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Job Markets
Efficiency Backlash: Businesses Find Too Much Downsizing Can Hurt the Bottom Line
One national restaurant chain realizes that overburdening its employees hurts sales, as well as the company brand. Will more businesses follow its lead?
Financial Independence? Today’s Young People Don’t Expect It Anytime Soon
In a mere two years, the proportion of teenagers who expect to be financially dependent on their parents until their mid-20s has doubled. That gives us all another reason to feel sympathy for parents who have teenagers right now.
Hey Walmart, It’s Hard to Make Sales When Store Shelves Are Empty
One way that Walmart keeps prices low is with minimal staffing levels in stores. But shoppers and workers alike are complaining that Walmart is understaffed, and the results include annoyingly long checkout lines and shelves that …
How to Flunk a Job Interview
These common mistakes will ruin your chances of getting just about any job.
3 Out of 4 Hires Fail: How to Beat the Odds
Bad hires suck up time, energy, and money. How to avoid them.
Why Being a Quitter Is a Good Sign for the Economy
You only quit a job when you’re confident you can find something better. And in December, more Americans since the start of the recession felt good enough to pack up their desk and look for employment elsewhere.
Ambassador of Buzz? Are Offbeat Job Titles Awesome or Unprofessional?
Why be just another generic “associate” when you could hold the job title of ninja, happy maker or ambassador of buzz? Then again, they might just come off as silly
It’s Not Me, It’s You: 5 Ways To Avoid Another Horrible Boss
A bad boss can drive you to the brink. How to make sure you never have one again.
Smoking: A Drag for Job Applicants?
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The article below was originally published at knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu.
Smokers need not apply — or need to quit — if they want to be hired at a southern Delaware …
Job Satisfaction or Long-term Job Stability? Turns Out It’s Hard to Have Both
Would you rather have a career that makes you one of the most in-demand workers in the economy of tomorrow, or one that leaves you deeply satisfied when the work day is done? Two new surveys rank careers on these criteria and, …
Whoever He Is, the President Elect Will Quickly Face an Economic Crisis
The U.S. is confronting a dizzying array of financial issues that will have to be dealt with early next year.