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Employers Preparing for Post-Recession Job Market
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...
Professional Etiquette You Don't Think About
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...
Chiffres clés - Année 2009, n 3
Voici le 3ème numéro de l’année 2009 des « chiffres Clés » produit par l’Observatoire de la Maison de l’Emploi du bassin d’Orléans. Dans ce ...
Day 4: Finding inspiration
I had a really horrible post written in my head for tonight, it was negative and depressing and one of those "woe is me, my life sucks&...
Saying No to Your Boss
When you think back to your childhood and your mom said, "We'll see," it was always better than a flat out, "No." Mu...
How Did You Get Laid Off? Real workers share their layoff stories
You got laid off and now you're unemployed -- so are 13.7 million other people. Several of Greg McGunagle's family and friends were ...
12 Workplace Phrases You Probably Don't Know ... But Should
Getting along with people sometimes requires speaking their language, especially in the workplace. One of the ways employees try to emphasiz...
Working Moms Feeling the Pressure of Parenthood and the Economy
A mother's work is never easy, and for a mother who works outside the home, things are especially tough this year. In these trying econo...