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Who Owns Your Business-Related Social Media?

Jim Thomas | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Twitter, Social Media, Facebook, Linkedin, Employees Social Media, Employees, Company's Social Media, Employers, Social Media Tips, Corporate Social Media, Business Social Media, Social Media at Work, Businesses Social Media, Denver News
Jim Thomas

There is a time bomb in your company that you had better defuse. It's your failure to be clear about, or even consider, ownership of the business connections represented by social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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The Top 9 Things Employers Value In Recent Grads

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Experience Inc., Hiring Trends, Liberal Arts Majors, Internships, Engineering Majors, Finding a Job, Millenials, Employers, Job Hunting, Recent Graduates, Survey, Millennial Branding, Slidepollajax, College Graduates, College News

A new survey holds some good news for liberal arts majors. It has certainly been said that a liberal arts degree is impractical for this economic c...

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Undergrads Desperately Want To Work For These Companies

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Google, JPMorgan Chase, Walt Disney, Goldman Sachs, Apple, College Employers, Employers, Universum, Youth Unemployment, College Graduates, Business News

The jobs market may be changing, but the desires or America's undergraduates are not. New graduates appear to be entering an improving job market,...

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Why The Jobs Recovery May Not Be A Slam Dunk

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Job Market, Labor Market, Video, Unemployment, Employers, Labor Department, Economists, Unemployment Benefits, Jobs, Jobless Claims, Business News

WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits suggests hiring is slowing. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly...

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Spring Cleaning for a Speedier Economic Recovery

Joel Brokaw | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Economic Recovery, Workplace, Employers, Business Owner, Manager, Nancy Slomowitz, Hr, Human Resources, Business News, Accounting, Dun & Bradstreet, Management, Small Business, Work Zone Madness, Business News
Joel Brokaw

With the U.S. economy beginning to rebound, it is high time for businesses both big and small to get proactive and clean house of wasteful and counterproductive practices.

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U.S. Workers Aren't Using Their Vacation Days

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Vacation Time, Overworked, Holidays, Video, Workers, Profits, Travelling, Employers, Business News, Jobs, Vacation, Vacation Days, Business News

Wanna get away? No. Nearly half of American workers didn't use all of their allotted vacation days last year, according to a recent survey conduct...

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The Equal Rights Amendment: Now Is the Time

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Equal Rights Amendment, Supreme Court, Employees, Constitution, Employers, Romney, Blunt Amendment, Contraception, Santorum, Gingrich, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Do American women feel secure entrusting their entire legal protection to Justice Anthony Kennedy? Since Republicans took over state houses and the House of Representatives, they have waged an open war against women.

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Three Recent Surveys Offer a Snapshot of Today's Workforce

Susan Seitel | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Employees, Employers, Workplace Surveys, Health, Wellness, Business News
Susan Seitel

Three surveys of workers and managers released in late January offer some interesting information about today's workforce. In case you've had trouble ...

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You Won't Believe What Your Facebook Profile Can Do For You

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Aclu, Social Media, Job Market, Tech, Video, Employers, Facebook Profile, Business News, Jobs, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Business News

You might think a Facebook profile loaded with pictures of you holding red cups can lower your standing in the eyes of your boss. But now there's reas...

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Janell Ross

Workers' Right To Sue Employers In Flux

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Nlrb, Supreme Court, National Employment Law Project, Minimum Wage, Arbitration Agreements, Worker Rights, Employers, Labor Ready, Class Action Law Suits, Class Action Lawsuit, Laborready, Overtime, AT&T v Concepcion, National Labor Relations Board, Workers Rights, Business News

In 2010, Stephen Brown was living in York, Pa., and needed work. Most days Labor Ready, a temporary staffing company, had it. The company slogan highl...

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The Debate Over Elite Schools and Elite Jobs

Robert Teitelman | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Ivy League, Robert Teitelman, Elitism, Elite, Employers, Ivy League Schools, Job Recruiting, Business-Recruiting, Lauren Rivera, College Admissions, Elite Schools, Business News
Robert Teitelman

If you accept the research that higher socioeconomic status is the single greatest factor in academic performance, then Rivera is outlining a process that not only bakes in inequality, but deepens it over time.

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Perfect Attendance: Cold and Flu Season's Public Health Menace

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Layoffs, School, Germs, Flu, Cold, Perfect Attendance, Pink Slip, Teachers, Illness, Parents, Student, Employers, Education News
Dr. Caroline Cicero

Working while you are sick doesn't make you productive. Kids don't do well in school when they should be at home recovering, and their peers sitting next to them don't win either.

