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Still No Sign of a Double-Dip Recession, Says Adecco CEO

September 3, 2010

The U.S.

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David Isenberg: Taking the Private out of PMC

August 30, 2010

The most important word in the phrase private security contractors is “private.” If and when someone working for a PSC does something wrong the company, depending on the offense, may very well fine him, ship him home, and fire him. But they will do nothing more

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Aaron Shapiro: The Great App Bubble

August 26, 2010

When I recently received my new iPhone 4, I took great delight in organizing my apps into folders, finding new apps in the app store, and seeing how beautiful various apps looked on the new screen. Then I used it for a couple of days and realized, not counting pre-loaded Apple software, I use exactly five apps: the New York Times , Dropbox, Pandora, MenuPages and Skype. Why am I wasting time collecting and organizing all these apps?

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Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: Approaching a Recruiter – Don’t Do What He Did

August 24, 2010

The other day we received a wacky cover letter. It’s the type of bizarre letter we receive a few times every year.

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Liz Ryan: Will My Consulting Experience Hurt My Job Search?

August 20, 2010

Dear Liz, I have a total of 13 yrs of professional experience ranging from companies like Accenture to Consulting positions and Corporate roles. The only gaps in my employment history are two lay-offs from past years. I am beginning my job search as my current company is begining to down-size and showing signs of cash constraints.

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Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: They Took My Ideas and Gave Somebody Else the Job

August 19, 2010

We met over coffee with a Director of Sales who told us of a recent experience he had interviewing at a company. He went through several rounds of interviews and by all accounts he was headed for an offer

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Liz Ryan: Can You Steal an Introduction?

August 16, 2010

Dear Liz, I worked for four years with a woman who has a personal relationship with one of the most visible business leaders in my city (he owns a bank and has huge real estate holdings etc). She used to talk about him and how they grew up together in a rural area near here. I found the gentleman on LinkedIn and sent him an InMail message saying that I am friends with his friend “Ann” and letting him know about my new business

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11 Best Cities To Find A Job: Juju’s Index (PHOTOS)

August 13, 2010

If you’re hunting for a new gig, and the phrase “willing to relocate” is included somewhere in your resume, keep in mind that some cities are much easier to find a job in than others. A job applicant in San Jose, for instance, competes with 8 fewer unemployed people for a job advertised online than an applicant in Miami, according to Juju, a leading online job search engine that scours thousands of employer career portals, recruiter websites, and online job boards.

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Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone: What’s On Your Career Bucket List?

August 12, 2010

You may remember the hugely popular 2007 movie ,”The Bucket List” starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman about two terminally ill men who decide to do all of the things on their wish list before they “kick the bucket”. For many of us, there is a similar bucket list of things that we want to do in our career before we retire.

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Video: Thompson Says Google May Create Facebook Competitor: Video

August 11, 2010

May 6 (Bloomberg) — Nicholas Thompson, a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks with Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt’s plan to double the anticipated pace of acquisitions this year. Google, the search engine with almost two-thirds of the U.S.

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