged from the recession.
Cook has written about the way the stimulus money affected a single neighborhood to luxury retailers thrilled by record Wall Street bonuses to accounts of rank-and-file employees whose careers were turned upside down by Lehman Brothers’ collapse. She also has reported on politics and economic policy for Newsweek.com’s national affairs blog, focusing on the intersection between Washington D.C. and Wall Street.
Prior to coming to Newsweek, she worked as a producer on the 2008 presidential campaign at National Public Radio and as an on-air reporter for WRNI, the Rhode Island NPR affiliate. There, her enterprise and feature reporting on a lackluster urban school system and a federal lawsuit against the state child welfare agency earned her two regional Associated Press awards. She graduated from Carleton College and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she now teaches as an adjunct professor.
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