Friday, July 31, 2015

The study "Cookie Monster" shows how power corrupts people

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By Shana Lebowitz

Unethical people are more likely to collect positions of power? Or the people who exchange energy for the worse?

The research provides evidence of the latter, suggesting that power makes them greedy and less socially acceptable people.

A founder of the Brooklyn Brewery shares the best advice I ever

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By Richard Feloni

Steve Hindy based Brooklyn Brewery with Tom Potter in 1988. Thanks to the recent turn of craft beer, it is one of the 10 most successful independent breweries in the United States.

Mainly due to the emphasis on partnerships with other companies, in events in their biggest markets, Brooklyn Brewery sales tripled in recent years and is making 70 million dollars in sales this year.

It costs lower post-employment earnings in the second quarter

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By Lucia Mutikani

The US labor costs in the second quarter posted its smallest increase in 33 years under lukewarm gains in the private sector, but it was probably a temporary setback in the context of declining spare capacity in the labor market.

The little unexpected increase in the Labor Department reported on Friday, is likely to end not the speculation that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this year. The US labor market is about to full employment.

The labor cost index, the broadest measure of labor costs rose by 0.2 percent, the Labor Department. This was the smallest increase since the series began in the second quarter of 1982, following an increase of 0.7 percent in the first quarter.

the time has come to abolish the mandatory retirement?

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By Kerry Hannon

A few weeks ago I was at a dinner to kick off a three days in New York, attended called Age Boom Academy, whose theme was global aging: Danger Ahead? Our dinner speaker was John Beard, director of the World Health Organization (a branch of the United Nations) Department of Aging and life, and the question that is to us, "What is old"

It makes for a lively conversation.

Completion of Bart and the rest of us settled in: "Old" has nothing to do with the chronological age. No typical person. However, the Company and the employer do not always see it that way.

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Meet the 93-year-old woman who only want five days a week and never to retire

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By Rachel Gillett

At 93, Betty Reid Soskin is something of a celebrity.

A ranger assigned to WWII Rosie Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, frequently writes on his blog , has a Wikipedia page , and was interviewed by NPR and popular.

They became so popular, he said that the tour of the park audiences have doubled months, the visits are booked in advance, and the park has added views follow.

No doubt why Soskin enjoys celebrity status: She saw and lived everything "many, many lives", as he said NPR.

Soskin served as a clerk in an association of black paint during the Second World War, a political activist and composer during the civil rights movement was, he observed, and now interprets his experience of war through their stories.

But it is not only the oldest active duty in the National Park Service - Soskin helped shape what the park has first as a consultant and then as an interpretation park.

She works five days a week, five hours a day, and sometimes overtime. On Wednesday and Friday Soskin day answering e-mails and petitions spend in his office at the headquarters of downtown Richmond. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays education Visitor Center and provide two or three performances in their small theater.

Some days are bus tours through the sites that make the National Park or presentations are carried out.

Soskin Business Insider recently an insight into their experiences.

Business Insider: How did you start in the National Park Service?

Betty Reid Soskin: I as a state employee joined in the planning phase of a national park in 2000. An emerging distributed locations was the Ford assembly plant, which was designed by Albert Kahn and built on land belonging to the state.

This means that, as a sales representative for a member of the California State Assembly, had a seat at the table of the most important planning for this landmark building was built on land belonging to the state. It was built on air rights. This brings me to the residence, eventually the role of advisor for the National Park Service, which later paid a contract worker by the Trust Rosie. I resigned my position with the state in the year of 2003.

What were the early influences in your career?

If you held nine decades before entering lived in the park service many roles - wife, mother, artist, teacher, dealer, administrative support, sales representative for a member of the legislature, head of a research project UC Berkeley psychology department, chief of staff of the City Council in the city of Berkeley - each color added to my current career and influenced my work in every way.

What are the most useful skills to have in order to be a park ranger?

It would be dependent on the area in which one is assigned. Rangers from the National Park Service, the whole range of career opportunities - botany, marine biology and forestry communication and graphic design - skills reflect a variety of areas.

If one is in the interpretation, people skills are definitely a plus, and enough imagination and the ability to communicate research to enable problems throughout the private park.

However, I must admit that I'm not an interpreter training and what skills I got to do with me - were acquired under long before they discovered the park service.

13 secrets for better Performing under pressure

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We are on the right track now: Nobody not behave well under pressure. Many of us think of what we do, but they do not, or at least not as good as we could carry to do.

We can feel more creative when we're under fire, but there is a feeling, not a reality. True, you could be more productive, but the products that are created, are usually worse.

