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Job Seekers Turning To Online Social Networks
Websites such as LinkedIn help employers and job candidates find one another through common bonds.
Almost as soon as Guang-Yu Xu was laid off from his engineering post at a Silicon Valley Internet company last month, he visited LinkedIn.com and updated his job status from “current” to “past.”
Through their interconnected contacts, he soon heard from headhunter [...]
Opinion: Dmitry A. Medvedev – Russia’s President on Building Russian-U.S. Bonds
MOSCOW — It is hard to dispute the pessimistic assessments of the Russian-American relationship that prevailed at the end of last year. Unfortunately, relations soured because of the previous U.S. administration’s plans — specifically, deployment of the U.S. global missile defense system in Eastern Europe, efforts to push NATO’s borders eastward and refusal to ratify [...]
World Leaders Ready To Test Obama At G20
In the closing weeks of his presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, warned that the world would soon test a young, relatively inexperienced president.
“Soon” has become “now.”
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrote in a Tuesday Washington Post op-ed piece that frosty U.S. relations would warm only if Mr. Obama backed off a range of [...]
Opinion / Henry Blodget: The Question Tim Geithner Refuses To Answer
Tim Geithner did a good job on the Sunday talk-show circuit yesterday. He has survived his near-death experience of two weeks ago, and the betting odds that he’ll be ousted by June have fallen back to 10%.
But there’s one question he still refuses to answer. Why is he bailing out the people who lent trillions [...]
Coming To An iPhone Near You – Skype & Free Calls
Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday.
We got a chance to sit down with the application’s principal engineer before the announcement was made at CTIA 2009, [...]
Opinion/Jack Cafferty: War On Drugs Is Insane
Here’s something to think about:
How many police officers and sheriff’s deputies are involved in investigating and solving crimes involving illegal drugs? And arresting and transporting and interrogating and jailing the suspects?
How many prosecutors and their staffs spend time prosecuting drug cases? How many defense lawyers spend their time defending drug suspects?
How many hours of courtroom [...]
Banks Are Walking Away From Foreclosures
Mercy James thought she had lost her rental property here to foreclosure. A date for a sheriff’s sale had been set, and notices about the foreclosure process were piling up in her mailbox.
Ms. James had the tenants move out, and soon her white house at the corner of Thomas and Maple Streets fell into the [...]
Iran Offers Help To Rebuild Afghanistan, Crack Down On Drug Trade
Iran pledged on Tuesday to help Afghanistan with reconstruction and to cooperate in regional efforts to crack down on the booming Afghan drug trade, which has spilled over the border.
Iran’s statements at a conference on Afghanistan here suggest that Tehran is willing to coordinate its policies more closely with its neighbors and other countries — [...]
Crafting A Resume That Will Grab Recruiters
Crafting a resume that will grab recruiters
Some old rules no longer apply. Creativity can help, but going too far can ruin your chances for a job. Even in choppy waters, recruiters are still angling for the perfect job candidate.
But employers don’t have the time or resources to sift through all the applications churned up [...]
Petraeus: Military Reserves ‘Right of Last Resort’ for Threats Inside Pakistan
The U.S. military will reserve the “right of last resort” to take out threats inside Pakistan, but it would prefer to enable the Pakistani military to do the job itself, Gen. David Petraeus said Monday in an exclusive interview with FOX News.
The commander of U.S. Central Command was interviewed as the Obama administration prepares to [...]
