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Many companies are reluctant to take a chance on a candidate who has been jobless for a long period of time. But you may be missing out on a great hire.

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Behavioral Interviewing Looks Beyond a Candidate's Résumé

By Andrea Poe | Filed In: Hiring & Firing and Staffing & HR

Job skills can often be learned, but a candidate's behaviors will likely determine their success. Learn how to discover what someone's really made of.

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Ten Tips for Successful Résumé Writing

Filed In: Your Career and Staffing & HR

Many people agonize over writing a résumé, and for good reason. We share some tried-and-true rules that can help transform yours from blah to wow!

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Avoid the Top 10 Job Interview Mistakes

Filed In: Your Career and Staffing & HR

You can reduce your stress level during a job interview by knowing the 10 most common mistakes that interviewees tend to make -- and how to avoid them.

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Ten Effective Job Search Strategies

Filed In: Your Career and Staffing & HR

Searching for a new job can be seriously hard work, today more than ever. Jump-start your next job search with these ten helpful job-hunting strategies.

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Wacky Resumes Can Backfire

By JACK KATZANEK THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Recruitment & Hiring and Human Resources & Personnel Management

Dozens of people respond to every advertised job opening these days, and many are doing anything they can to make sure their names get noticed. A lot of the résumés from these job...

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New Twist on an MBA: Focus on Being Ethically, Socially Responsible

By By John Keahey The Salt Lake Tribune | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: College & University Professors and Education Administration

Orem » It is not unusual for university business-school students to serve internships with companies large and small. They get a grade, experience and an entry on their résumés. In return, companies get...

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Dude, Where's My Startup?

By Tom Stein | Filed In: Generation Y and Demographic Groups

The same factors that make Millennials so confident and connected may hurt them as entrepreneurs.

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Use Key Phrases to Improve Resume Odds

By RICHARD MULLINS, rmullins@tampatrib.com | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Nurses & Nursing and Health Care Professionals

Software scans often rank candidates initially. By RICHARD MULLINS rmullins@tampatrib.com TAMPA - ROI, SQL and CCIM. Are those code words in your résumé? How about the magic medical term "board certified."...

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Talent Search

By CHRISTOPHER HOSFORD | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Online Marketing & Advertising and Direct Marketing

In assessing the health of search marketing, analysts track everything from the number of search queries to advertising spending and projected marketing budgets.

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Our World of Work

By By Bonnie Easton

Bonnie Easton has been the Career Specialist for the Career Center of the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Northern Ohio for the past five years. The Career Center web site is cuyahogalibrary.org/careerexpert.aspx

| Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Part-Time Employment and Working Hours & Patterns

Just as the economy of the 1930s witnessed the shift from farming to manufacturing, this era is seeing the changeover to highly skilled jobs.

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Professionalism 101: Colleges Nurture Trait Employers Want

By Bair, Jessica | Publication: Central Penn Business Journal | Filed In: Human Resources and Human Resources & Personnel Management

The level of professionalism displayed by college graduates has diminished over the years.

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Changing Times for Jobs Agencies: "Cruel" Market Puts Emphasis on Technology

By STL JOBWATCH > STEVE GIEGERICH sgiegerich@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8172 | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Employment Services and Human Resources & Personnel Management

For employment agencies, the internet sent would-be clients away from fee-based agencies to online sites that offered job searches for free.

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Looking for a New Career? Pick a Number

By Douglas Brown The Denver Post | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Layoffs and Layoffs & Dismissals

Numerologist helps clients find new careers and jobs using methods not found in the arsenal of many traditional career counselors.

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Despite Benefits of Applying Online, Job Fairs Still Make Impression

By DAN SHINGLER | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Employment Fairs and Labor & Employment

It’s looking like the Internet is going to wipe out job fairs about as quickly as the personal computer created the paperless society. In other words, job fairs might be more prevalent than...

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Technology Access Computer Recycler Gives Itself an Upgrade

By Scott Hewitt Columbian staff writer | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Materials Recovery & Recycling and Waste Management & Remediation Services

Free classes for folks who have never manipulated a computer mouse, traversed the globe via the Internet, or sent anybody an e-mail.

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Recruiters Face Catch-22 of Sorts: With Fewer Workers, Companies Thin HR Staffs

By JOEL DRESANG , Staff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Human Resources and Human Resources & Personnel Management

The people who act as employers' gatekeepers are finding themselves out on the street, wondering how this could happen to them.

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Opportunities to Restart Careers

By Richard J. Alley Special to The Commercial Appeal | Publication: LexisNexis | Filed In: Apprenticeships & Internships and Curricula

Piggly Wiggly founder Clarence Saunders fell on hard times in the 1920s and found himself out of sorts, out of money and out of a house. So it seemed fitting Thursday that the...

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Luggage Maker Is on Front Lines of Crisis

By Julie Jargon | Filed In: Entrepreneurship and Company Structures & Ownership

J.W. Hulme's co-owners borrowed heavily to fuel growth. Now the credit crunch has thrown the company -- and the lives of its owners -- into a spiral.

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