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Corporate Crises Mess With Employee Morale
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Company calamities like the ones playing out at firms such as BP, Goldman Sachs and Toyota do more than just impact a firm's reputation and bottom line. They also do a number on employees. It's been nearly a decade, but Shirley Green still remembers vividly the pain and anguish she felt when her former employer Qwest Communications faced disaster. The company announced sweeping layoffs in 2000,
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A Message to the Class of 2010
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Congratulations. Since I couldn't be at every high school and college commencement this year, I wanted to send a message to all of the graduates in this country who are about to embark on the next chapter of your young and promising lives. There are generations of Americans who came of age during periods of peace and prosperity. When they graduated from high school or college, they entered a w
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The Formula for Selling Anybody, Anything, Any Time
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Here's the thing: Sometimes we're selling our ideas, sometimes we're selling our products and, these days, many of us are selling ourselves as the best candidate for the job. With this in mind, here's the proven formula for selling your best self to anybody, anywhere, any time.First: Yale University did a study of the 12 most persuasive words in the English language. They discovered that the mo
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World Cup: How Much Do Top Footballers Earn?
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To most Americans, David Beckham is a soccer superstar. But to the rest of the world, he's pretty much an average professional footballer -- at least in terms of salary. Beckham's nearly $6.5 million annual contract doesn't even crack the list of the top 20 highest-paid soccer stars, and barely puts him onto the list of the top 50 earners in the sport. Comparatively speaking: Soccer versus Ameri
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Workplace Suicides On the Rise
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Last month, Mark Levy, a 59-year-old Maryland lawyer, died of a self-inflected gunshot wound at his office after finding out he was about to lose his job. Phil Pagano, 60, a Chicago commuter train director being investigated for an unauthorized vacation payout, stepped out in front of an oncoming train May 7 and was killed. And late last year, Census Bureau worker William Sparkman, 51, who was b
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Companies Hiring: The Northeastern Edition
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Because we love you, dear readers, we’re continuing to highlight companies hiring around the country. Last week we looked at companies hiring in the Midwest, and today it’s all about he Northeast. So here are open positions, the companies hiring for them and the states where you can find them. Go, click, be merry!VermontPeople’s United Bank – Audit managerG4S Wackenhut – Traditi
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The Gulf Oil Spill and Job Loss: By The Numbers
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Experts have already deemed the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as the worse environmental disaster in U.S. history — but when all is said and done, the catastrophe might also be considered one of our nation’s worst in terms of its effect on employment.Since the Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, dozens of professions have been affected. From fishermen, to lifeguards, to those in the of
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The Best Metros for Job Growth
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Where you live affects every aspect of your life. The cost of your rent or mortgage. Whether you drive everywhere, take a bus or walk. How much you pay for groceries. The availability of jobs. You could say that location really is everything.Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment findings for metropolitan areas for April. Many metros have worse unemployment figures than they
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