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Girls Just Wanna Have Equal Pay: Obama to Boost Equal Pay Laws
In Cyndi Lauper’s most popular anthem (which you may be ashamed to admit gets stuck in your head every time you hear it), she sings: “When the working day is done, oh girls they wanna have fun.” Well...
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What Mozilla Employees Are Teaching Us About Social Media
“Ugh, you won’t BELIEVE what my boss just did!” In addition to instead of complaining to their significant others, BFFs and pets, some employees are now turning to social media to vocalize their...
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Are Office Dress Codes Going Out of Fashion?
Do the impeccably-clad Don Drapers of the world continue to dominate workplace fashion? Or have leaders like Mark Zuckerberg inspired employers everywhere to ditch formal attire by making the ultra...
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Would You Hire a Job-Hopper? More Than Half of Employers Have
Some things in life don’t carry that much of a stigma anymore. Case in point: taking selfies, dressing your pets like humans, and job hopping. While we couldn’t validate the first two with hard data,...
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Soft Skills and Hard Skills Go Together Like PB + J
A peanut butter sandwich doesn’t sound terribly appetizing, and neither does a plain jelly sandwich. That’s because both peanut butter and jelly are equally important to make a great sandwich....
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Job-Hopping, Much? 1 in 4 Workers Under 35 Have Held 5+ Jobs
What do wearables and job-hopping have in common? Like it or not, both are becoming increasingly normal today. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 1 in 4 workers have had 5-plus jobs by the age...
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Dude, Where’s Your College Degree? How Education Is Impacting Employment
Don’t let reality shows like The Real Housewives or The Escape Club fool you into thinking our collective education level as a society has taken a nosedive over the past few years. In fact, we’re...
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You Did WHAT?! More Employers Eliminate Candidates Based on Social Media...
One thing Alec Baldwin, Kendall Jenner and James Franco have in common — besides questionable judgment and a LOT of free time, apparently — is they’re no strangers to pushing the boundaries on social...
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Job Forecast: Hiring Looks Sunny in Second Half of 2014
Nearly half of U.S. employers plan to add full-time, permanent headcount over the next six months — quite an improvement over the same period a year ago, according to CareerBuilder’s mid-year job...
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8 Findings About the Impact of Social Media on Hiring
Innocently looking up a blind date on social media to make sure he’s not a serial killer compatible is a fairly common thing to do. But what does social media have to do with hiring, you ask? As new...
View ArticleBureau of Labor Statistics’ Redesigned Site to Launch Soon
One of my stops at the recent SHRM conference was to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ exhibitor booth. For those of you not familiar with BLS, they are the principal...
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Who’s Letting the Dogs Out (and Into the Office) for “Take Your Dog to Work...
Tomorrow, if you were not already aware, marks the annual Take Your Dog to Work Day. (And yes, that's more than enough reason to blast this gem from the year 2000 on full volume). According to a Web...
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An Inside Peek Into CareerBuilder’s New hireINSIDER — and Why it May...
According to a Personified survey of 250,000 job seekers, nearly 60 percent of job applicants reported they never received a response from the last employer they applied to for a job. With millions of...
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The Week at Work: 10 Things We Learned
While you were busy tweeting unsolicited advice to Twitter about its upcoming IPO, waiting in line for Apple’s new iPhone to be released, watching “Wrecking Ball” more than 15 million times, or getting...
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The Biggest Resume Mistakes: Global Edition
Kim Kardashian’s Met Ball getup, Lena Dunham’s Emmys gown, pretty much everything Helena Bonham Carter wears – I’m talking, of course, about the biggest fashion gaffes of the year. You wear one wrong...
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Hiring Veterans: 7 in 10 Feel Prepared to Enter Workforce
If you’ve ever found yourself asking the question: “Why should I hire a military veteran?” an even better question is “Why wouldn’t you?” Consider the fact that the majority (71 percent) of veterans...
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Nearly 2 in 5 Employers Have Jobs Open 4+ Months Due to a Skills Gap
If you paid attention to the latest jobs report, you’ll know that the U.S. added 204,000 jobs in October – 84,000 MORE than the 120,000 jobs economists were expecting. Even though there were some...
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Hello Holiday Shopping, Goodbye Workplace Productivity?
Ah, Thanksgiving — a time to connect with loved ones, give thanks, eat till you’re sick and, of course, shop till you drop. Unfortunately, many are saving that last activity till they get back to work....
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What Can Cupertino’s Boom Teach YOU About Recruiting?
Cupertino, California: home of Apple, Inc. and a city that didn’t experience booming success until one industry – IT – radically changed it. It can be argued that much of Cupertino’s growth stems from...
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3 in 5 Candidates Check Employers Out on Social Media
Sorry George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson and any other celeb who for one reason or another has spoken out against the need to be on social media — but it seems to be much too valuable a...
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FAIL! You Won’t Believe These Outrageous Job Interview Mistakes
If you’ve watched one of those reality TV singing competitions like The Voice or American Idol, you’ll know that the contestants barely have a few minutes to make their mark and impress the judges with...
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1 in 2 Employers Will Train New Hires to Close the Skills Gap
More companies are taking it upon themselves to build the “perfect” employee instead of waiting for one. In the face of the skills gap challenge, nearly half (49 percent) of employers say they expect...
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1 in 4 Employers Tap High School Students to Fill Talent Pipeline
Is there such a thing as too young to be in the spotlight? As evidenced by Quvenzhané Wallis or even…ahem…Honey Boo Boo, the answer is no. And apparently, there is no such thing as being too young to...
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Forcing Fun in the Workplace? Funny How It Can Fail
If you’re like me, you’re laughing while cringing at most scenes of the hit show “The Office.” That’s because whether it’s a company outing, a holiday party or even just an impromptu pep talk in the...
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Nearly 1 in 5 Will Recruit Part-Time Workers in 2014
More employers (17 percent) are expecting to recruit part-time workers this year, up from 14 percent last year. While a variety of factors continue to influence this trend, 12 percent said they will do...
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Top 10 Areas in the U.S. to Recruit Software Engineers
We all know that software downloads often take some time — apparently, so does finding a qualified software engineer. Given the short supply of candidates for this position across the U.S., finding...
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The Biggest Staffing Challenges Employers Are Facing
If you hear one more weather update about the billionth snowstorm or deep freeze, you’ll stab yourself in the eye, right? It’s getting old and you’re ready for the spring. (You and me both.) Similarly,...
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The Recession Cloud Hangs Over More Than 1 in 2 Employers
You’d think by now discussions about twerking, selfies and the recession would be passé. But the reality is those things are not really behind us. More than half (58 percent) of U.S. employers say that...
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Dear Kelly Blazek, Thanks for Teaching Us a Lesson in Employer Etiquette
Not since Justine Sacco, whose notorious tweet created a controversial firestorm, has a professional communicator’s communications landed them in hot water — and the national spotlight. But this one...
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5 Workplace Wellness Trends You Can Easily Implement
If you’re like me, the mere thought of popping in a Jillian Michaels DVD is much more terrifying than reading research that suggests you could die early by leading a sedentary lifestyle. But, according...
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Companies Spend More On Coffee Than Training. Wait, What?
Nearly half of U.S. companies spend less than $68 per day on training employees, which means they spend more on coffee than training, according to The Talent Equation. Anyone who knows me understands...
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