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ADP: Private Sector Added 158,000 Jobs in June
The latest ADP National Employment Report came in under economists’ forecasts of 185,000 jobs added — a sign that the economy may be nearing full employment. negativespace.com/Pexels “The job market...
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The PayScale Index Updated. Did Workers in Your Area Get a Raise?
The PayScale Index, which measures compensation trends across the U.S. and Canada, updated today to show the eighth consecutive quarter of wage growth in the U.S. Wages increased 0.5 percent from the...
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Jobs Report: Economy Added 222,000 Jobs in June; Unemployment Ticks up to 4.4...
brownpau/Flickr The monthly Employment Situation Summary from the Labor Department beat expectations, showing the addition of 222,000 jobs to public and private, non-farm payrolls. Prior to its...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Survive Networking When You’re Socially...
David Marcu/Unsplash If you’ve gotten a new job in the past few years, chances are that it was through networking. In fact, some experts say that as many as 85 percent of all jobs are filled through...
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5 Ways to Stop Working on Weekends
Image Credit: Chalabala/Getty Images If you’re reading this in on a Sunday, in between crossing items off your to-do list that should have been checked off by Friday afternoon, you’re probably not in...
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5 Signs You’re Underpaid
SergeyNivens/Getty Images Everyone could use more money, but how can you tell when you’re really underpaid? The answer isn’t to poll your coworkers or friends and compare your salary against theirs....
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Are Goats Coming for Your Landscaping Job?
Patryk Sobczak/Unsplash Saturday morning cartoons told the truth about one thing: goats will eat just about anything they can get their mouths on. That includes poison ivy and hard-to-weed underbrush....
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3 Tips for Remembering Names While Networking
daria_shevtsova/Unsplash Networking is about relationships, and there’s no quicker way to fracture a developing connection than forgetting a new acquaintance’s name. Of course, if you’re reading this,...
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How to Get Hired After You’ve Been Laid Off
Maybe you saw the signs of impending unemployment; maybe the pink slip caught you unawares. Whatever the sequence of events, you now find yourself laid off and without immediate job prospects on the...
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Worker Takes Mental Health Days, Earns Praise From CEO
PeopleImages/Getty Images Would your CEO thank you for taking a few days off to tend to your mental health? Maybe they should. As a recent story reminds us, mental health is just as crucial an issue...
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3 Salary Negotiation Tips for Reluctant Negotiators
rawpixel/Unsplash Only 43 percent of respondents to PayScale’s survey said they’d ever negotiated salary in their current field. So, if you’re not super excited about asking for more money, you’re in...
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How to Give Your Salary History and Get More Money Anyway
BAMCorp/Flickr Hiring managers shouldn’t ask for salary history. In addition to possibly working against female candidates, who may have been underpaid in the past, it doesn’t make sense to price the...
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5 Annoying Things That Happen During the Job Interview Process (and How to...
Even if you’re a wildly extroverted, optimistic person who loves meeting new people, job interviews are hard. You’re trying to cram an entire career’s worth of accomplishments into a meeting that may...
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TED Talks Are Making You a Terrible Public Speaker
Pexels In the decade-plus since they arrived, TED Talks have become incredibly popular with professionals, and for good reason. Where else can you see your favorite novelists, social scientists and...
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Is That Work-From-Home Job a Scam?
More employers have gotten the memo that telecommuting is good for workers and organizations, but not every company will let you work from home. The solution for some would-be remote workers is to find...
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Do These 5 Things and Be Happier at Work
Daniela Cuevas/Unsplash When you’re truly miserable at work, you might need to make big changes: a new job, a new boss, maybe even a new career. But between misery and your dream job lies a vast gray...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: The Hidden LinkedIn Networking Tool You’re Not...
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Why You Should Care About the BBC Gender Pay Gap
asvensson/Flickr Recently, the BBC released its annual report, which under the terms of its new charter revealed the pay of network stars earning more than £150,000 a year (around $195,000 in U.S....
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How to Avoid the Office Food Pusher
Pexels Getting along with coworkers can be hard under the best of circumstances. But if you work with food pushers, you face a particular challenge: how to avoid eating everyone’s leftover candy,...
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50 Companies Hiring for Part-Time Work-From-Home Jobs
Pexels One in six American workers currently works part-time, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Less than a quarter do so for economic reasons (meaning, they’d like to work full-time, but...
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