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Report: Private Sector Adds More Jobs Than Expected In October

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Labor Market, Video, ADP National Employment Report, Employers, Employment, Hiring, Jobs, Economic Recovery, Job Creation, Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, Business News

NEW YORK - U.S. private-sector employers added 110,000 jobs in October, beating economists' expectations, a report by a payrolls processor showed ...

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Planned Layoffs Steeply Drop In October

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Gray & Christmas, Video, Inc, Job Cuts, Employers, Hiring, Jobs, Economic Recovery, Job Creation, Challenger, Recession, Business News

NEW YORK - The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms dropped in October after hitting a more than 2-year high the month before, while seasonal p...

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The World's Most Attractive Employers

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Google, Attractive Employers, Unemployment, Employers, Universum, Ceos, Heineken, Jobless Claims, Business News

Of all companies in the world, it's Google that most often holds the enviable title of dream employer. Based on the opinions of 160,000 job seeker...

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How Companies Use Facebook To Hire And Fire

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Blogs, Linkedin, Twitter, Employers, Employment, Job Seekers, Social Network, Head-Hunters, Facebook, National Labor Relations Board, Business News

In an increasingly digitized world, roughly 45 percent of employers now reportedly use social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to scre...

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Earning Your Stripes: Internships & Business

Rise Birnbaum | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Internships, Interning, Employers, Zcommunications, Rise Birnbaum, West Coast, Unpaid Internships, Zpr, College News
Rise Birnbaum

With the job market really dry out there for newly-minted college grads, what's a kid to do?

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Hiring Prospects Improve Abroad, Hold Steady In America

Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Hiring Prospects, Manpowergroup, India, China Unemployment, Coming Quarter, Employers, Staff Levels, US Hiring, United States, Large Economies, Business News

NEW YORK (Nick Zieminski) - Hiring prospects for the coming quarter have improved in most large economies from three months ago, while holding ste...

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The 10 Companies Young People Want To Work For Most

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young Professionals, Corporations, Employers, Employment, Slidepollajax, Jobs, Job Security, Survey, Business News

The employer branding firm, Universum, recently asked young professionals for their thoughts on America's employers including which they'd most like t...

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Jobless Claims Fall To Lowest Level Since July 2008

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment Benefits, Labor Market, Jobless Claims, Employers, Great Recession, Reuters, Labor Department, Business News

(Reuters) - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell as expected last week, with the four-week moving average dropping to its lowest level in ...

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Unpaid Internships And The Jobless People Fighting For Them

Los Angeles Times | Alana Semuels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, US Economy, Internships, Unemployment, Unpaid Internships, Employers, Business News

Working for no pay isn't the preferred route out of unemployment, but it offers valuable experience and the inside track to jobs once they do open up....

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Can Social Media Get You Fired?

Lewis Maltby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Social Media, Linkedin, Twitter, Employers, Spying, Employee Rights, Lewis Maltby, Facebook, Privacy, Workers Rights, Business News
Lewis Maltby

Indeed, it can. You may want to think twice before posting about the horribleness of your job or your boss' lack of basic managerial skills.

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I Have Seen the Future of Business -- and It Is Small

Steve Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airplanes, Small Business, Entrepreneurs, High Tech, New York, Barack Obama, Australia, Employers, Exporter of Goods, Private Sector Workforce, Employer Firms, London, Business News
Steve Strauss

It used to be that big was big. But today, small is the new big, and the future of business is going to be what I just saw on that great plane ride: Small businesses going global.

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Laura Bassett

Employers Won't Hire The Jobless Because Of The 'Desperate Vibe'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Job Market, Unemployment, Employers, Discrimination Unemployed, Jobless, Job Interviews, Job Search, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Isang Inokon, a headhunter for Amherst Healthcare recruiting firm, posted a Craigslist job ad on November 18 for clinical pharmacists --...

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Proud to Support the Rule of Law and Immigration, Too

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Employers, Labor Rights, Illegal Immigration, Rule of Law, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Compromise, Visas, Immigration, Immigrants, Bipartisan, Border Security, Democrats, House Judiciary Committee, Legality, Republicans, Politics News
Rep. Luis Gutierrez

Following the no compromise, "law and order" approach to immigration -- as we have done for the last two decades or more -- has yielded a lot less law and a lot less order.

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