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Everyone wants a good salary. But today you might just need to think like a contractor to find it.
In an economic state like our current one, more employers offer contract jobs to save on benefits and other expenses involved in a full-time hire. But because they spend less in other areas, they're usually willing to pay better hourly rates to contractors.
The information technology industry is
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Earn More Than a Full-Timer: 10 Hot Contract Jobs
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Lansing Fighting for Michigan Jobs - Virg Bernero
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The state we all love is on the ropes. People feel the walls closing in around them. Job loss, home foreclosure, rising health care costs, jacked up credit card rates and rising tuition are crushing too many Michigan families. People are hurting. ...
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What We Do When the Boss Isn't Looking
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"When the cat's away, the mice will play," is a term most of you can relate to. As employees, when your manager is gone -- be it on vacation or just away from her desk -- you're like a teenager whose parents are out of town.You sneak out early or come in late. You chitchat with co-workers more frequently, usually about nonwork-related things. You make personal phone calls, take extra-long lunch
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What Can You Do With a Law Degree?
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Students in certain fields, such as English or philosophy, are used to family and friends asking, "What do you plan to do with your degree? Teach?" Although many do go on to teach, others take their skills to occupations that are nowhere near a classroom.On the flip side, few people question the future of law students. If they're studying law, they must want to be lawyers. (And many people don't
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Target your résumé to prospective employer's needs
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Your résumé isn't about you, it's about them. And that is the first guiding rule you should remember as you craft your employment history and achievements to match the needs of the companies you want most to hire you.Consider your audience by researching the company and its industry, and earmarking your résumé to the challenges faced by both. Point out how your talents and training dovetail with
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Flexible Jobs That Pay $40K and Up - Yahoo! Education
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Looking for flexibility and high pay? Check out these 5 jobs...
By Yahoo Education Staff
Would you like to set your own schedule and still make good money?
Take heart. There are well-paying jobs out there that let you call the shots on your hours.
Check out these five jobs that have flexibility built in...and pay $40,000 and up!
Job #1 - Registered Nurse
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By Yahoo Education Staff
Would you like to set your own schedule and still make good money?
Take heart. There are well-paying jobs out there that let you call the shots on your hours.
Check out these five jobs that have flexibility built in...and pay $40,000 and up!
Job #1 - Registered Nurse
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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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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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