Talent Alley

A recent article in the New York Times captured the current employment turmoil that defines our domestic manufacturing sector. Although a number of companies do have staff openings, they’re discovering it’s very difficult to find candidates with the advanced technical skills that the company needs. Dispelling much of the media hype about our country’s decline [...]

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This week, Anne Fisher wrote a column for Fortune’s online magazine detailing the top 10 job interview blunders. The mistakes she details are pretty common, and can generally be categorized in two broad categories: lack of preparation and failure to focus on the company’s needs, not yours. With all the information available on the web [...]

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One of the staff members of Ragan Communications, a Chicago-based communications firm, posted a letter the firm received from an eager college student seeking her first job. The letter was uniformly awful, and the comments interspersed by the Ragan commentator were sadly hilarious. SUBJECT LINE: Question.. Is that a period and its twin, or is [...]

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