One sign of better economic times is when more people start finding jobs. Another is when they feel confident enough to quit them. More people quit their jobs in the past three months than were laid off — a sharp reversal after 15 straight months in which layoffs exceeded voluntary departures.
The trend suggests the job market is finally thawing.
Some of the quitters are leaving for new jobs. Others have no firm offers. But their newfound confidence about landing work is itself evidence of...
It's been a long, dry spell for many of the suit-clad Wall Streeters who were handed their pink slips before hardly anyone was talking recovery.
But sit down with a handful of ex-finance industry workers volunteering to work for free as interns in a city-sponsored retraining program, and they seem almost ... happy.
In the current economy, it's an uncommon reaction to the loss of a job. But for some...
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Many job hunting boards talk about creating your own personal brand. And branding is a part of marketing. Large organizations even have "brand manager" within their marketing effort. 
There is a lot of talk in the past few years about social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace and the granddaddy of business networking sites, LinkedIn.com. There are also Plaxo, Spoke and even the alumni-oriented websites like classmates.com, but LinkedIn -- with over five years of growth, remains the most accepted. 
From workbloom.net: One tactic the bad guys are trying is a twist on an old standby: e-mails
purporting to come from legitimate companies that say they're still hiring.
The messages are loaded with links to the company's official Web site to
throw off...
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Are you tired of junk? The event was a Wall Street Pink Slip Party, where the unemployed mix with
recruiters and curious bystanders to network, look for work, and share
their stories.
With employers shedding 600,000 more jobs in January, the undercurrent at
this party in a Manhattan bar was decidedly glum.
"Wall Street, directly or...
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