In his new book, " Making Under Pressure: The Science of Making the best when it matters most , "Hendrie Weisinger and JP Pawliw-Fry delivered the sad truth: the difference between ordinary people and those who is extremely successful not the last group is developing Vacuum. It is that they, their negative effects are better able to mitigate.

Or maybe that's a good news, because while in the book, is an ability to handle pressure, and you can learn. The book offers 22 tactics to do the best when the heat is on. We take a deep breath and took 13 of our favorites.

This is what is written about you after your interview with Google

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By Jim Edwards

Questions interview Strange Google - that engineers are invited to dissolve secrets logical questions onsite complicated - are legendary. The nature of the problems candidate can expect to face: "Which model is used to carry a ball through a maze table?" "Given a word to mutate into a palindrome in linear time." And (allegedly) "What happens if you enter www.google.com in your browser?"

But less attention to what happens on the, after the candidates have her step on a blackboard or in a document Google Docs solutions explain finished given.

In most companies, interviewers may want to take some notes on a candidate, and perhaps a potential employee give out a score form.

No to Google.

According to Mike Gainer, Senior Software Engineer adopt Google in San Francisco, after you shake hands with your interviewer and, then, the Google employees, an essay of up to 1,500 words about which you write. Interview after the test is crucial, because it is "not meeting" after the interview that Gainer and her colleagues were able to discuss in a position their guts on you. The decision will be based on the level of detail and the test information, Gainer wrote in the Koran, the question and answer site often used by people in the technology companies:

The other thing to keep in mind that this is mainly Google, that my interface to the process is that I speak to you, then I write 1000-1500 words, as he was going, and here. No meeting, no shades of gray, not iffiness nonverbal. The more you show that you really understand the problem, a better test, I can write. Please, please, help me a great essay on you. Think out loud. I have to see how he thinks I can be sure that you have worked the way to a correct answer and no luck. I am very caring to his way of digging of a fault or to discuss alternative approaches that (probably saved) to achieve some response "perfect".

So the advice is to talk and talk a lot about the issues raised.

9 superficial factors that may hinder receive funding

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From Esperanza Restle and Samantha Lee

In an ideal world we would be judged by our work. Unfortunately, professional success often goes beyond ethics and job performance of an individual; there are lesser-known factors that, offer a promotion to play a role in the decision of the employer.

According to a survey conducted by CareerBuilder , there are nine factors (surface), which can prevent them from getting a deserved promotion.

Monday, July 27, 2015

See if this made terribly difficult question to answer Goldman Sachs interviews

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By Rachel Gillett

In interviews on Wall Street, job seekers often encounter problems that send even the calmest candidate crash.

This question comes from Goldman Sachs and asked a few years ago an analyst candidate:

"If you were shrunk in a blender on the size of a pencil and put, like?"

Zappos decides to pay as much to employees as "self" frame the new system

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By Richard Feloni

In 2013, Zappos has begun the transition to "Holacracy" alternative management system, which replaced a pyramidal hierarchy network dedicated to specific areas such as marketing or human resources, and traditional management functions trenches circles.

The jobs are replaced by "rolling", the employee can accumulate.

Last March, CEO, Tony Hsieh decided the transition was too slow and offered employees severance to leave the company if they do not agree with him.

5 things cease immediately, the work

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By Robin Madell

The decisions that you will make at work to go a long way to achieving their daily lives. While you can not always check whether his experience in office is satisfactory or stressful, you can be sure, actions and behaviors that avoid most likely to lead to conflicts with colleagues or other problems in their working environment.

Here are five things to end today to more happiness and a successful career:

Actor Jason Segel explains why people who have never happened a sense of accomplishment

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By Alyson Shontell

Jason Segel is an accomplished actor who has appeared in Smash Hits "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" for "How I Met Your Mother".

For most people it is a success. But sailing says he is not always such a feeling.

Last paper sailing is a serious problem. He plays interviewed in an upcoming movie, a writer, the 5 days of a journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), spends "the end of the tour."

Friday, July 24, 2015

11 bad habits that could be keeping at work

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From Esperanza Restle

As it is, their behavior and work habits not only on the way they perceive their colleagues - to be and their ability to be successful.

So if you are in a bad mood ever or a daily dose of gossip cooling water is, you should consider your options ... immediately.

CareerBuilder recently conducted a study which discouraged to promote certain behaviors that hiring managers, employees look for.

