Job Hunting

HEADNOTE The future of business is pure chaos. Here's how you can survive- and perhaps even thrive. DJ Patii pulls a 2-foot-long metal bar from his backpack. The contraption, which he calls a...

HEADNOTE Miles Roberts, group chief executive of DS Smith, international supplier of recycled packaging, is RISI's 2012 European CEO of the Year Miles Roberts, group chief executive of DS Smith, international supplier of...

Jimmy Prokopeuff, a 32-year-old Aleut living in Atka, Alaska, is manager at the local seafood plant. He is one of about 70 full-time residents in this small village on the Aleutian Islands. Prokopeuff...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. (Nasdaq:BOOT), a leading provider of premium, branded work and outdoor footwear for expert users, announced that it plans to report its results for the fourth quarter and...

NEW YORK -- Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:MWW): December 2011 Index Highlights: * Monster Employment Index U.S. shows annual growth of 8 percent in December, consistent with slow, but steady growth in online recruitment...

Social media helps, but hands-on contact is key tool in annual job hunt CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- They may need regular Facebook fixes and are literally joined at the hip to their smart phones,...

AFTER A FEW bumpy years marked by declining TV ratings and weakened traction in the vital 18- to 34-year-old male demographic, Nascar regained some footing in 2011. TV viewership rose year-over-year in all...

Operation Iraqi Freedom, or OIF, began March 19, 2003. On Dec. 31, 2011, the final day of the Status of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, with the government of Iraq, the war ended. Iraqis...

HEADNOTE What is motivating a growing number of Americans to "strategically" default? IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 Almost a year ago, Gene Kessler stopped paying his $1,500 monthly mortgage bill. His home in New Ulm,...

Almost a year ago, Gene Kessler stopped paying his $1,500 monthly mortgage bill. * His home in New Ulm; Minnesota, had dropped 32 percent in value in seven years. * A former computer...

A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. - Woody Allen as Alvy Singer in Annie Hall What is true for relationships...

Gates Corp., in collaboration with the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), named Andreas Miller of Longmont, CO, the 2011 Gates/ASE Master Automobile & Ll Technician of the Year. ASE partnered with...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Municipality of Anchorage is one of Alaska's most prominent and populous urban areas. Nowhere else in the state contains such a substantial population concentrated in one place--and within easy reach...

Qualified diesel technicians are getting harder to find, a situation the transportation trade press has lamented for the past decade with headlines such as "Who Will Fix Your Trucks?" Ironically, as the diesel...

For years, the personal shoppers at the Women's Resource Agency heard stories of women in need of interview suits but had no transportation to the agency's Dress for Success boutique in The Citadel...

Having secured a commission from Al Jazeera to film rebel fighters in war-torn Libya, Anne Reevell did what any mother would do: took her son along. Credits The Long Road to Tripoli Production...

Secure Access to Military Records, Skill "Translators" WASHINGTON -- Veterans now have on-demand access and can download official data about their military training and experience, which can be used to help them find...

Capella Education Company partners with Dick Bolles to present "What Color Is Your Parachute?: The Online Course" MINNEAPOLIS -- Capella Education Company, a provider of online post-secondary education primarily through its wholly owned...

NEW YORK -- Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW): November 2011 Index Highlights: * Monster Employment Index U.S. shows annual growth of 10 percent in November * Index edges down two percent on monthly...