When great poets see green leaves grow brittle and turn colors before they fall to the ground, they see the passage of time, and the slow ma...
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5 Ways to Refresh Your Outdated Network
When Steven Spenser, 52, was laid off from his Seattle-area software company in 2001, he decided to become a stay-at-home dad. Seven years l...
Why Blogging Is Good For Your Career
Right now, "microblogging" is the technological term du jour. Twitter this; Twitter that. For some reason, once somebody created a...
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La Maison de l'emploi du bassin d'Orléans organise une visite d'entreprise pour découvrir les métiers liés à la fabrication et p...
Day 6: Still here
I'm taking the day off from posting. I realized today I've been a little too much into myself lately and I've fallen behind on r...
10 Signs Your Interview Went Well
You did it. You landed an interview, dressed to impress, had great conversation and you think you might actually have a shot at getting a jo...
More Employers Screening Candidates via Social Networking Sites
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The past year has undoubtedly brought many changes and challenges to both employers and employees. Layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs have been...
10 Signs It's Time to Quit
"I like what I do. I just don't like where I work." Sound familiar? From unbearable co-workers to depressing work environments...
Playing Games at Work - How office politics sabotage the workplace
Have you ever found yourself wondering why there is so much politics in the office? And how this wrecks both value-creation and many a caree...
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In theory, etiquette is a way for everyone to express mutual respect for one another. In practice, it's a confusing set of arbitrary gui...
Day 5: I fell off the horse
After all my "look at me, I'm doing this!", I messed up last night. Actually, it was officially Wednesday morning at 12:30 a.m...
6 Steps for an Easy Return From Vacation
With summer here, workers across the country hope to take time off to enjoy some fun in the sun. But as some professionals often realize, co...
Social Media Pitfalls
As social media becomes the latest branding strategy, networking technique, job seeking tool and recruitment vehicle, it's also becoming...
10 Worst Work Habits
When two people fall in love, they only see sunshine and rainbows when they look into each other's eyes. If you asked, "What's ...
5 Workplace Whoppers We All Tell
Lying is wrong. As a child you learned this from your parents and teachers. It's even a commandment. Honesty is the best policy, most pe...
The Importance of Good Writing
If your grade-school education was anything like mine, lessons on parallelograms, subject-verb agreement and neutrons were met with a chorus...
What (Not) to Wear
If television sitcoms of the 1980s and 1990s are to be believed, every parent in America argued with a teenager who wanted to wear ripped je...