A new study shows that the relationship between birth order and success can not be what we think

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We've all had that anchored: the elder brothers are ambitious, responsible in efficient, younger siblings are creative rebel, and children in the center are loose Brady January.

It is not just a detail of the complication: A recent study by the University of Illinois, none of this seems to be true.

The relationship between birth order and personality - including the tendency to leadership? Virtually non-existent.

Self-imposed ageism: If you are your own worst enemy

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By Jason Dukes

Age discrimination is a major problem, especially for older workers and job seekers. In a 2013 survey by the AARP US employees and job applicants 45-74, nearly two-thirds (64 percent), they said they had experienced or known ageism in the workplace work. And reports of age discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed increased by 36 percent 1997-2013.

But what gets less coverage and attention is self-imposed ageism. That is true for job-seekers and workers in their 50s and 60s will remember their own history beliefs about their limited prospects due to age. (Limiting beliefs relate to thoughts or stories you tell yourself you do not and do not support the impact of their decisions and behavior.)

To get 10 jobs that may pay on the page

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By Jacquelyn Smith

Trying to make some extra money? Free time you do not know what to do with it? Try to develop or improve a new skill? You should consider any additional work.

Brie Reynolds, head of online content for flexible jobs online service specializing in telecommuting and teleworking, as "part-time job" as any part-time defined, including independent, temporary, short or long term, to work from home or in person De- flexible concerts.

To qualify the list, each job has to be taken into account (not full time) flexible, and had to pay at least twice the minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour.

Here are 10 flexible jobs, the next task you should consider are listed below to pay:

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Companies Rent: 21/07 Week

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Job seekers, here our weekly list of 10 companies that are now hiring. Click on the company name to learn more about the opportunities available.

9 Error aspect that could be keeping at work

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From Esperanza Restle

You do your work, you add value to your team, and you need to help the bottom line of the company - but you have not been promoted in recent years.

Confused?

Well it turns out that his professional success not only depend on its work ethic and performance.

Here's how get through the work day after a sleepless night

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We've all been there, to run all night, counting the hours until we get to work in the morning. Sleepless nights are not fun.

And the sad fact is that even if the next day feeling like crap, you still have to come to the office, ready to give 110%.

But even if the idea of working eight hours a day can seem impossible, there are things you can do to get through it.

Here's how sleep researcher who spoke with New York Magazine , so you can make your working day to power structure of irritability and fatigue:

6 ways Google can boost your job search

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It is very likely that you regularly use Google to search for anything and everything. However, there are some less obvious ways you can use the special functions of this ubiquitous platform add enormous power and sophistication to your job search.

If you understand the intricacies of Google, you can find and analyze information and make easier by recruiters and other people with the background, skills, and more found. You can also learn how recruiters use Google to identify candidates for their clients. Try these techniques:

Monday, July 20, 2015

9 ways to get women what they want, at work

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By Kerry Hannon

I went to a forum to discuss ways that people engaged more in their work, and in fact, love, as my book, like his work: new rules for career luck was published this spring.

Thus, a recent survey by Gallup has made me smile. He said: "The executives are more women than men are employed in their work, and companies need to hire and promote more women leaders."

But the bad news is that for many working women, landing a management position is a slippery slope. Women who visited the workplace for decades often hit the door at the top management for a variety of reasons, which I discuss in a minute.

17 selected executives who lied on their resume

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From Esperanza Restle and Jacquelyn Smith

Your resume is a place to show their greatest successes and display your most valuable skills. Is that hiring managers use to determine whether it would be good for the job, and if you are worthy of meeting in person.

So it is not surprising that most people are in their resumes. A CareerBuilder survey in 2014 revealed that 58% of hiring managers exaggerate candidates or rigging details about the features, abilities or rewards above. And the entry-level or mid-level workers are not the only ones who lie. CEOs have, also.

Here are 17 successful executives who have been admitted captured or falsify, to exaggerate or even lie on their resumes.

Vivian Giang and Jhaneel Lockhart contributed to an earlier version of this article.

8 records that kill their letters

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By Alison Green

Few people like to write letters . Consequently, they tend to fall into clichés and lint that will step up their applications, but weakened in many cases. See how many of these eight sets that recognize their own character - and if you immediately see nothing!

How repel an intern in 5 steps

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By Robin Reshwan

It's no secret that the setting warmed for many professions. With increasing competition for the recruitment of new graduates in areas with high productivity desired, smart companies realize that hiring college interns is a great way to develop a recruitment pipeline and a little work together. Driven students today - that most every company expected to rent - can complete before graduation two fifty-eight courses.

