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Published: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
If you're in the business of providing services that require your employees to hold security clearances, there are two things that you definitely don't want to happen: for a leak to come from one of your contractors; and for the leaker to come forward [...] Read More >>
Published: Tuesday, June 04, 2013
When it comes to career advice, here at Vault we've always been of the belief that the best people to dispense it are those that have lived it. Thus: when we release our rankings of law, finance, accounting and consulting firms, all of the opinions in [...] Read More >>
Published: Monday, May 20, 2013
It's felt for a while like we're on the verge of a major step forward in how education is designed and delivered to students—and it seems like the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) may well be the future we've been waiting for.
More specifically, Georgia [...] Read More >>
Published: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
It's a mark of how much times and interests have changed that news of the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson from the manager's job at Manchester United made it into mainstream U.S. media last week. At the start of his managerial career, Ferguson leaving [...] Read More >>
Published: Tuesday, May 07, 2013
A few years back, one of the resume buzz phrases du jour involved describing yourself with some variation of the following: "good/great/strong/effective multitasker." It had all the hallmarks of a great catchphrase—it sounded fresh and exciting, it conveyed [...] Read More >>
Published: Monday, April 29, 2013
There's a serious disconnect between companies and potential employees in the United States—one that may be holding our entire economy back. And, contrary to the conventional wisdom, it's a problem that has been caused—and can only be cured by—companies. [...] Read More >>
Published: Tuesday, April 16, 2013
If you're out of work, there's one major factor that can predict how successful you're likely to be in your job hunt: the length of time since you last held a job—with an almost mystical dividing line setting in at the six month period. A recent article [...] Read More >>
Published: Monday, April 08, 2013
Did you know that Amazon keeps track of all the highlights that you make on your Kindle? And that it can count up all the individual highlights to create a list that gives us a snapshot of the things in books that people respond to; things they deem to [...] Read More >>
Published: Tuesday, April 02, 2013
In the summer of 2011, President Obama challenged U.S. employers to hire at least 100,000 military veterans and/or their spouses by 2013. The challenge came at a time when the unemployment rate for men and women who had recently completed their military [...] Read More >>
Published: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Nick D'Aloisio, a British teenager, has made headlines this week for selling the smartphone app he developed to Yahoo for a cool $30 million. As part of the deal, the app, Summly, will be shuttered (the technology will likely be folded into the overall [...] Read More >>
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