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Your Career: What’s in a name?
Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:41 PM EST
Throughout Shuki Khalili’s career, he suspected his name might be holding him back. When he worked for a Wall Street headhunter, he felt potential clients would blow him off when they heard his name. When he started his own business selling greeting cards, phones sales were initially a bust at first.
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Holiday ‘pop-up’ stores are going upscale
Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:33 AM EST
For two months this holiday season, an empty jewelry store in midtown Manhattan has been magically transformed into a toy train shop, complete with a Christmas tree and electric engines chugging along miniature tracks.
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Your Career: More disabilities to be protected
Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:46 PM EST
Priya Dua suffers from epilepsy, but she considers herself a hard worker who has not allowed her condition to derail her career. But her last job as an account manager for a San Diego company tested her resolve.
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Your Career: Working with your spouse
Sun Nov 8, 2009 6:28 PM EST
Divorce can be hell, but it can be even more hellish if the husband and wife work together.
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Your Career: Turning dreams into reality
Sun Nov 1, 2009 6:07 PM EST
Elizabeth Nill, 61, had a dream of becoming a president of a community college when she went to Harvard Business School in the late 1970s. But even though colleagues told her she didn’t have the temperament for such a job, she spent years pursuing her dream.
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Your Career: Guerrilla reference checks
Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:16 PM EDT
Checking references seems more like guerrilla warfare lately. Hiring managers want to find out everything they can about you before they offer you a job, and conventional tactics don’t seem to be enough.
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Women not hopeful about 'green' funding
Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:36 AM EDT
Wendi Goldsmith, president of a “green” design and construction firm, is no stranger to landing government contracts, but she’s not expecting a windfall from the billions flowing into green businesses as part of the $787 billion federal stimulus package.
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Many moms assume burden of child-care costs
Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:54 PM EDT
One of the biggest hurdles for working couples trying to balance work and family is finding good and affordable day care. But for some reason, many mothers think arranging and paying for child care is mainly their concern.
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Your Career: Tweeting for your boss
Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:57 PM EDT
Your employer may soon want to muscle in on your Twitter followers and Facebook friends.
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Your Career: A lesson for workplace lovers
Sun Oct 4, 2009 4:22 PM EDT
When talk show host David Letterman went public last week with the revelation that he had affairs with women who worked for him, he pointedly said he hopes “to protect my job.”
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Your Career: Paying more for health coverage
Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:01 PM EDT
Workers who have employer-sponsored health insurance may be surprised to learn how much more they’ll have to dish out for health care next year.
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'Clunker' appliance plan short on details
Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:08 PM EDT
A federally funded program launching in November will offer rebates on new energy-efficient appliances, but details of the program will vary by state and are still unclear.
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Your Career: Killing shines light on workplace violence
Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:41 PM EDT
The killing of a Yale student has shined a spotlight on the issue of workplace violence after police arrested a colleague at the lab where she worked and charged him with murder.
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Small businesses want, fear health reform
Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:34 PM EDT
Small-business owners are begging for changes to the health care system, but they believe they have the most to lose when and if reform materializes.
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Your Career: Soaring jobless rate taxes system
Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:03 PM EDT
In the past year, the explosion in the number of jobless people has taxed the nation’s underfunded unemployment insurance system, sometimes resulting in delayed payments.
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Your Career: Reignite your job search
Mon Sep 7, 2009 5:24 PM EDT
The number of “discouraged workers” — individuals who have given up the job search — have reached an all-time high. But putting your job search on hold will only delay success.
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Finding a green job that’s right for you
Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:51 PM EDT
Even though federal dollars earmarked for sustainable industries are starting to trickle in, that doesn’t mean green jobs are plentiful.
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Kennedy championed workers’ rights
Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:51 PM EDT
Sen. Ted Kennedy’s fervor is what enabled him to usher in a host of pro-worker legislation in the past four decades, from a minimum wage increase to OSHA to COBRA.
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Your Career: Female bosses and harassment
Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:21 PM EDT
Female managers are 137 percent more likely to experience sexual harassment than their rank-and-file counterparts, according to a new study.
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Your Career: Navigating health plan options
Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:08 PM EDT
Many think COBRA will be an easy choice when they head out their employer’s door, but often they experience sticker shock when they see the price tag. There are other options.
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Your Career: Don’t rule out COBRA discount
Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:36 PM EDT
Many unemployed who think COBRA insurance is too expensive don’t know a discount exists — and some have been given bogus information about whether they’re eligible.
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Scrap yards get busy crushing clunkers
Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:07 AM EDT
The government’s hugely popular “Cash for Clunkers” program is keeping scrap yards across the country busy crushing roadworthy vehicles and sending them on for shredding.
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Your Career: Job hunting past 50
Sun Aug 2, 2009 6:14 PM EDT
It’s harder for workers who are over 50 to find employment.
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Your Career: As work force ages, employers lag
Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:54 PM EDT
Anne Staats was 75 when she took a year off work to care for her ailing husband.
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Your Career: Credit screening
Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:01 PM EDT
Many job seekers are stuck between a rock and a hard place right now.
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