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Super Bowl XLII Ads Sell Well Despite Economy: Pepsi, CareerBuilder In, GM Out (VIDEO)

Wall Street Journal | Stephanie Kang and Suzanne Vranica | Posted 09.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Pepsi, Gm, Super Bowl Ads, Economy, Careerbuilder, Super Bowl Commercials, Nbc, Anheuser-Busch, Business News

Marketers may be tightening their belts amid the economic downturn, but you'd never know it from the sale of Super Bowl ads. The National Football Le...

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Stuffy Office Environment

Christine Hassler | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Baby Boomer, The Balanced Life, Workplace, Gen Y, Careerbuilder, Career Advice, Work-Life Balance, Twenty Something, Work Environment, Culture, Living News
Christine Hassler

Baby-boomers did not grow up with messages like "work should be fun" and "be passionate about your career." To them, a job is a job.

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Is a Messier Desk Better?

CareerBuilder.com | Kate Lorenz | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Office Organization, Careerbuilder, Messy Desk, Living News

You've got multiple stacks of paper on your desk (not to mention the heaps slyly hidden under your desk), indiscriminate piles of books on your shelve...

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How Not To Dress At The Office

CareerBuilder.com | Kate Lorenz | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Office Attire, Work Clothes, Careerbuilder, Living News

kin. Everyone has it. And one glance at TV, movies and magazines reveals how much people love to flash it. It's true that showing some skin on TV may...

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Why Shy People Make Great Networkers

Posted 02.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Preparing for the Holiday Season, Tips for Coping With Shyness, Tips for Shy People, Shyness, Careerbuilder, Home News

My advice is to embrace shyness and use it to your advantage. Shy people often make the very best professional networkers.

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What To Do When You Feel Like A Loser

Posted 02.22.2008 | Home

Read More: The Full Life, Twenty-Something Advice, Twenty-Something Problems, Quarterlife Crisis, Careerbuilder, Home News

Dear Christine, At 27, I'm still living at home, unable to find a real job after graduating from college last year, single and consistently dumped, a...

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Unhappy at Work? Ask Yourself These 7 Questions

CareerBuilder.com | Heather Mundell | Posted 02.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Search, Unhappy at Work, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

You're sitting in another agonizing meeting and glancing at your watch. "I can't believe what a waste of time this is," you say to yourself. "I've got...

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From Bonuses To Gifts: How To Handle The Holidays At Work

Posted 02.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Office Etiquette, Office Life, Christine Hassler, Office Politics, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Tips for Holiday Season, Careerbuilder, Home News

During the Holiday season, the lines of giving and receiving gifts can become a little blurry at the workplace especially since everyone holds different positions with different salaries.

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How To Change Old Habits

Posted 02.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Work-Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Productivity, Careerbuilder, Home News

I've noticed that one of the hardest things for people to do is to change what they're doing to something better to be doing, when there's nothing rea...

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Beware Of Background Checks

CareerBuilder.com | Laura Morsch | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Search, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

So, you swear you have nothing to hide? That's a good thing these days, because more likely than not, your potential employer will be digging into you...

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Can You Be Your Own Boss?

CareerBuilder.com | Robin Ryan | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

Many of us fantasize about owning our own companies. Nearly one million new businesses are launched each year, but more than 85 percent will close wit...

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Six Questions For Saving Second Entrepreneurs Marisa Lee and Liana Guzman

Posted 02.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Breast Cancer, Susan G. Komen, Liana Guzman, Fundraising, Marisa Lee, Start-Ups, Saving Second Base, Careerbuilder, Home News

While raising funds and forming meaningful relationships with individual and corporate donors has certainly presented its own set of difficulties, finding people who share a passion for our mission, and whom we can trust to represent and effectively run our organization has been our greatest challenge.

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Workplace Taboos: Are You Guilty?

CareerBuilder.com | Rachel Zupek | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Workplace Taboos, Careerbuilder, Office Taboos, Living News

Ever think there's shady stuff goin' down in your office? Be thankful you don't work in "The Office's" Scranton, Penn. branch of Dunder-Mifflin. The h...

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The Boss-To-English Translator

CareerBuilder.com | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Search, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

A parody on "must-have" office handbooks, "Cube Monkeys: A Handbook for Surviving the Office Jungle" by The Editors of CareerBuilder.com and Second Ci...

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Getting Ahead by Going Abroad

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan and Perry Yeatman | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Careerbuilder, Living News
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan and Perry Yeatman

Why pound the pavement in Peoria when you can be strolling in Paris?

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Curing Interruptitus

David Allen | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living

Read More: David Allen, The Full Life, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Job Search, Careerbuilder, Living News
David Allen

I often get this question/pushback as I'm teaching: "All this personal productivity methodology sounds fine and good, but what about all those interruptions that plague me during my day?"

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Quiz: Are You the Office Party Animal?

CareerBuilder.com | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Quiz, Career Advice, Careerbuilder, Living News

A parody on "must-have" office handbooks, "Cube Monkeys: A Handbook for Surviving the Office Jungle" by The Editors of CareerBuilder.com and Second Ci...

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How To Deal With The Jerk At Work

CareerBuilder.com | Mary Lorenz | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Search, Jerks at Work, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

If you've never encountered a jerk or a bully at the office, you should consider yourself one of the lucky few. According to Stanford University prof...

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10 Things You Should Never Do at Work

CareerBuilder.com | Mary Lorenz | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Advice, Career Advice, Job Search, Careerbuilder, Living News

From the e-mails we "forget" to return to the voice mails we "never received," telling little white lies has become a very real part of our workplace ...

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Business is Personal and Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise is Lying

Nataly Kogan | Posted 02.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Gender Roles in Business, Investing, Women in Business, Venture Capital, Job Search, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Business News
Nataly Kogan

Business is all about being personal. It's both the most exciting and the most excruciatingly difficult part of being an entrepreneur. But do women take business more personally than men?

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Feeling Good About What You're Not Doing

David Allen | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Careerbuilder, Stress Reduction, Getting Things Done, David Allen, Living News
David Allen

From my experience, a majority of the stress most people feel comes from not too much to do, but from broken agreements with themselves. You can fool ...

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How Volunteering Helps Your Career

CNN | Posted 02.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Volunteering and Career, Volunteership, Volunteering, Careerbuilder, The Giving Life, Volunteers, Living News

As more employees see volunteer work as a way to learn new skills or move their careers forward, volunteering has become a sort of corporate benefit. ...

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7 Famous Career Switches

CareerBuilder.com | Kate Lorenz | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Change, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

So great is the number of celebrities who try to make the transition between movies and music or modeling and acting that the trend has become somewha...

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5 Tips For Changing Careers

CareerBuilder.com | Kate Lorenz | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Change, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

Have you been feeling like it's time for a big change lately? Do you get the sense that your career is not the right fit for you? If you're feeling ...

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Is a Work/Life Balance Realistic?

CareerBuilder.com | Robert Half International | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Change, Careerbuilder, Job Hunt, Living News

Striking a balance between professional and personal commitments is a common dilemma for many of today's workers. Lean staff levels and rising workloa...

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