| Give Candidates “A Day in the Life” |
| What sounds good on paper can sometimes be completely different in action. For candidates, this might mean a job that sounds ver... |
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| Battling Society's Cancer Unemployment |
| The official figures are staggering: 35% of the workforce - about 280,000 people - are unemployed and looking for a job. Each 1.... |
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| 5 Interviewing Mistakes That Can Lead To Hiring The Wrong Person |
| Mistake #1: Going with the flow
Inexperienced interviewers sometimes fall into the trap of letting the interview become "fre... |
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| Seven Key Tax Deductions for the Self Employed |
| As a sole proprietor, it*s wise to familiarize yourself with the some key deductions that may reduce your tax bill for 2004. Sma... |
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| 5 Simple Rules for A Great Job Interview |
| Many years ago, when I was a young job-searching greenhorn, I ventured to New York City to take a bite out of the big apple of o... |
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| 7 Tips for Writing Winning Resume Cover Letters |
| Writing a good resume cover letter is something you should seriously consider when preparing to send off your resume to potentia... |
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| Are you in AWE of your Employees? |
| Employers have become so concerned about seeming “unfair” or worse becoming the victims of lawsuits by unhappy ex-employees that... |
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| A New Job Opportunity |
| HR Lady stared at me across the desk. She was trying to size me up, to understand what makes me tick. I had explained that I wan... |
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| A New Look at Labor Day |
| A day to reflect on the accomplishments of working people: That's been the proud tradition since the first, unofficial, Labor Da... |
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| No Degree, No Problem |
| According to a recent survey, 52% of job candidates polled lied on their resume about having a college degree.
Here are 3 br... |
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| Disaster Prevention Tips For Hiring A New Manager |
| It happens over and over in businesses every day.
Within large companies, people are promoted to management positions to rew... |
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| Great Interview Skills |
| Going for a job interview can be a harrowing experience. The reasons are varied: A job applicant may not have the necessary rele... |
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| Employers - Protect Yourself from Custody Battles that Hold Your Company Hostage |
| Child custody? How'd that get to be an employer's concern?
When an employee faces child custody litigation, it will effect t... |
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| Find a Job in a Fast Growing Field Using Labor Market Information For Your State |
| The question confronting most people who want to find a job is "what's a good paying job with growth potential?"
At one time... |
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| Five Essential Hiring Practices |
| Recruiting and hiring are often done in haste, leaving the company to repent in the long run. Today, there’s a reason to be conc... |
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| Get a Job! Tips for Organizing Your Resume |
| Whether you're a Vice President of Marketing or a recent college grad, your resume is the 'key' to opening the doors of employme... |
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| Get Paid to Shop And Keep Everything You Buy Without Having to Pay |
| Can You Tell Good Service From Bad; Recognise Value For Money; Compare Prices, Staff Efficiency, Product Range, Customer Service... |
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| Gracefully Accepting Feedback a Key Employment Skill |
| With the long-term trend of protecting employees' individual self esteem added to an overriding concern over expensive employee ... |
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| DAIRY MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK FOR 2004 |
| “Two years ago the phone rang off the hook with recruiters calling all the time, it has been a long time since I had a call from... |
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| Make Your Career Offshore Proof |
| There has been a lot of talk recently about American jobs moving overseas…offshoring is the buzzword for it. During difficult ec... |
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| Get In The Game With a Stellar Resume |
| During the job hunter's market of the 1990's, employers were settling for less than qualified candidates because the candidate p... |
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| It's a Training Issue! |
| There’s a common phrase used by Organizational Development and Human Resource professionals, when identifying kinks in the growt... |
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| How to Work Effectively With Recruiters |
| “R-E-S-P-E-C-T / find out what it means to me” is a line made famous by Aretha Franklin, and one that recruiters have adopted as... |
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| How To Prevent Your New Manager From Becoming A Statistic |
| According to a study by the Manchester Group, 4 out of 10 new managers fail in the first 18 months! The top 5 reasons cited:
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| How to Identify a Problem Solver |
| As an executive recruiter, I interview a lot of people. And while most candidates find a way to look good on paper, their resume... |
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| How to Hire the Right People |
| One of the biggest challenges any business owner or manager has is hiring the right people. I've recently discovered a simple, i... |
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| How to Attract and Retain the Right People |
| If you’re one of the many executives struggling with finding and keeping the right people to propel your business forward, you’l... |
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| Dressing Tips for Interview Success |
| Dressing appropriately for job interviews is one of those areas that puzzles some people.
Should you dress conservatively or... |
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| How Do You Put a Value on Your Time |
| As a small business owner, does the following paragraph sound familiar to you…?
