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Before you fill out that March Madness bracket…
Published: 03/11/2010
Are you excited for March Madness? More excited than everyone else you know? Want to bet on it? Before you answer that, you should probably check your company’s guidelines first.
Workers across the country are researching stats, crunching numbers and calling their ESPN-addicted cousins in order to fill out their March Madness brackets. Yet, they might be [...]
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Workers tethered by the e-leash in some strange places
Published: 03/10/2010
They do it while walking — oh so slowly — down the sidewalk. They do it at the gym. They do it at the movies. They even do it in the bathroom.
They are using their smart phones. While some people are checking out Facebook, getting directions, reading the news or just plain addicted, many are still on the [...]
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Where are the jobs? Education and health services, that’s where.
Published: 03/09/2010
“Where exactly are these jobs you keep talking about?”
That is one of the questions we frequently receive here at The Work Buzz. And we do our best to point you in the right direction. Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics made locating these open positions a simpler task by releasing the current January Job Openings and Labor [...]
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Talk to The Work Buzz! Contest: Ask us a question about interviews
Published: 03/08/2010
Hello, everyone-
As our last post said, we’re holding a contest where we ask you to submit your questions based on that week’s topic. We’ll choose one person’s question to answer and then send him or her a copy of Career Building, which will bring you hours of joy for the rest of your life. It’s [...]
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Announcing the Talk to The Work Buzz! Contest
Published: 03/08/2010
Ever since we launched The Work Buzz, we have grown fond of you, our inquisitive readers. We post about news, pop culture happenings, studies and anything else that we think will help your job hunt or workplace issues. And you always let us know how you feel about our posts in our comments section. Sometimes [...]
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February job numbers redux
Published: 03/05/2010
We’ve been a little crazed here at TheWorkBuzz lately and just realized the day has passed without posting our regular breakdown of the BLS’s monthly unemployment numbers. Luckily, our colleagues at TheHiringSite.com have already written about that very subject so we’ll refer you to their post.
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10 ways to make your resume stand out
Published: 03/05/2010
When a house has been on the market for an extended time without an offer or even a showing, homeowners often get help staging their property and even make over important rooms, like kitchens and bathrooms. When it comes to your job search, perhaps you should use this approach with your resume.
With electronic job applications and [...]
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House passes jobs bill
Published: 03/04/2010
After a lot of sound and even more fury, the House of Representatives finally passed a $15 billion jobs bill. (Yes, billion.) The bill has been debated, criticized, lauded, feared, analyzed and everything else you can possibly do to a bill. The final vote was 217-201.
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Workers consider their jobs ideal. No, seriously.
Published: 03/02/2010
Try to have a conversation about your job without complaining about your boss or griping about the little things just eat at your nerves. Like peanut butter and jelly or Ricky and Lucy, work and complaints belong together. Due to the nature of my job, I see a lot of data about workers and job [...]
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Millennials: Too optimistic about their careers?
Published: 02/25/2010
Millennials get a lot of attention these days. For some strange reason everyone seems to be fascinated with the current crop of young workers. Maybe we’re all taking Whitney Houston too seriously when she sings that the children are our future. Regardless, you can’t pick up a newspaper or blog (including this one) without reading [...]
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