Clients Claim They Didn’t Get Job Help They Paid For Finding a job is hard enough on your own. Some people go to others for help. Clients of two companies that claim to help job seekers say they didn’t get the help they paid $6,000 for. The NBC 10 Investigators recently went into the Edison,
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Internet job hunt may have just gotten harder Do you know what the OFCCP is? It is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and that little taste of bureaucratic alphabet soup is a part of the Department of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration. The OFCCP’s job is to ensure “that employers doing business with the
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Face it: E-mail can’t land the job “We never talk anymore.” No, that’s not your significant other talking; it’s corporate America. According to a survey developed by OfficeTeam, a staffing agency that specializes in placing administrative professionals, executives today spend less and less time conversing with colleagues by phone or in person, and much more
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Job networking works, when you work it correctly: Matthew Bernius hit many low points on his way to snagging that coveted job. It began when Bernius returned to Rochester last summer after graduate school at the University of Chicago. He had just finished a yearlong educational leave from Eastman Kodak Co., and his one-time employer
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Cold calls can bring hot jobs Phoning strangers out of the blue to make an employment connection is a tactic job seekers can’t hang up on, Marjo Johne finds. When Maria Kim returned to Toronto after a two-year stay in England, she had no job and no prospects. But rather than fire off a bunch
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The job loss roller coaster Ed Widdifield got his first full-time job at 19 and thought he was set for life working for an automotive battery-manufacturing company. In the nineties, the company switched gears and got into fibre optics. Then came the telecommunications crash and, after 21 years, he and 250 colleagues lost their jobs.
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