“Other than doing the technical ‘fix-its’ wi... |
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| Building A Sales Force That Pays For Itself |
| The elements involved in building a sales force, especially one that pays for itself and also adds value to any business, are ma... |
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| Home Typing Scams! |
| "Home Typing Scams" are one of the highest ranking work-at- home scams on the Internet according to leading Internet fraud watch... |
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| How To Choose The Right Resume Format |
| After a thirty (30) second glance lots of resumes get thrown into the wastebasket. One of the reasons this happens is because th... |
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| Job Hunting Tip: Organize Your Attack |
| Looking for work is an energy-devouring ordeal, often leading to running in circles and not getting anywhere. A systematic appro... |
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| My Job Rocks |
| When was the last time you heard someone say that? More importantly: When was the last time you said it?
Sadly, too few peop... |
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| Kick-In-The-Pants Job Search |
| Believe it: three obstacles will hold you back from your ideal job -- your résumé, you, and your job-search methods. There’s no ... |
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| Managerial Malpractice Claims on the Rise |
| Protect Your Assets and Executives with D&O Insurance
(ARA) - When disgruntled shareholders, employees, customers or competi... |
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| Managing Stress - Hire the Right People |
| Managing stress is not easy if you don't have the right people in your business or team.
One of the biggest challenges any b... |
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| Monday Morning Mindfulness 08/23/2004 |
| Welcome to Monday Morning Mindfulness . . . to my Clients, Colleagues and Friends. Join me every other Monday in getting motivat... |
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| Health Insurance, medical insurance and individual health insurance plans. |
| Health insurance is something that everyone needs today. The rising cost of visiting a health care provider or a hospital stay m... |
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| Customer Service and Call Center Outsourcing, What's The Buzz? |
| The buzz is all about customer service and call center outsourcing, also known as BPO (Business Process Outsourcing). According ... |
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| New web-based HR tool is "Max" from NAS, Hannibal, and InfoLink. |
| Three highly respected names in Human Resources have joined forces to provide companies with a revolutionary blend of services t... |
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| Now, Do You Have Any Questions? |
| “Who is that hot babe in the picture?” isn’t the type of reply an interviewer expects to hear when he or she invites you to ask ... |
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| Hiring and Retaining Good Employees |
| Hiring good employees is not only important to business, it’s essential. Employees are the heart and soul of a business; they ar... |
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| Take This Job and...Re-staff It |
| Deciding to leave a job isn’t easy. In fact, quitting a job requires courage, especially in today’s soft economy when the unempl... |
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| Waiting For the Official Job Offer |
| At the end of the third job interview, Helene was told by the hiring manager, “Congratulations, I am going to recommend you for ... |
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| The Good the Bad and the Ugly Employee and Management Owned Firms |
| Margaret Thatcher started a world trend during her tenure as Prime Minister is Downing Street. It is called: Privatization. It c... |
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| Outsourcing Problem Analysis |
| As an HR professional, you have responsibilities in several broad areas that have a significant impact on your company’s bottom ... |
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| Protecting the Tax Advantage of Your Deferred Compensation |
| The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 imposed strict new rules on non-qualified deferred compensation plans. Beginning in 2005,... |
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| RecessionProofing Employee Motivation |
| (ARA) - As we hear more predictions of an economy showing signs of weakening, managers around the country are asking a couple of... |
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| Relocation Issues...Who Will Pay? |
| In light of recent unemployment figures, and a continual downturn in the labor market, many unemployed professionals are finding... |
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| Resolving Workplace Conflict: 4 Ways to a Win-Win Solution |
| The effects of conflict in the workplace are widespread and costly. Its prevalence, as indicated by three serious studies, shows... |
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| Resume Success FactorsWhat Exactly Is A Resume Anyway |
| You know you're good...real good. The problem, though, is that you are struggling to demonstrate just how good you are on paper.... |
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| Resume Writing and Preparation is Free Online |
| Creating a strong resume is a very important part of applying for a job, either online or off line. There are many resume writin... |
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| Questions To Ask Employees You Want To Retain |
| Times of cost cutting and downsizing has dramatically impacted the way employees look at their careers. Employees at all levels ... |
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| So, Why Don't You Tell Me About Yourself? |
| "So, why don't you tell me about yourself?" is the most frequently asked interview question. It's a question that most interview... |
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| Self Promotion Is Easy and Fun |
| Stop thinking of marketing in the traditional sense of advertising – the thousands of ads interrupting your day via mail, spam, ... |
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| ThankYou Notes An Integral Part of Your Career Design |
| There is one little practice that is vital to generating the interest of potential employers. It is critical, but very few job s... |
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| The Executive Resume - Moving Beyond Accomplishments |
| There is a major difference between conventional resumes and executive resumes. Accomplishments are usually the center point of ... |
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| Should You Lie On Your Resume? |
| Warning: Lying on your resume could cost you your job and your freedom.
