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• Want to keep your job? Get more education

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  A recent survey by the Career College Association reported that 9 out of 10 Americans think college is important for career opportunities and 67% believe that education is the key to competitiveness in the global economy. Turns out education can also be the key to keeping your job in an economic downturn. Recent ...
  5 hours ago

• Start advertising in Scottish papers, councils in Scotland are told

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Main Scottish titles suffering after council job adverts transferred online The government has urged councils in Scotland to go back to advertising jobs in Scottish newspapers to help reverse a steep decline in the sales and popularity of the countrys main titles. Scotland Office ministers warned that Scotlands ...
  12 hours ago

• Accenture Going to Hire 8,000 by Next Year

  
  Ub News — Authority: 569
  Accenture Going to Hire 8,000 by Next Year – One of the biggest consultancy giant and global technology leader, Accenture is going to hire approx. 8,000 people in India by the end of next year. According to Accenture, it wants its total employee base in the country up to 50,000 by next year. The Chairman [...]
  15 hours ago

• BMW October sales up 2 pct; Audi up 0.4 pct

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  German carmakers BMW AG and Audi AG said Monday their October sales improved as the global downturn showed signs of waning and demand for luxury cars improved.
  16 hours ago

• Roy Greenslade: Why we will not mourn the loss of London Lite

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  When I posted an item on Friday that mentioned the closure of London Lite , a commenter ( courtstown ) took me to task for a lack of empathy towards staff who will lose their jobs. That is wholly untrue. One of my old friends and colleagues works on Lite and I called him immediately I heard the news to offer ...
  17 hours ago

• Roy Greenslade: Reasons for Mirror closing final salary pension scheme

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  It is little surprise that Trinity Mirror wants to close its final-salary pension scheme . As long ago as June last year, the Sunday Times was reporting that trustees were concerned about the state of the funds. In March, Media Guardian revealed that the deficit had grown from £124.8m to £206.9m during ...
  17 hours ago

• Roy Greenslade: Murdoch pays $1m a month to rent an empy office

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  Yet another digital headache for Rupert Murdoch . His News Corporation is paying more than $1m (£600,000) a month to rent an empty office complex in Los Angeles that it has been unable to sub-lease since scrapping an ambitious plan to move MySpace and its other digital businesses there. The company is locked ...
  17 hours ago

• Roy Greenslade: South African title closes after three years

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  The Weekender , the paper published on Saturdays in South Africa as a sister title to Business Day , has closed. Founded in 2006, the upmarket paper, owned by BDFM , announced that it was due to "insurmountable financial difficulties occasioned by the ongoing economic crisis in South Africa and the rest of the ...
  17 hours ago

• A New Christmas Song for 2009

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 126
  The Recession is still here this Christmas and it has inspired this new song for the season:
  18 hours ago

• Trade groups taking a beating in downturn

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 965
  Bob Dziuban, executive director of a Fairfax-based trade group for manufacturers of prescription eyeglasses, has been working overtime the past few months. His organizations annual trade show is coming up, and hes been trying harder than ever to give potential attendees a way to justify the...
  21 hours ago

• Fall Forecast for the Housing Industry

  
  Atlanta Real Estate Forum — Authority: 437
  Thanks to a recent article from Big Builder magazine, we have updates from the 2009 Annual Fall Forecast Conference, which discussed what is in store for the building industry for the rest of 2009 and early 2010. The conference was well attended, probably because everyone in the real estate industry is hoping that the ...
  1 day ago

• Broader unemployment rate hits 17.5% as companies get smarter about staff

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Economy The weekly blizzard of economic statistics makes it tough to figure out what is really going on. But with a near-record number of people unemployed or underemployed, productivity at very high levels, and pay rising for the people who still have jobs, one conclusion seems to jump out: Companies ...
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• India may ‘wind down’ fiscal stimulus next year, says PM (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the measures taken by his government helped India brave the financial crisis better than most countries, but it may “wind down” by next year the fiscal stimulus that was launched last December.“I am happy to say that India has been able to face ...
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• ‘Bahrain can become India’s conduit to Gulf’ (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Bahrain can be the conduit for channelling the synergies of India and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the head of Bahrain’s Economic Development Board said here Sunday.“Like Bahrain, the gateway to the growing market of the Gulf, India is one of the most strategically located ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 days ago

• U.S Unemployment Rate Shoots Up to 10.2 %.

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  The global economic downturn has taken a serious toll on the United States as the world’s most powerful country witnessed a tragic hike in its unemployment rate, that now stands at 10.2%. This unfortunate statistical figure has been attributed to the massive layoffs being done by the companies to save their own ...
  3 days ago

• Are Americans Afraid of Overseas Travel?

  
  Brave New Traveler — Authority: 543
  Photo: smokeonit According to Nomadic Matt, Americans still aren’t traveling abroad. But what is the real reason? For me, going abroad – admittedly with a bit of trepidation and fear – my junior year of college was something I decided to do in part because several good friends had already done the same ...
  3 days ago

• Roy Greenslade: Graph shows lengthy decline of US papers

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  To understand the 20-year circulation decline of the leading US newspapers - and the rise of the Wall Street Journal - see this graph . The comments are interesting too because they show, rightly, that there is no simple correlation between most of the sales falls and the rise of the internet. Source: THE AWL ...
  3 days ago

• Are You Ready to Escape from a Corporate Job?

  
  My Global Career — Authority: 118
  In a weak economy the tendency is for workers to hold onto their jobs a bit longer than they would otherwise prefer. Is it possible that in a downturn the best thing to do is counterintuitive – quitting corporate America to freelance, start a business or return to college? Better now than never – even if you ...
  3 days ago

• Boomers Adjusting to Change

  
  Small Business Boomers — Authority: 463
  I’ve discovered that many boomers and retirees don’t like change .  They have a preconceived idea of what their life should be like as they reach the “mature” years and then are discouraged when life doesn’t fit that mold. Boomers in retirement Image: sxc.hu Especially in today’s world, with the ...
  3 days ago

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