Many companies forget, however, that this summer signings have a huge impact on your brand. Treat your interns well, and send you an enthusiastic ambassador for the school. Treat them badly, and ensured that 2,000 of his closest Instagram know their terrible work experience and friends. Some of the biggest threats to the employer to avoid:

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Kansas City approved minimum wage increase to $ 13 in the year 2020

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By Heather Hollingsworth

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City minimum wage increase to $ 13 per hour for about four and a half years under an order that the members of the Council approved on Thursday, but there are questions as to whether it could withstand an appeal.

The order in which they approve the city the only Missouri a higher wage than the current $ 7.65 minimum condition made, had the support of low-wage workers who in applause after members forums broke and agreed Mayor Sly James to approve it. The measure would apply to Kansas City, Missouri, and not its twin city in Kansas.

Friday, July 17, 2015

Kansas City approved minimum wage increase to $ 13 in the year 2020,

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By Heather Hollingsworth

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City minimum wage increase to $ 13 per hour for about four and a half years under an order that the members of the Council approved on Thursday, but there are questions as to whether it could withstand an appeal.

The order in which they approve the city the only Missouri a higher wage than the current $ 7.65 minimum condition made, had the support of low-wage workers who in applause after members forums broke and agreed Mayor Sly James to approve it. The measure would apply to Kansas City, Missouri, and not its twin city in Kansas.

6 sample questions require employers to assess their personality

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By Shana Lebowitz

At least three-quarters of the more than 100 employees use personality assessments for outsourcing - and this number is constantly growing.

These tests are used to measure properties such as skills, work ethic, and emotional intelligence.

We joined Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Ph.D., CEO of Hogan Assessment Systems and now a professor of psychology at University College London to learn more about these ratings personality. The following six questions are examples of questions that you want to see the next time you apply for a job.

Note, however, that the ideal answer to each of these questions depends largely on the individual employer and the properties to evaluate them. For example, Chamorro-Premuzic says Kipp its agreement with the statement "I am good at what I do" could be used to measure either confidence or arrogance.

Chamorro-Premuzic said it is also important to note that some questions are never used to capture the personality of the candidates. Instead, employers are looking at all your answers to the values and skills come with dozens of his traits.

However, Chamorro-Premuzic provided generally seen a number of questions in Assessments of personality, with an explanation of what they might mean and how to respond. For each of them, candidates are asked whether they agree with the statement.

Harvard researchers found working mothers and daughters are more successful awareness Sons

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Good news "Women can have it all?" Trenches: According to a recent study, there are significant advantages for children growing up with mothers who work outside the home.

The study, which found 50,000 adults surveyed in 24 industrial countries that "girls, the mothers completed years of study were more likely to be employed and monitoring functions, and higher incomes," says Claire Cain Miller in Los New York Times.

And while working mothers do not affect racing son, they have an impact on their attitude towards housework. Men charged by working mothers spent more time in housework and childcare.

3 more unconscious bias in personnel decisions may surprise you

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By Shana Lebowitz

In an ideal world, an interviewer would assess candidates exclusively on their professional qualifications on the basis.

In fact, many other factors come into play - and what is part of the world from the candidate, or what their favorite teams. For the most part these prejudices are unconscious, so they are not always aware that they will influence our decisions.

We speak with Madan Pillutla, Ph.D., professor of organizational behavior at the London Business School who studies the trust and fairness in interpersonal relations, the three largest unconscious bias hiring decisions.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Walmart accused of same-bias class action

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BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts woman filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday accusing Wal-Mart falsely benefits for same-sex couples to refuse.

Jacqueline Costa said Wal-Mart has repeatedly denied health insurance for his wife until 2014, when the retail giant began with benefits for the same-sex spouse.

According to the French woman, the couple was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012, pledged $ 150,000 in medical bills.

5 tips to react a negative feedback at work

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By Alison Green

Ever get the feeling that he was ready when his boss gave critical feedback? If you're like many people, negative feedback can be difficult to hear, and that defensive or angry, or stop could . Even in the face of difficult feedback - but these reactions, while understandable, are used not react as almost as good as calm and professional. That's how it goes:

7 ways to deal with the long process of setting current employment

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If you are looking for a job, you may have felt that take too long, seems to an offer in the past to hang. You're right. A recent study on the website of the Employment Glassdoor.com found that the average interview process in the US It is now 22.9 days, almost twice the 12.6 days in the year of 2010.

It is a change that is outrageous that the added stress of job seekers. I will give you tips on how to give deal with this new reality in a moment, but first it is important to understand what motivates change.

