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Check out 'Green Careers for Dummies'What exactly does it mean to have a green career? That's one of the first questions tacked in "Green Careers for Dummies," a book for would-be participants in the new green economy. ...continue |
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AOL's Success Goes Beyond Profit and LossAOL's approach to meshing news with commerce is an advanced example of an emerging practice I referred to in 2008 as "calibrated journalism." ...continue |
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Startups Are Key to New JobsAmid all the proposals for jump-starting the jobs market through small business, more attention needs to be focused on startups. That is where new jobs come from. From 1980 through 2005, all net job growth occurred at firms less than five years old. That's according to the Kauffman Foundation's study of census data. ...continue |
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Tech Giants Hiding Workforce DiversityGoogle says the race and gender of its workforce is a trade secret that cannot be released. So do Apple, Yahoo, Oracle and Applied Materials. These five companies waged an 18-month Freedom of Information battle with the San Jose Mercury News, convincing federal regulators who collect the data that its release would cause "commercial harm" by potentially revealing the companies' business strategy to competitors. ...continue |
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Monster Gobbles Up HotJobs: MWW to Pay Yahoo $225MMonster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), which runs online job giant Monster.com, announced today plans to purchase the assets of Yahoo's (NYSE: YHOO) HotJobs, a competing recruitment site and job search board. ...continue |
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In the Job Hunt, Beware of ScamsIn depressed job markets, where job hunters vastly outnumber job openings, there are people who try to profit at desperate job hunters' expense. Repeat after me: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. ...continue |
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Silicon Valley Tech Firms Drop on Fortune's Top Employers ListSilicon Valley is slipping as a place to work -- judged, at least, by the ranking of employers on Fortune magazine's yearly "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. Four Bay Area tech companies -- NetApp, Google, Cisco Systems and Genentech -- were ranked in the magazine's top 10 last year, with NetApp at No. 1 and Google at No. 4. This year, Mountain View Internet giant Google kept its No. 4 spot, but NetApp, a Sunnyvale data storage company, dropped to No. 7. ...continue |
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2010 Job Forecast Looks PromisingCareerBuilder's 2010 job forecast looks quite encouraging, except for a few findings about pay raises and business travel (if you're the type who enjoys trips). ...continue |
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Putting a Fair Internet Use Policy in PlaceMore than half of employees who have Internet access at work say they will shop for holiday gifts from the office, according to a November poll conducted for Shop.org. While online shopping may be more efficient than braving the crowds at lunch hour, employee shopping can compromise both security and productivity. What are the issues raised by this for small business owners? ...continue |
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Green Energy Stimulus Growing Few Jobs"Green energy" is proving to be no miracle solution to the nation's monumental unemployment problems, and it is doing little to help the economy emerge from its deepest recession in decades, economists say. ...continue |
