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Success Story of Laid of Person – Laid-off autoworker cashes in on PBA dream.

Posted by Jay     Tags: 4 January, 2010    457 views    (2) Comment

As everyone knows about Lee Iacocca, the man behind Chrysler Corporation after he was fired from Ford Motor Company! If you have not heard, you can look at here:http://www.achievemax.com/blog/2007/08/24/lee-iacocca/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Iacocca. Here are another success story from Tom Smallwood:Tom Smallwood was just a regular guy working on an automotive assembly line in a small town in Michigan. But when he lost his job two days before Christmas 2008, he decided it was time Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Forbes: Highest-Paying Companies!

Posted by Jay     Tags: 12 October, 2009    5,569 views    (0) Comment

Money isn’t everything. Early this year, Fortune Magazine released its list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Here we look at the highest-paying companies from that list, and how they stack up in other areas. At these companies, there is one position that earns the highest wage, so we also look at the benefits package, how other employees are compensated, the work environment and incentive programs. Sure, these companies pay the highest, but are they well-rounded? 1. Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Where Americans Earn The Most? Median incomes in these metro areas are the country’s highest!

Posted by Jay     Tags: , 8 October, 2009    819 views    (0) Comment

Though fewer Americans these days have salaries to brag about, and unemployment at is at 9.7% nationwide, there are enclaves of the country where the rich keep getting richer, figures released Tuesday show. Families earn the highest median income in the Bridgeport, Conn., San Jose, Calif., and Washington, D.C., metro areas, according to the latest numbers from the United States Census Bureau. (These areas are broader than the city limits; the Bridgeport metro area, for example, encompases Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Best Careers that Pay Well Even in this Recession

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: 8 July, 2009    849 views    (1) Comment

It seems no matter where you turn these days there’s bad news: entire neighborhoods in foreclosure, a volatile stock market, and unemployment rates at their highest in decades. While the recession is affecting us all, professionals in certain fields can feel confident that their skills will be needed no matter how gloomy the financial outlook. What’s the secret to staying employed and well-paid during an economic downturn? Choose your profession wisely. With the right career Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Managing your career skills you need to survive the next round of layoffs at your job

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: , 25 June, 2009    2,130 views    (0) Comment

What’s triggering fears and sleepless nights for many of us about the unemployment abyss is not the job-loss stats themselves, but the depth of the cuts—and the qualifications of some of the people getting jettisoned. The questions we keep hearing are: Why do highly skilled, seemingly essential people get cut while others don’t? Are there patterns? How can I make myself indispensable? In talking with employers about what they most value in employees right now, it became clear Read Full Article (Click here)...

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