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...company mention your name. Each year, the staffing consultancy CareerXroads surveys large firms about where they find new hires, and since at least 2005 the top spot has held steady: some 27% come from referrals. (Job boards, by comparison, have fed firms a consistent 12% of new hires; the rest come from recruiters, company websites, etc.) The difference today is that a lot more of those recommendations start with connections made through online networks. A recent report by market researcher Nielsen found that people now spend more time using social networking sites than they do personal e-mail. (Read "Your...
...here. Alan Schwartz, who was formerly the head of the failed investment bank Bear Stearns, recent landed a job at one of Wall Street's so-called boutiques, Guggenheim Partners. He's not alone. Recruiters say not only was the job downturn in the financial industry shallower than the rest of the economy but it appears to be turning earlier as well...
...rest of us might be forgiven if we view Baucus' prediction with a little more skepticism. After all, universal health care is a cause that comes around every 15 or 20 years in Washington, and Presidents as far back as Woodrow Wilson have tried and failed to make it happen. The last big effort, in 1993 and 1994, was a political disaster that set Bill Clinton's presidency back a year or more. (Watch a video about a woman living without health insurance...
...Qantas 330s and the rest of the Airbus 330 fleet, Dubon says they will continue to fly with their same ADIRUs until directed otherwise by investigative authorities. "The [Qantas] investigation is still ongoing, and we're still involved in giving technical assistance to that, but no final recommendations have been made," he says. "And obviously, when the investigators do, then we will act on those...
...filled with promise and infinite hope, and at times profound gratitude to all those who believe in our task, which is to improve the human condition. A great man, Camus, wrote at the end of his marvelous novel, The Plague: "After all," he said, "after the tragedy, never the rest...there is more in the human being to celebrate than to denigrate." Even that can be found as truth - painful as it is - in Buchenwald. Thank you, Mr. President, for allowing me to come back to my father's grave, which is still in my heart...