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25 January 2013 at 18 : 48 PM
Quick List – The Best Jobs in 2013
Not all occupations are created equal- that's why U.S. News compiled a list of the 100 Best Jobs of 2013. They took several factors into consideration, including employment opportunity, salary, work-life balance, and job security. The occupations that offer the best mix of these attributes land at the top of the list. Check out the Top 20 jobs for ...
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7 January 2013 at 22 : 27 PM
You Love Your Job, You Love it Not
You Love Your Job…You Love it Not How can you tell if you are happy at work? What symptoms could there be that would signal a problem? Sometimes it’s easy to miss those signs, which is why we have compiled two lists for you: Ten Signs that you are Happy in Your Job, and Ten Signs that You are Unhappy in Your Job. Ten Signs ...
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10 December 2012 at 19 : 47 PM
The Key to Landing that Hidden Job
Everyone knows that job-hunting can be exhausting. You spend hours online applying for every job you are remotely interested in, later realizing that you are competing with hundreds, possibly thousands, of other applicants for the same job. But then you get one of those LinkedIn update emails telling you that one of your contacts just landed a great ...
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17 September 2012 at 20 : 45 PM
Have Young Professionals Forgotten How to be…Professional?
Our culture puts a high value on the “personal right of individual expression”, especially for people in the younger generation. These teens and twenty-somethings are the emerging American workforce, and are increasingly wrestling with the boundaries of professionalism. In a recent article from TLNT, author Eric Chester discussed how this trend ...
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10 July 2012 at 13 : 02 PM
Learning to Listen: Lessons from a Young Lifeguard
Talent Management: from the beach to the boardroom A young lifeguard at a Florida beach, Tomas Lopez, was recently fired for saving someone’s life. Crazy, right? The lifeguard saw a person struggling in the water, and rushed in to save the distressed swimmer. Instead of receiving praise for his actions, he was promptly fired by management for ...
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28 June 2012 at 13 : 56 PM
#Hashtags to Use on Twitter to Find a Job
These days, social media powerhouse Twitter gives us tons of information in concise, 140-characters–or-less “tweets” all day, every day. Many of these tweets are from employers, looking for a free way to post job openings at their companies. These employers often use certain hashtags as a way for other Twitter users to search and find their Tweets. ...
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18 June 2012 at 20 : 47 PM
4 Things to Consider When Hiring
It’s important to have a multi-faceted process when hiring someone new; basing your decision only on how someone performs in an interview just isn’t enough these days. In order to ensure that you are getting a qualified candidate, it is usually a good idea to consider the following 4 things: Testing: Results from aptitude or personality tests ...
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26 March 2012 at 19 : 52 PM
Employers Forcing Job Applicants to Hand Over Facebook Passwords
What Employers Are Doing In the past few months, an increasing number of employers have been demanding access to job candidate’s social media pages as a requirement in the application process. Facebook has seen what it calls a “distressing increase” in the number of people being asked to give employers their passwords over the past few ...
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27 February 2012 at 20 : 27 PM
What’s Trending in HR?
The following is a short summary of this Houston Business Journal article from John W. Allen. Here’s what HR experts are talking about in 2012: • How to cope with an HR crisis. Case in point: the scandal at PennState. HR must act quickly to address situations where an employee’s misconduct threatens the reputation of the company. There ...
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16 January 2012 at 09 : 47 AM
Does Sports Culture Sweep Harassment Under the Rug?
On Dec 21, a former female employee of the Golden State Warriors filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against star player Monta Ellis, alleging that Ellis sent her unwanted text messages, including explicit photos. In the lawsuit, Erika Smith alleges she received dozens of explicit messages, sometimes several times a day, during 2010-2011, when she worked in ...
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