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16 things you should remove from your resume
By Amanda Augustine An eye-tracking study by TheLadders found that the average recruiter spends only six seconds reviewing a resume before deciding if it’s worth a closer inspection. When you only have six seconds to make the right impression, you … Continue reading
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Tagged employment, job search, jobs, money, resume, resume tips
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How Credit Checks Keep Black People Unemployed
By Charles D. Ellison When New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that his office had cut a deal with the three big credit bureaus—Experian, Equifax and TransUnion—to improve the customer experience, the news shook the financial-services world … Continue reading
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Tagged credit, credit check, discriminaton, employment, Equifax, Eric T. Schneiderman, Experian, jobs, money, TransUnion, unemployment, United States
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Résumés: Whats in and whats out in 2014
By Susan Ricker On “Project Runway,” Heidi Klum often declares, “One day youre in, the next day youre out.” While shes referring to fashion, the cyclical nature of trends extends to résumés and job-search tactics as well. And if your résumé style is out … Continue reading
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Tagged career, employment, job, job search, resumes
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Minimum wage fight erupts: Landmark $15/hr. wage sparks legal showdown
By Josh Eidelson Following a county judge’s ruling dramatically narrowing the scope of an airport town’s landmark $15 wage law, labor groups plan to take their case to the Washington state Supreme Court. “The legal issue in front of the … Continue reading
Temporary Work, Lasting Harm
By Michael Grabell, Olga Pierce, and Jeff Larson This was it, he told his brother Jojo. He would finally be able to pay his mother back for the fender bender, buy some new shoes and, if things went well, maybe … Continue reading
The Awful Service Jobs Replacing Skilled Labor
By David Atkins We already knew it anecdotally, of course, but a new MIT studyadds further weight to the notion that outsourcing and mechanization are turning previously well-paying skilled jobs into low-paying service jobs: The widening chasm in the U.S. … Continue reading
Congress Got 239 Days Off This Year, Workers Are Guaranteed Zero
By Bryce Covert Congress has just eight days on the job between now and the start of the next session on January 7, with the House coming back on Monday and adjourning for the year by December 13 and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Annual leave, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, employment, Finland, Greece, Norway, Sweden, vacation, worker benefits
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Why Jobs Go Unfilled Even in Times of High Unemployment
By Amy Sullivan Skills for America’s Future, a policy initiative run out of the Aspen Institute, was created in 2010 as a spin-off of President Obama’s Jobs Council and was originally led by longtime Obama supporter Penny Pritzker. With Pritzker now … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspen Institute, employment, job training, jobs, skill, unemployment, United States
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Jerk perks: 5 secret benefits of having a difficult boss
By Robert Half International A difficult relationship with your boss can make every aspect of your work more challenging. It’s a tough situation, but it’s not necessarily a hopeless one. Yes, in cases of true ineptitude or incompatibility, it might … Continue reading
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Tagged boss, business, career, employment, job, leadership, learning, management, Robert Half International, work
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Higher wages won’t increase unemployment!
By Emily Chong Fast food workers are going on strike from New York to Seattle to demand higher wages, highlighting the never-ending controversy over the consequences of raising the minimum wage. Many news stories seem to suggest that economists have … Continue reading
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