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Five Steps to Having a Productive Month

Mar 27, 2011

Five Steps to Having a Productive Month

Maybe all of your days tend to go smoothly. You're good at getting up on time, doing your work, and making sure that you relax. The problem is, you feel like things are not quite adding up. On a day to day basis, things are pretty good - but month-by-month, you don't feel like you're making progress.

1. Appoint a Job Search ‘Buddy’

Mar 25, 2011

10 Ways to Turn Your Job Search into a Full-time Job

Well-known fact: Job searching and being unemployed can be one of the most discouraging and ego-smashing things a person could ever experience. Rejection is common, and there is a tendency to end up in a very unhappy place.

How Effective is Your Resume?

Mar 18, 2011

How Effective is Your Resume?

As a job seeker, you have a resume and you send it to every possible job opening you can find. You make sure every recruiter in town has at least one copy on her desk. It's posted in six places on Monster.com and four places on CareerBuilder.com. You hand it out like those guys hocking strip-show fliers on 5th Avenue in New York City.

Construction workers install windows on 29th floor of One World Trade Center tower in New York as construction continues

Mar 17, 2011

Career Change from the Construction Industry

I am 55 years old and I've been working for a construction company for 25 years. The recession has hit us hard, and I don't think the company can survive. I've been thinking, "Where do I go from here?" I don't think I want to work in the industry any longer, but I haven't even thought about looking for a job, or doing a resume, for 25 years.

A view of the Nassau County office building sign in Mineola

Mar 17, 2011

Nassau County, NY, proposed budget includes layoffs

The head of New York's Nassau County on Wednesday proposed across-the-board budget cuts and layoffs in order to meet $121 million in spending cuts that he said are needed to bring the budget back into balance. County Executive Edward Mangano said cutting spending was the only way to comply with the state overseer's demand.

A passing surfer is reflected on the window as voters cast their ballots from inside a beach front polling place in the Los Angeles County lifeguard station in Hermosa Beach

Mar 17, 2011

California voters souring on public pensions: survey

More California voters believe public employees' pension benefits are too generous than they did two years ago and a majority support steps to rein in their costs, according to survey results released on Thursday. At the same time, California voters oppose -- by a margin of 50 percent to 42 percent -- linking efforts to tackle the state's.

Contractors board up a sign in front of an office building located inside the security zone before the upcoming G20 summit in Toronto

Mar 17, 2011

Canada boosts productivity but still lags U.S.

Canadian businesses squeezed more out of their workers last year than in any year since 2005, but they remained less competitive than their U.S. counterparts as Canada's strong currency pushed up labor costs. Productivity -- a measure of how much is produced for each hour worked -- rose 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter of last year.

Children participate in a spelling drill at Eagleview Elementary school in Thornton, Colorado, March 31, 2010.

Mar 17, 2011

Florida set to replace teacher tenure with merit pay

Florida lawmakers gave final legislative approval on Wednesday to a bill aimed at replacing teacher tenure with a merit-based system, in the latest clash between a U.S. state government and public employee unions. By an 80-39 vote, the Florida House approved largely along party lines a Republican-backed measure that would.

A protester dressed as a panhandling Uncle Sam stands in New York's Time Square

Mar 17, 2011

States, cities face more rating cuts: Moody's

U.S. states, cities, towns and other issuers of municipal debt likely will suffer more credit downgrades than upgrades in 2011, with the overall outlook negative for the third straight year, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday. Reasons for the gloomy prediction include the still-fragile economic recovery the end of the federal stimulus plan.

Mar 17, 2011

Talks on Spanish wage accord drag on

Spain will give unions and businesses more time to reach agreement on unhooking salaries from inflation, Labour Minister Valeriano Gomez said on Thursday, signalling further delays to a final accord on wages. A reform to de-link wage increases from inflation is the Spanish government's next move to convince markets of the country's.

1. Salary (27 percent)

Mar 13, 2011

Five biggest lies in Resume exposed

Recently, a survey conducted by Forensic Psychology found that 31 percent of people lie on their resume. Research culled by Jobacle suggests that the number may be as high as 43 percent.

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Feb 11, 2011

Top 5 Habits to Achieve Entry-level Career Success

Achieve career success at the entry-level with these 5 tips. I am blessed to have some of the best bosses coach me when I first entered the working world. They passed to me what seemed like, at that time - pretty obvious things one would do when in the working world.