Becky Blanton, 53, has worked for five major media companies, been an assistantadvertising director for a Fortune 500 company and owned her own newspaper. She's also currently writing a book calle
In a recession, one thing is certain: Change is coming, especially as firms tighten their belts, reorganize, merge with other companies or close. Needless to say, preparing yourself for these type
As employers proceed to hire with caution, tough economic conditions continue to affect job seekers of all demographics, and this year's graduates are not immune. The class of 2009 will enter a tougher job market than they may have anticipated when they began their studies. Forty-three percent of employers plan to hire recent college graduates in 2009, a decrease from 56 percent in 2008 and 79 percent in 2007, according to CareerBuilder's Annual College Job Forecast. The forecast surveyed more t
With an explosion of job seekers competing for fewer jobs, many people are turning to recruiters to try to tap into little-known opportunities in the job market.If you're enlisting this strategy in your job search, it's critical that you understand the possibilities and limitations of working with a recruiter, as well as how to present yourself throughout the process. Louise Kursmark, author of "15-Minute Cover Letter," says the most important thing to remember about recruiters is that they
Unless you're in complete denial of what's happening in the world around you, by now you're well-aware that layoffs are rampant in today's economy. In February 2009* alone, employers made 2,769 mass layoffs compared with 1,672 mass layoffs in the same month last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Each layoff involved at least 50 people from a single employer filing for unemployment insurance. Since December 2007, when the recession was declared to have started, there have been
O Sporting empatou a dois golos com o Tottenham, no último jogo da digressão norte-americana dos leões. A partida estava integrada no Torneio New Wokk Challenge, que deverá consagrar os leões como vencedores do troféu, com quatro golos e 3 pontos, num sistema de torneio que dá 8 pontos aos leões.
Sete incêndios em curso e outros dois já "dominados" na Malveira da Serra (Cascais) e em Pedreira (Viana do Castelo), estão a ser combatidos por mais de 400 bombeiros e cerca de uma centena de veículos e meios aéreos.
Several years ago, it seems like just about everyone saw the film Titanic. This past year, it seems the same was true for Avatar. And this past Summer, it seems as if everyone is seeing Inception. All three films share something in common: their use of Autodesk Maya, a piece of visual effects software. Now that technology has been ported to the iPhone and iPad.
Obviously, Autodesk Fluid FX isn’t going to be as powerful as Maya running on a hardcore system. But Fluid FX is nonetheless impr
Get out of the way, old man! You’re being Disrupted! Screw you, newspapers: blogs are stealing your readers and Craigslist is pillaging your revenue! Take that publishers: Andrew Wiley doesn’t need you and your stupid dead trees!
And as for you, hotels – ha! hotels! – if ever there was an industry ripe for disruption, it’s you clowns. Charging $300 a night for a bed and a shower and a tiny plastic enema of shampoo when AirBnB will let you get the same, and more, for $50, so lon
Earlier this week, ABC News launched a new iPad application that adds a twist to the way most apps present the news: a third dimension. Fire up the app and you’re immediately faced with a nifty-looking globe that’s covered in headlines and photographs depicting the day’s top stories; tap one and you’ll be linked to the relevant video clip or news article. It’s quite snazzy, at least from a looks perspective (more on that later), and it’s quickly risen to beco
The wiki-based site for whistler-blowers, Wikileaks, today released what it called "an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010."
"The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail."
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On a dedicated page for the reports, WarDiary, the ed
If you found those "Day in a Life" books fascinating, you may find YouTube's latest experiment, Life in a Day, equally interesting. If on the other hand, you found them disappointingly insipid, this may not be your bag.
Life in a Day is being marketed as a "user-generated feature film shot in a single day." The creators are asking people around the world to upload their quotidian videos to a YouTube channel. The director, Kevin MacDonald ("The Last King of Scotland"), will cut it together.
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