To friend, or not to friend: That is the workplace question
A couple of new surveys released last week illustrate how the rise of social networks like Facebook are affecting the way we relate to co-workers or job candidates.
First, Menlo Park temporary services agency OfficeTeam commissioned a survey that found
'Job clubs' are surging in popularity
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Members of Seacoast Peers for Careers, a career empowerment group, meet weekly at St. John?s Methodist Church in Dover as a way of staying positive while they look for work. Amy Russell, left wearing blue, shows the group her binder
Job 'guarantee' suckering some into a big fee
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Like many job-hunters, Jim Sterns pored over the want ads for re-employment opportunities. He thought he'd found it in a listing for a warehouse job.
But after he paid a $195 job-search fee -- and despite the job "guarantee" he was
Even with cruel choices, cities can sustain libraries
RESIDENTS IN the cash-strapped city of Fitchburg are living in a bibliographic tundra with just 21 hours of weekly library service and no borrowing privileges in many neighboring cities and towns. Fitchburg is an extreme case, but it offers a chilling
Adding Insult To Injury: Online Scams Target Jobless
When Claude Vera responded to the customer-service job opening he saw on the online-classified site Geebo.com in February, it seemed like one of a hundred small acts that might get him back to work.
Most of his e-mail messages to
Best-sellers ? Publishers Weekly list through Aug. 15
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6. ?The Eleventh Victim?? ? Nancy
Social service providers twist in the wind as politicians talk and talk
-- While Gov. Ed Rendell and state lawmakers have spent the past nine weeks squabbling over the long-delayed state budget, Elza Taylor has tried to figure out how she'll run her state-subsidized day care without the money she relies on from Harrisburg.
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People Plus People Equals Business to Business: Networking event presented by Lori A. Levine, with guest speaker Robert H. Hurlbut, chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the New York State Insurance Fund. Free food; cash bar. 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 25.
New aid for job-seekers
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Mercyhurst College offers refresher courses to alumni
For the better part of the past two decades, Monica Smith worked as a manager in Pittsburgh's retail industry. But in April 20
Q&A: H&R Block's Robert Turtledove
...to people's hearts and lives and their families. You come from a food and beverage and, most recently, executive job search background. How will these experiences help you out in this role? On the restaurant side, a couple of things. . . . The restaurant service...
