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How to Behave at Your First Job

You’ve landed your first job out of college. That wasn’t easy, in this tough time. Now you’ve got to make sure you keep it and succeed at it.How? You can start even before you arrive at work. Set up a Web news-alert account that emails you news stori

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How to Behave at Your First Job

You’ve landed your first job out of college. That wasn’t easy, in this tough time. Now you’ve got to make sure you keep it and succeed at it.How? You can start even before you arrive at work. Set up a Web news-alert account that emails you news stori

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When They Require Experience and You Have None

Lack of experience is often the biggest obstacle college graduates must overcome when entering the job market. Prospective employers can sound like a broken record, saying over and over, “You don’t have enough experience”–followed by the devast

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When They Require Experience and You Have None

Lack of experience is often the biggest obstacle college graduates must overcome when entering the job market. Prospective employers can sound like a broken record, saying over and over, “You don’t have enough experience”–followed by the devast

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When They Require Experience and You Have None

Lack of experience is often the biggest obstacle college graduates must overcome when entering the job market. Prospective employers can sound like a broken record, saying over and over, “You don’t have enough experience”–followed by the devast

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Too Scared to Take a Vacation from Work?

It always used to be that on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, almost everyone left early–if they went in to work at all. But as Paul Newman, an assistant vice president for human resources, looked around his office at Oppenheimer Funds in Man

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Why You Should Be Using Twitter in Your Job Search

If you’re among the millions of people looking for work, there’s one more social networking site you may have to join: Twitter.Twitter? For job-seeking? Consider Kyle Flaherty’s story. He left a marketing position in Boston determined to find an in-h

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Why You Should Be Using Twitter in Your Job Search

If you’re among the millions of people looking for work, there’s one more social networking site you may have to join: Twitter.Twitter? For job-seeking? Consider Kyle Flaherty’s story. He left a marketing position in Boston determined to find an in-h

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Why You Should Be Using Twitter in Your Job Search

If you’re among the millions of people looking for work, there’s one more social networking site you may have to join: Twitter.Twitter? For job-seeking? Consider Kyle Flaherty’s story. He left a marketing position in Boston determined to find an in-h

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The Top Things to Do When You Can’t Get a Job

If you’ve been out of work for several months and aren’t getting any interviews, or you’re going on interviews but not getting any offers, maybe it’s time to adjust your approach to job hunting.There’s no particular length of time after which the ala

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