On the surface, the trend towards longer-setting cycles seem counterintuitive. After all, as the war for talent heats up, employers are expected to fast, do not act more slowly, to lock in the best candidate. The unemployment rate just hit a seven-year (5.3 percent) and construction site CareerBuilder, said 49 percent of employers plan to full-time, permanent employees to hire in the second half of 2015, 47 percent in the previous year.

So what happens?

15 People do not have to show up early proved effective

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For sugar Rachel

Watch the habits of successful people, and one thing that often happens: Successful people get up early.

But before you try to reprogram your brain to sleep, keep in mind: So, yes, the first birds naturally for some end up getting some advantages, too.

A Spanish study suggested that owls sleep in maybe smarter than their peers in a related day, and the Italian researchers found evidence that "evening types" could be even more creative.

It may not be compatible with standard office work, but to show that these 15 people, often too late is certainly compatible with the success.

Monday, July 13, 2015

This simple acronym can help manage stress

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By Steven Benna

The work-related stress is inevitable in a line of work. However, the effects of excessive accumulation of stress can be harmful to you and your career.

The average weekly working time to about 47 hours, and with that comes increased stress. Stress at work can have a significant impact on the performance of the work, the quality of work and relationships with colleagues and superiors.

Stress expert Kathleen Hall, founder and CEO of the Institute for Conscious Living Network tension and helps people manage their physical and mental stress. It provides scientific advice in creating balance and reducing stress recharge.

Hillary Clinton called for more equality in the United States on income

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By Luciana Lopez and Jonathan Allen

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has put the fight for higher prices for everyday Americans in the heart of its economic program, first major policy speech of his candidacy for the White House salaries Mondays.

Clinton said, to increase the US economy in full swing, as middle-class wages steadily to wages and salaries of company executives.

Comic-Con Cosplay could be a career in Hollywood Costume

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By Sandy Cohen

SAN DIEGO (AP) - For now, it may be just a hobby, but for the fans in costume at the Comic-Con pop culture expo last weekend, the dress is a first step towards a career in his conversation.

Costume play - or Cosplay - has become an important part of Comic-Con. Thousands of fans and some celebrities also thoroughly dressed as their favorite characters from comics, film, television, video games and anime. Take pictures of cosplayers is cooler part of the experience of the Convention.

The most striking feature that effective leaders must not do

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By Shana Lebowitz

If you ask people to name the qualities of great leaders, intelligence is the only attribute that is considered a must.

But if you think all the great CEO is a genius, is wrong.

A meta-analysis by Timothy Judge, PhD, professor at the School of Business at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza noted that there is a very weak link between intelligence and leadership.

Friday, July 10, 2015

About 55 and overqualified: tips for older job seekers

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By Chris Farrell

Recently, I have this email from a woman named Patricia, 64 years old (she asked not to use his last name):

Long-term unemployed "," 99er "?". Who I am, I said to myself that question every day I use the term "[a 99er is someone whose federal unemployment benefits ran out - after 99 weeks]" couch potato ", etc. They call every name that is to happen ... and was caught, were interviewed, he spoke and said, all kinds of names and was always and over and over again, as "overqualified" I am who often lament and mourn told. "

More than 55 and "overqualified"
The framework of the story of Patricia is unfortunately familiar and resonate with other unemployed people over 55 who were told were overqualified when they applied for jobs. I here so I could advice to them and nobody else "overqualified" among the long-term unemployed to offer.

22 entrepreneurs will share the tips that they successfully made

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By Mike Nudelman

Regardless of how you define success, you can like a fleeting target and often feel heavy. To achieve self-confidence, passion and drive their objectives and to recognize when it arrives success is required.

In the table below, 22 executives and influential businessmen, the key share to its success.

Here's the Steve Jobs Way Gutsy 12-year-old landed a summer job at HP

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For sugar Rachel

Cold calling does not continue normally. Unless you happen to have the pre-teen, Steve Jobs, a copy of the phone book in Palo Alto, in this case, cold calling and value anywhere.

Case in point: With 12 Jobs wanted to build a frequency counter, but do not have the parts. Always sensitive, he suspects Bill Hewlett, CEO of HP, you may have a few extras. And so with the confidence of an eighth rare degree, he found the number of Hewlett in the phone book and called.

Court says workers AT & T may prohibit the use of prisoners Shirt

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court says AT & T can union members wearing T-shirts that on the front and "Prisoner of AT $ T" on the back saying "prisoner" to ban.

