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Firms boost workplace benefits
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The 10 best retirement havens
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Poisoned by tainted coffee
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Jobboom Index
Québec 45,9 %
Employment situation
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November 1, 2009 Edition |
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Do you know your strong point?
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Focus on
Job seeking mistakes
There's nothing worse than a trivial but glaring mistake staring at you on a resume after a long and fruitless job hunt. From first contact to your first week, your performance must be flawless. Fear not, the job market is packed with other luckless souls, like legions of Baby Boomers back on the job market making novice mistakes.
Which job-searching mistake have you made?
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Media Watch
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Recognition
Firms boost workplace benefits
Despite all the doom and gloom of mass unemployment, many companies are boosting benefits to retain top Generation-Y talent.
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(Source: Chicago Tribune)
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Relaxation/Vacation
The 10 best retirement havens
Due to Mexico's current status as a failed state, Canadian snowbirds may have to find other winter retirement destinations.
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(Source: Canoe, Money)
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Newsworthy
Poisoned by tainted coffee
Even at the world's top medical research labs, coffee can be pretty awful. Harvard scientists inadvertently drank sodium-azide-tainted mugs of Joe.
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(Source: Canoe, CNews)
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Jobboom Poll
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Which job-searching mistake have you made?
- Answering your cell phone during an interview
- Making typos, grammar or spelling mistakes on your resume
- Under-dressing
- Being uninformed about the company
- Asking about salary/vacation, prematurely
- Giving longwinded, off-topic answers
- Being inconsiderate of support staff
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From the blogosphere
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The Juggle
This Wall Street Journal blog examines the choices and tradeoffs people make as they juggle work and family. The Juggle provides readers with news, insight and tips on parenting, workplace issues, commuting, care giving and other issues busy readers with families face. It's co-written by two veterans of the "mommy wars," Rachel Emma Silverman, a mother of an infant in Austin, TX, and Sue Shellenbarger, the WSJ's "Work and Family" columnist in Portland, OR, and a mother of two, stepmother of three.
Here are a few samples of The Juggle's best tips:
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