Big Pharma Pushes Drugs That Cause Conditions They Are Supposed to Prevent

"Osteopenia, or the risk of developing osteoporosis, was concocted as a disease at a World Health Organization osteoporosis conference in Rome in 1992 that was sponsored by two drug companies and a drug company foundation," writes Susan Kelleher in the Seattle Times.

What if you want to move a PC without turning it off?

The power went out in the DC area last night and the uninterruptable power supplies I have around the house began to beep off their funeral dirge until the last electrons were no more. Visions of Oliver Twist...please sir, I want more.

5 Perfect 'Spare-Time' Online Businesses

Advice from Yanik Silver on ways to develop income from home.

Viral Video Explained by Wall Street Journal

In reality, the big corporations invented viral videos...decades ago...because they were the only ones who could afford the equipment.

Direct and indirect cellular effects of aspartame on the Brain European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2008

This article ran in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and shows the direct and indirect effects of aspartame, and its metabolites, on the brain.

No More "Me Too" Marketing

"Me Too" Marketing, coined by this article by Kim Gordon, is the kind of marketing you see everywhere you look. People will open the Yellow pages and copy an ad for their industry, or they'll run an ad in a magazine just because they see someone else doing to the same thing.

Resume tips for telecommuter jobs

Getting a job that allows you to telecommute seems like a very attractive thing with gas prices the way they are. It's still an uncomfortable concept for a lot of employers though and prospects don't always present themselves in the best light for working under this model.

You're not getting the job -- 25 reasons why - CNN.com

25 reasons why you didn't get the job. The one thing that is always in common is you. With the job market tightening, being able to stand out (the right way) is absolutely critical.

The Brand Called We: How the Internet is Transforming Personal Branding Phenomenon

A friend of mine recently experienced a "Google background check." It turns out that the #1 search result for his name is a PDF document for a Class Action Lawsuit which happens to mention his name.

What does a nice car say about your Personal Brand | The Chief Brand Officer...

As I drive these days, I think about what a person's car is saying about them in terms of their brand.

A Resume Is a Marketing Tool, Not an Old-Fashioned Calling Card

The most enthusiastic response I ever got from a resume actually came from one that I sent out long before I had any real experience.

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How an Older Worker Can Get the Interview - US News and World Report

Article from US News on job finding challenges, and solutions, for the older portion of the work force. Includes tips for developing a resume that shows age as an advantage along with other tips on how to make a good resume.

Show Me the Money: The Right Time (and the Right Way) to Ask for a Raise

Let's face it – money is the reason most of us go to work.

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Standing out on the Big Boards: Learning How Keywords Can Help Your Resume Get Recognized

You've written a compelling resume and posted it on several job boards. Yet when you pull up the resumes in your job category, you see hundreds of people with your same level of experience and skill set. How can you make your resume stand out from the pack?

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Less Fat, More Substance: Clearing the Pork out of Your Resume

Job seekers face a mixed message when looking for advice about how to write a good resume.

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Think Before You Leap: Signs You Shouldn't Take the Job

Almost everyone I know who currently hates his or her job had a premonition that things wouldn't go smoothly when they first signed on to the company.

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Good-Looking on the Outside: You Are, After All, What You Present

I was reading a blog the other day written by a woman who was livid, positively livid, that a prospective employer had made a comment that she says alluded to her less than stellar wardrobe.

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Some Early Good Publicity: Going into the Interview with an Edge

The smart job seeker today conducts a focused job search that begins with research into companies from which he or she seeks employment. Gone are the days – if you're smart – of slapping a resume on a job board and waiting for someone to call.

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Your Best Cyber Foot Forward: Managing Your Online Professional Profile

Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the former mayor of Arlington, Ore., knows from personal experience how dangerous it can be to not monitor one's online presence.

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Managing Your Career: Growth Potential Versus Salary

I once had a friend who was so focused on a particular salary that she turned down a number of jobs that could have yielded her an amazing career in favor of a dead-end job that gave her the money she wanted immediately - but with no hope of a promotion unless someone else in her …

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Recipe for Disaster: Resume Gaffes to Help You Lose the Job of Your Dreams

In my years of hiring, promoting, and firing people, I saw a lot of resumes come across my desk. Most of them, frankly, were boring. Some of them were interesting and intriguing, and in many cases, the owners of those resumes won jobs and career advancement.

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How to combine a video resume with a standard resume

As the job market tightens and as human resource departments appear to strive to reduce you down to a series of keywords in a database, you need to find ways to stand out. Effective networking and using the right tools have become essential elements of employment.

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No experience? No problem. Resume and job search advice for new graduates.

As a new graduate, you have strong educational qualifications but probably feel you don't have much to offer in terms of "real-world" business experience.

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Using video to get hired

In this new age of cheap (free) streaming video, it's only natural that some will publish their resume as a video too. This can be good, if done well. However, video resumes are usually not done well. In fact a quick scan of video resumes on YouTube shows just how bad they can be.

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Standing out in the job market with a VisualCV

I remember a time when people would try all sorts of things to get their resume noticed: using colored paper, using paper that was a quarter inch longer than normal (so it would pop up in the stack), big fonts, headlines, cover letters that have made me cringe.

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