The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that AT & T Connecticut has committed an unfair labor practices by preventing employees who deal with the public to wear the suit for false arrest.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Burts Bees Burt Shavitz co-founder died at the age of 80

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By Richard Feloni

Burt Shavitz, the man shown with the logo of the brand of personal care products Burt's Bees died in Bangor, Maine, on Sunday at the age of 80, as a result of respiratory complications, US Today reported.

He was surrounded by family and friends.

Born Berg Shavitz Ingram - "Burt," and he almost done his whole life - a boy, the city was taken on their own in rural Maine in 1970 and built a multi-million, which was bought by Clorox Corporation in 2007.

Sanders said that income inequality is a "moral issue"

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Portland, Maine (AP) - The income inequality as "the great moral issue of our time," the Democratic candidate for president Bernie Sanders called for a noisy crowd of thousands in Maine contribute on Monday to the growing by restoring America middle class.

In a major speech in front of more than 7500 in Portland, Sanders stressed the need to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, give the reform of the criminal justice system and paid for at least two weeks of vacation for workers.

Recruitment company in July

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By Debra Auerbach, CareerBuilder

Can celebrate July 4 more, but if you are looking for a new job, there is still much to celebrate this month. Here are 20 leasing companies in July this year.

Monday, July 6, 2015

24 successful people truly wake up (really) early

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They say that the early bird catches the worm, and research suggests that there may be some truth in the saying.

The awakening (or before) the sun allows executives as Mary Barra, GM and Indra Nooyi of Pepsi, in order to gain an advantage in the day, boring tasks before the world out of bed

These "extra" hours also give them the opportunity to do something creative thinking suitable for training and time to do with the family.

Ahead, 24 risers to convince no attack, repeatedly.

Max Nisen and Aaron Taube contributed to earlier versions of this article.

How to manage disasters five interns

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By Alison Green

What should you do if your internship begins in the summer to feel like a failure - if you are bored, do another job, who promised, or struggling to make ends meet on low wages? Here are five ways the most common fields hit the skids and what you can do if this happens to you:

How to say "no" at work, without like an idiot

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By Robin Reshwan

A client of mine recently told me about an employee apparently attract skilled because he responded to a request for important business for its largest customers with a simple "No". He rarely goes well, if a customer or employer much (or even a moderate amount) of money means "no" to pay. And while I'm a fan of the less is more strategy, with two cards, no other words to mitigating its effects, it can often be a limiting career choice.

Here are some ways to reject applications without compromising their work:

Spouse or - using mathematics to find the best candidates for the job

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If you find the best candidate for the job or are looking for the right, settle down with a partner one can be stressful because you do not know who else is there, or how, with the people I've met is to compare.

Fortunately, a simple mathematical approach called "theory of optimal stopping" can help you to find the best person for the job.

Hannah Fry, a mathematician at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, says the theory in his 2014 TED Talk and recently published book, "Mathematics of Love." Essentially, it allows you to identify when the search stop and make a decision.

Friday, July 3, 2015

Experts speak of overtime How Obama to the rule could change millions of workers and employers benefit

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By Rachel Gillett

Since 1938 the US you have a policy in place to protect workers and overtime to ensure they. For the additional work they are paid

But acquired in the 70 years since the political force of the law, the parameters are rarely updated to take account of inflation. Several influential Americans expect changes.

"The problem we have now is that people these laws were designed to protect are no longer protected," said Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, a research center without profit, in a recent video-on protection over time.

Currently, the workers of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 1938 will fall, must be paid at least one and a half for every hour worked over 40 hours a week.

"No matter what your boss calls you - store manager, shift supervisor, deputy regional director - if his salary is lower than the threshold, it must be paid for overtime," Eisenbrey said. "This is a simple and important protection."

But the salary threshold for which the employee is entitled to overtime a simple $ 23.660 per year ($ 455 for the week). Anyone who did more than that can not receive overtime.

"That's less than half what it was worth 40 years ago," said Eisenbrey. In 1975, the FLSA comprised about 61% of all employees said - now protects only 8%.

Employers, he explained, easy to pay and overtime so that title currently senior employees and pay them just above the annual limit of $ 23.660.

"The threshold to workers from that protect victims of labor exploitation, but too small to really work," Eisenbrey said. "If we want the protection of overtime and it is believed to upgrade the Ministry of Labour the law."

"This problem has a simple solution: to raise the threshold for overtime wages and the rate of inflation," he said.

