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Oct. 22--Launched Wednesday, the new Women's Economic Security Campaign will be advocating nationwide to help women and female heads of household rise out of poverty and tap into job opportunities created by the emerging "green economy." "Good jobs for women are not only critical for family economic stability, they are a key component of lasting economic recovery for our nation," WESC ...

You may think - if you're a woman with a full-time job - that your career is a way of paying the bills. Perhaps you even think you enjoy it. Not so, says Cristina Odone, a former deputy editor of this magazine and the author of What Women Want, a new pamphlet published by the Centre for Policy Studies. In fact, ...

I picked up a French language cassette tape - yes, I said cassette tape - at the public library a few months ago in preparation for a recent trip abroad. (The prices of most of the "Learn Conversational French in a Week!" CDs at the local bookstore prompted me to go with economic prudence and start out with a freebie - ...

Oct. 19--A murky economy has local job seekers using any and all tools at their disposal to find employment and get an edge over the competition. Online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn have meant salvation for a growing number of unemployed people. Old ways of finding work, such as mass-mailing physical resumes and combing newspaper ads, have ...

When you’ve worked so hard to get that first job after college, the last thing you want is to screw it up. Sadly, new grads do it all the time. The problem rarely stems from lack of knowledge or poor technical skills. It often goes back to something simpler: Your persona in the workplace, particularly during your first few weeks on ...

There’s been some discussion lately that, as employees start to see signs of economic recovery, they’ll begin to dust off their resumes and start searching for a new opportunity. If you want to read more about this, check out the posts here and here. (Insert sarcasm here.) Frankly, I’m shocked. The implication that companies have used this near-catastrophic recession to undercut ...

A reader writes: I was just terminated from my job. I was five days before being off probation and two days away from my first big job event (I plan and run conferences). Without any prior notice, meeting, or confrontation, I was ushered into my department head’s office and told that in order to make a strong team, she needed to ...

If you're a hiring manager, you've seen a variety of colorful job candidates and heard many interesting answers, creative excuses and witnessed strange interview behaviors that have left you exhausted and ready to tear your hair out, if you aren't already bald from the stress. As for interviewees, it isn't that much easier for you either. Your lack of success ...

What if we are in the recovery and you are nowhere to be found? Are you one of those managers who has been keeping your head down for fear that if you look up, you'll be the next to go? Are you playing it safe, rather than taking risks? Are you working harder, rather than smarter just to prove your commitment ...

Are you beginning to pick up signs in the workplace or on job interviews that your industry has changed and left you behind? The signs may be subtle or direct, but the reality could be that you are aging out of your job. Now, more than ever, it is important to understand how such communications may be transmitted so you can ...

Oct. 16--CUMBERLAND -- Living with today's economy is hard and finding a job is even harder. Though the weather wasn't very pleasant Thursday, many people came out to the One-Stop Job Center in hopes of finding employment at the job fair. "I've been out of a job since November of last year," said Oldtown resident Sharon McBride. "It's a little more ...

New research from the UK suggests that having an almighty row with your work colleagues could be beneficial for all concerned. The response to this by the usually polite and quiet Brits has been understandably mixed!

A Golf Story I love and hate playing the game of golf. There is something inherently peaceful about walking around a carefully landscaped course and there is something inherently vengeful and ridiculous about trying to get a small white ball into a cup 300 yards away. When I lived a bit closer to my dad, we’d play quite a bit in ...

PART 1 | PART 2 A workplace bully could be your boss, your division's honcho or even your company's chief executive. Other workplace sociopaths could be peers who openly slander you or gang up to intimidate or isolate you. So when considering a response to this form of psychological abuse, it's critical for bullying targets to consider organizational relationships. Next ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's point man on civil rights said Wednesday he will seek to fight discrimination against gays, an area in which the Justice Department has had only a small role in the past. Tom Perez, the assistant attorney general in charge of the department's Civil Rights Division, said pending legislation in Congress will allow the department to attack ...

If you've put in a number of years in your professional field, this dreaded scenario might sound familiar: You get a call or an email from a friend of a colleague, asking for a meeting with a murky agenda. Not wanting to offend your colleague, you halfheartedly agree to a brief encounter. The day arrives, and so does the feckless ...

An effective employee incentive program is a very useful and important aspect of employee motivation. Here is how to implement just that...

PART 1 | PART 2 It's hard to pinpoint how it started. Maybe it was when you saw your manager's assistant noting those rare occasions when you came in 10 minutes late. Or maybe it was the time the boss half-jokingly trashed your performance -- in front of her higher-up. There now seems no end to your tormentor's campaign of ...

A reader writes: My husband is a wonderful dentist, but has not been exactly the best manager. He has a small office with one employee who has been there for 27 years. When she started 27 years ago he sent her a general confirmation letter that stated her salary at the time and time off. The rest was pretty general. I ...

If you're going the wrong way down a road, the answer isn't to step on the gas, but to turn around. It is not that the U.S. doesn't need health care reform, but it needs the right type of reform. Problematic as our system often is, it is possible to make things worse. All the bills making their way through Congress ...