Picture this. You’re sitting at your desk working aw... |
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| Outsourcing – A Positive Approach For Small Businesses |
| Outsourcing is the strategic use of outside resources to perform activities traditionally handled by internal staff and resource... |
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| There's No Need to Pad Your Resume |
| It seems like a good idea, harmless in fact. Your friends assure you that everybody does it and that employers rarely check resu... |
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| The Biggest Employment Change of All Becoming an Entrepreneur |
| For many of us, change can be a scary thing. When we are children, there is nothing better than meeting new friends and going to... |
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| Three Steps to Writing Your Own Resume |
| While most professionals hire a professional resume writer, some draft their own resume. People who write a lot for business usu... |
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| Using The Internet For Job-hunting |
| The Internet is a very useful tool for job seekers as it is a great source of information. Also, taking into account of a more w... |
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| Build Your Business (on a shoestring): Hire a College Intern |
| Starting up a new venture or business can be one of the most exciting times of your life. It can also be one of the most stressf... |
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| Smart Choices: How to Hire the Best |
| Your organization’s continued growth and success depend on making smart choices and hiring the best. Today’s economy is explodin... |
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| The Not-So-Effective Cover Letter |
| Here’s a newsflash: Cover letters work, plain and simple. This is why I’m intrigued by the fact that a) jobseekers rarely submit... |
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| The Job Loss Myth |
| Presidential candidate John Kerry is fond of stating that “... not since Herbert Hoover has any president lost more jobs than Ge... |
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| So Where Do You Fit In |
| Many of you reading this are working full-time, with a dream to eventually leave your job for complete independence from home. S... |
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| The Morality of Child Labor |
| From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as thei... |
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| To Outsource or Not to Outsource |
| In these days of restricted head count and tight budgets, the question of whether to outsource or hire in-house staff is more cr... |
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| The Organized Job Search |
| Many people, under financial or other pressures to find work quickly, feel they can’t afford to take the time to get organized. ... |
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| The Right Way To Send Your Resume |
| Having a great resume is the first critical step in a successful job search. Unfortunately, most people don’t know the best ways... |
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| The True Cost of Self-Employment |
| Do you think you are ready to make that leap to full self-employment? The profit from your part-time (up till now :-) business i... |
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| The Wages of Science |
| In the United States, Congress approved, last month, increases in the 2003 budgets of both the National Institutes of Health and... |
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| To Grow Out Of Unemployment |
| There is a connection between economic growth and unemployment. There is a connection between growth and inflation. Therefore, c... |
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| The Interviewable Resume |
| It is rumored that the only word William Shakespeare wrote on his resume was “Available.” We’ll probably never know if that is t... |
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| What To Ask Before You Hire Security Services For Your Buisness |
| Most business owners never think about what they security need for, they just want to know how much it will cost them! This has ... |
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| Traveling for An Interview? 10 Tips to Get You From Here to There |
| You’ve just been granted an on-site interview in another town. Hurray!
This means you’ll be traveling to an employer’s locat... |
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| Why and How to Work with a Consultant |
| A good consultant provides specialist abilities and experience, innovative ideas, second opinions (reality checks), unbiased app... |
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| What Your Employees Want You to Know (But You Might Be Afraid to Ask) |
| This is a challenge for every company owner and manager. You have tremendous plans for growth and expect a lot of your employees... |
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| What Consultants Want You to Know (But You Never Ask) |
| I’ve been both a CEO and a consultant, so I’ve seen from both perspectives what goes right and what goes wrong when a consultant... |
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| Rules for Simplified Employee Pension Plans better known as a SEP Plans |
| A SEP is a special type of IRA. Under a SEP plan the employer creates an IRA account for each eligible employee, hence the name ... |
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| Virtual Assistance Higher Productivity |
| Running any office can be challenging, even in the best of circumstances. Whether the company is a small business or a large cor... |
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| Nuts and Bolts of Effective Cover Letters |
| As a job seeker, you shouldn't overlook the importance of a cover letter. If written strategically, a cover letter increases you... |
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| Virtual Assistance; A Money Saving Opportunity For Employers. |
| What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is a highly skilled, independent entrepreneur who provides business services in... |
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| When Bad Interviews Happen to Good Candidates |
| Going through the motions of a bad interview is like peeling back the layers of an onion. Sally learned this lesson the hard way... |
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