Initiated a new change in policy by the Ministry of Labour and supported leaders like President Barack Obama would bring in the 21st century by increasing salary threshold to $ 50,440 per year (or $ 970 per week) LSF. The rule change could also prevent future problems automatically updating the salary threshold based on wage growth over time.

This would affect nearly 5 million American workers in the first year of application.

"Today, many Americans work long hours for less pay than they deserve," Obama wrote in a Huffington Post opinion piece Wednesday. At a press conference Tuesday afternoon Eisenbrey applauded the proposed change of policy, said: "It's a win-win for the workforce."

Predicting work new employees will be revised or part-time workers to move, noted, citing a new study by Oxford Economics, that if the salary threshold would be raised even $ 808 per week contract, 76,000 part-time workers to fill labor needs of companies.

And according to an article on the Institute for Economic Policy Eisenbrey website under the new threshold, 3.1 million mothers and 3.2 million fathers are guaranteed overtime pay, which would affect some 12.1 million children.

Politics is not only good for employees who want a fair wage, Obama said in his development. The policy should entrepreneurs who already pay their employees what they deserve, he said, because they do, their employees often from competitors who do not undermine to help.

"This is how the United States to do business," Obama wrote. "In this country. Is the work of a hard wage for a fair day's wage of the heart of what it means middle class in America."

Damon Silvers, policy director and special adviser to the American Federation of Labor, said at the press conference on Tuesday that this is a common sense measure that the basic understanding of American workers that if become less and recovery is more work to be paid overtime.

"Unlike many things in Washington, which is very simple," he said.

According to the Ministry of Labour website, the White House Office of Management and Budget reviewed and approved the opinion of the proposed policy change, but the document is not published in the Federal Register.

Christine L. Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, the rights of the defense organization of the workers, said at the press conference on Tuesday that the standard should be in the Federal Register for public comment some time in the week it comes published.

Following the publication of the proposed rule change, interested parties may be writing comments www.regulations.gov as part of the social plan.

Owens predicted the rule was adopted end of 2015 entered into force early 2016. She said it is unlikely that the threshold at which to reduce currently proposed, as it is still below historical standards.

Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist of the Vice President Joe Biden, a senior fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and author of "The Agenda of reconnection: Reunification growth and prosperity," he wrote in a Washington Post put on Tuesday because it is a "rule change "that go comparable to an ordinance that does not by this Congress, where the Conservatives would definitely try to kill him.

He said the proposed threshold of $ 970 per week useful for several reasons:
  • "The salary threshold is a way to avoid labeling someone a" manager ", while clearly what your salary paid no management. So you can have a threshold value significantly higher than the average wage, which tends in our economy to the salary will be paid the typical production, nonsupervisory employee, someone who has clearly paid overtime. "
  • If the Ford administration increases the salary threshold in 1975 was 1.57 times the average wage. Today 1.57 times the average wage would be $ 1,050 per week, which is close to the lines of $ 970 per week.
  • In 1950 the legislator asserted that the salary threshold should be 25% higher than the starting salary of a college graduate. Today this would be a threshold of $ 1,000 per week.
  • According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, people in positions of real responsibility now earn anywhere between $ 1,520 and $ 3,995 per week. "In other words, this measure is the new threshold well below the level monitoring functions, and associated presumably free, at work."
  • The Labor Department Statisticsa is $ 970 per week, always at the bottom, such as non-supervisory workers with responsibilities to make the cut.
"We live in a time when the bargaining power of many people who depend on their salaries greatly reduced compared with the influence and the power of those whose income is derived from their portfolios of wealth," Bernstein wrote.

"This is not the first time in our history when these conditions have prevailed," he said. "In fact, it was the RSA acute realization that a function of government is to balance the forces, to help those who, risking exploitation, overwork absent overtime rules, and the inability of their claims born fair share of productivity growth were itself Generate ". Owens wrote in an editorial on Tuesday that workers in industries as diverse as retail, hospitality, accounting and oil and gas will benefit from the updated rules. "By offering a new salary threshold indicated will lead to growth, the Ministry of Labour took the first step to put improve the salaries of the middle class and overtime rules for its intended scope," she writes in.

"This is an important step in the practical work of the renovation of our country and overtime, only to more workers, including women, to ensure low-income and people of color people," writes Nancy Zirkin, vice president and general manager of the policy Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, in a press release.

Of course, not everyone is convinced. Some conservatives and business groups argue against raising the thresholds because they believe it is too high, or that might reduce workers' compensation.

But overwhelmingly the rule change was met with resounding support.

"We welcome the Obama administration and labor minister Thomas E. Perez for this important step to ensure that more workers can pursue the American dream," said Zirkin.

