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Everything You Need to Know About Job Referrals
Rawpixel.com/Unsplash Over one-third of new job offers go to candidates who received a referral, according to data gathered for PayScale’s latest report, The Impact of Job Referrals. But not all...
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Resume Writing Tips: 5 Tips to Get the Hiring Manager’s Attention
WOCinTechChat/Flickr Maybe you’re embarking on a new job search, or maybe you just want to be prepared when opportunity knocks. Regardless of why, you’ve decided that it’s time to update your resume....
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American Workers Are Getting More Sleep These Days
Adrianna Calvo/Pexels Americans are sleeping an extra 7.5 hours per year, on average, according to a study recently published in the journal Sleep. Using data from the American Time Use Survey,...
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Trump’s Tariff on Solar Panels Could Cost 23k Jobs, According to Industry...
Pixabay/Pexels Earlier this week, President Trump approved a 30 percent tariff on certain imports, including solar panels. The decision was positioned as a move to protect American manufacturing from...
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Who Benefits From Job Referrals?
Pixabay/Pexels Employers love hiring through referrals. These candidates are more engaged and report higher job satisfaction, better relationships with their managers and less intent to leave. But what...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: What Recruiters Are Looking for Right Now
Pixabay If your New Year’s resolution was to find a new job, and you haven’t made much headway yet, maybe you’re not showing recruiters and hiring managers what they want to see. That doesn’t mean that...
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10 Companies Hiring for Remote Jobs
Pixabay/Pexels Want to work from home? You don’t have to choose between flexibility and working for a top employer. FlexJobs recently published its fifth annual list of the top 100 companies who hired...
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Read the Job Ad That Proves Workplace Sexism Is Alive and Well
Earlier this week, the U.K.-based agency RMS Recruitment posted an ad for an Executive Assistant and Investor Relations Associate. The ad went up on Guardian Jobs, Independent Jobs and LinkedIn, among...
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PSA: Don’t Take Job Referrals From Your Family (It Could Cost You)
Tim Gouw/Pexels When it comes to getting job referrals, not every recommendation adds to your bottom line. PayScale’s latest report, The Impact of Job Referrals, shows that referrals from friends and...
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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase Tackle Healthcare
AndrijTer/Getty Images This morning, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced that they will partner to create a new healthcare company. The goal: Providing lower-cost, higher-quality...
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ADP: Private Payrolls Added 234,000 Jobs in January
negativespace.co/Pexels Prior to this morning’s job report from ADP, economists polled by Reuters were predicting the addition of 185,000 jobs to private payrolls. Instead, payroll processor’s data...
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Should Any President Get Credit for a Booming Economy?
Aaron Burden/Unsplash Last night, in his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump welcomed a “new American moment,” saying, “There has never been a better time to start living the...
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How to Write a Resume in 7 Easy Steps
Fabian Irsara/Unsplash Are you looking for a new job, or hoping to make a big career change? It can be daunting to stare down a blank piece of paper and start your resume from scratch. Sometimes, the...
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The Real Reason You Should Ask for a Raise
Pixabay Over half of respondents to PayScale’s survey said they’d never negotiated salary. Why? For the most part, it was because of fear. Of respondents who didn’t negotiate, 28 percent said that they...
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Jobs Report: Payrolls Added 200,000 Jobs in January
brownpau/Flickr The economy added 200,000 jobs to public and private non-farm payrolls last month, according to this morning’s report from the Labor Department. The tally exceeded estimates from...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Win Arguments … With SCIENCE
Pixabay/Pexels Even if you get along with your coworkers most of the time, sooner or later, you’re going to have a difference of opinion with them. That’s just what happens when everyone’s invested in...
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Here’s How Many Hours You Need to Work to Buy Super Bowl Tickets
artisteer/Getty Images Want to attend Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis, Minnesota? Hope you’ve got a couple thousand bucks lying around. Because according to Stub Hub, the cheapest ticket (as of this...
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‘How I Got Fired the First Week on the Job’
retrorocket/Getty Images When you’ve been fired, it feels like you’re the only person in the world who’s ever lost their job. Then, you start talking to your friends and family and discover that it’s a...
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Quits Rise to Highest Level in 17 Years
Timon Studler/Unsplash More U.S. workers are quitting their jobs. According to the Department of Labor, 3.26 million Americans quit their jobs in December, the most since the beginning of 2001. The...
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Your Dimly Lit Office Might Be Making You Dumber
If you work in a dimly lit office, your brain may be changing — and not for the better. Recent research from Michigan State University suggests that spending time in poorly lit rooms may affect...
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