By glassdoor.com, Posted Jun 23rd 2012 @ 10:12AM
By Vickie Elmer With the year almost half over, it's time to size up your progress. Your career may look like an amusement park, and you might feel like you're stuck in a line that's barely moving. Or maybe you rode one roller coaster only to see the other rides (goals) differently. Just how far along ...
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By Claire Gordon, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 4:29PM
Throughout August in Europe, shops are shuttered, offices empty, streets go quiet. The European Union requires that every worker gets at least four weeks of paid vacation a year, and many countries mandate six. An extra guarantee was added to that this week, when Europe's highest court ruled Thursday that ...
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By David Schepp, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 4:10PM
Growing demand for health services and declining productivity will result in millions more health-care jobs by the end of the decade -- regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules next week on "Obamacare," a new Georgetown University report shows. The demand for workers within the health-care industry is ...
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By U.S.News, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 12:39PM
By Miriam Salpeter When you land a job finally, the important work isn't over. It's essential to do your best to impress your boss and teammates right from the start. First impressions count; your supervisor and colleagues will judge you based on how you act and what you do from the very first day. It is ...
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By David Schepp, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 12:20PM
Jobs in engineering and computer technology have long had the stigma of being "nerdy" professions -- boring, and not particularly high-paying either. But that was before Facebook's first programmer, Dustin Moskovitz, became a billionaire, and Facebook and other tech companies began paying their interns ...
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By Claire Gordon, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 11:35AM
There may be no American organization more hierarchical, or that demands more unquestioning obedience, than the U.S. military. There is no person more powerful in this organization than the President of the United States. And there is no order more potentially devastating than to dispatch a thermonuclear ...
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By David Schepp, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 11:30AM
Job security used to mean working at the same company for a lifetime and retiring with a well-funded pension. These days, the concept of a secure job has morphed into something much more fundamental: one that's less susceptible to layoffs. That's obviously more likely if you're employed in an in-demand ...
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By Dan Fastenberg, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 9:14AM
"I am the only one. Again," the young black woman says, staring straight into the camera. And so begins a new, fictional web series about a black woman named Racey Jones working in an all-white office in corporate America, circa 2012. The first episode of the "The Unwritten Rules" shows Jones trying to shrug ...
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By AP, Posted Jun 22nd 2012 @ 8:48AM
NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana judge ruled Wednesday that thousands of New Orleans school employees were wrongfully fired after Hurricane Katrina shut down the city and its schools in 2005. Judge Ethel Simms Julien awarded more than $1 million to seven people who filed the class-action suit against the New Orleans ...
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