3 steps to follow his career

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By Hallie Crawford

You are your greatest asset, and as an extension of this, is one of his best qualities to his work.

Like any asset, your career is something you should pay attention to promote and over time retain their value. If you treat your job as an asset - a you, but want to work for you in return - they are better able to make good decisions about your career in the long run.

For his career to an asset that must be completed by you and provide the rewards you want - financial and otherwise. And in return, you should remain challenged market and continue to be successful.

How can you ensure that your career is really an asset, and treats them as such? Ask a strategic career plan is a crucial first step.

13 things to do successful people, the weekend of 3 days

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By Jacquelyn Smith

We went for a weekend - and have planned the most successful people (or at least thought), what to do in the next three days.

"Successful people realize how important it is to enjoy a long weekend to charge to their passions and their batteries recharge," said Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of "You can not be serious! Add Humor to work ".

They work very hard the day before the three-day weekend to maximize their free time, adds Lynn Taylor, an expert on national work and author of "Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant-: How to Manage childish behavior and thrive in chief his job ". Also compartmentalize all work-related tasks, the three days slide separated from his coveted leisure in their weekend. "They know that when the two are mixed in the other, is likely to feel cheated," he said.

Plan ahead for a weekend of three days is important because you do not want to the relatively rare opportunity to decompress from the office to lose. Taylor said: "The long weekends are different from the end of normal week, because you know that you have more time to relax, to tie up loose ends, personally, to catch up with the important people in your life, or take before a project and the time it is not. -Renewable resources. How is issued, must be in line what you need to be happy in achieving short and long term. "

Unsure of how to make the most of the next 72 hours? We have a few ideas.

Here are 13 things to do successful people who so three days:

15 questions to ask a job in a new city before accepting

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By Jacquelyn Smith

We asked readers are questions on the most pressing career combined.

With the help of Lynn Taylor, an expert on national work and author of "Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: Managing boss childish behavior and thrive in their work", said the following: "M 'was offered a job in another state like. I can decide whether relocation is the right decision? "

"It would be nice if all jobs were the best in your garden, but sometimes the position you really want, is hundreds, even thousands of miles away," said Taylor. "Resettlement is like a high-risk proposition with too many unknowns seems. Even if you are disappointed with your current location, at least it's the devil you know."

You can also easily with questions, not on the work of his life, as the in the city, getting familiar with the area, proximity to friends and family - influencing your partner or your relatives and his upcoming move might. "That's not a decision we take lightly," said Taylor. "But the axiom" no risk, no reward "rings true in the practice of outsourcing."

She says that if you do your homework and can withstand a little adventure ", the results can be life changing."

So if you are considering this option, here are 15 questions to ask yourself before making a decision:

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

How to be an excellent reference

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By Vicki Salemi

The next time a colleague, withdraws without their team or pay his great mentor moved to another role, think about how you can help with testimonials. We often think that to be our references, and finally our praise for prospective employers to sing, but never about how useful it is, before thinking pay.

Many people think of a reference at the last moment as the filling applications and the need to give three names that can serve as references. But if you take this proactive approach, there are several ways in clock, can be an excellent reference and former colleagues to help advance their careers:

Obama suggested that more than 5 million Eligible OT

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By Christopher S. Rugaber and Josh Lederman

Workers would earn almost $ 1000 a week, the overtime was on a proposal by President Barack Obama announced on Monday complained that many Americans are working too many hours for less pay than they deserve - WASHINGTON (AP).

The Department of Labor rule overtime expect more than twice the threshold, to avoid paying for the employer and overtime from the current $ 455 per week $ 970 per week for the next year. This would mean employees who would earn less than $ 50.440 per year are made available to overtime if they work more than 40 hours per week, against the current $ 23,660 per year.

"We have to do the hard work will be rewarded to continue," Obama wrote in an editorial in the Huffington Post. "This is how the United States to do business. In this country, the work of a hard wage for a fair day".

19 ways to destroy his career slowly

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By Emmie Martin

There are big mistakes that can ruin your reputation instantly at work, or even learned. But mostly it is the gradual accumulation of minor offenses that keeps employees to succeed in their careers.

Bad habits, such as the fast responses to e-mails or for yourself to keep the whole day could harm its reputation - whether you realize it or not.

Here are 19 misconduct that slowly erode its credibility and will cost in the end.

Mark Zuckerberg shows why only $ 1 per year

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By Rachel Gillett

In 2013 his Facebook confirmed founder and CEO earns $ 1 Salary per year.