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Overtime Pay
Current overtime pay standards including who is eligible for overtime pay, when you get over time pay, and how much you are paid for overtime work.

What Not To Do When Job Searching
If there is one basic rule of job searching, it is to always act professionally. Communicate, dress and act with class, regardless of the job you are applying for. Appropriate business etiquette applies to email as well as to your other employer communications.

Switching Gears: Tuning Up Your Career
Career advice on how tune up your career to position yourself for a successful career change, for growth in your current field or to change jobs.

Where Have All the Jobs Gone?
Since 2001, America has lost millions of private-sector jobs. Long-term unemployment at its highest level in many years. Where have all the jobs gone? Overseas, in many cases. In addition to cutting jobs to increase profitability, companies are looking overseas to save money in labor costs.

Age Discrimination
Age discrimination - how old is too old? Workplace age issues, strategies for overcoming them, and age discrimination law protections.

I Quit! How to Resign from Your Job
How to resign from your job, includes free sample resignation letters.

10 Steps to a Successful Career Change
Interested in a new job or career? Follow our Ten Steps to a Success Career Change to explore career options and choose a new career within or outside your current industry or career field.

Prepare for a Job Search
Sometimes, it happens by choice. Sometimes, you don't have an option. In either case, it's important to be prepared to change jobs - because you never know when it might happen to you.

Passion Pursuit: Baby Steps or Big Plunge?
Explore your passion, identify a new direction, and take action to create a career that leaves you energized and excited.

Job Search Classes
Register for our Job Search Classes for help and assistance with your resumes, cover letters and job search.

Job Search Etiquette
Business and employement etiquette during times of crisis

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