Job candidates with names that sound smooth and soft may have a surprising edge in the hiring process, according to a new study that explored how sound symbolism leads to hiring biases. Researchers at ...

For many computer science students, artificial intelligence makes it easier to take care of tedious tasks, but it can also make it harder to land a job. Senate Republicans face a surprise new Fed ...

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is forecasting “tough choices” in this fall’s federal budget, as the government reviews billions of dollars in proposed spending reductions that he ...

The U.S. job market is showing signs of stalling, a troubling trend for the economy that strengthens the case for the Federal Reserve to begin slashing interest rates. The Labor Department on Friday ...

• The latest employment snapshot from the Bureau of Labor Statistics paints a bleak picture of the current state of the economy under President Donald Trump. • Labor market deterioration: Just 22,000 ...

The BC General Employees’ Union is escalating job action on Thursday as it enters day three of strike action across the province. The union, BCGEU, says there is no indication that the B.C. government ...

The US job market is stalling out. Job growth slowed to a crawl in August, and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nearly four years, indicating the US labor market is growing stagnant.

One of British Columbia’s biggest public sector unions has issued a 72-hour strike notice after members overwhelmingly backed job action. “More than 34,000 members of the BCGEU working for the public ...

As expected, Edward Jones announced job cuts this week, laying off 259 home office associates in the United States and Canada, according to a statement from the company Thursday morning. Those layoffs ...

UPDATE — Sept. 2, 2025: B.C. public service staff launched picket lines in three B.C. cities on Tuesday, after the strike deadline expired. Some of B.C.'s 34,000 public sector workers will begin job ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...