Do appraisals make you want to stick your head in the sand? The reality is
that it’s your only chance to be as selfish as you can be at work.
By Wayne Clarke
Published: 6:42PM BST 15 Sep 2009
It’s all about you, your personal growth, what you want to achieve
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Nannies used only to be affordable to a wealthy elite. Now parents are finding if they share a nanny it can work out cheaper than nursery fees
Employing a nanny was once a hallmark of social status. Dual-income parenthood broadened demand for childcare. Now the internet and credit crunch are extending
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IN high school I took the train from my home in Briarcliff Manor, north of New York, into Manhattan to take dance lessons with Syvilla Fort in a studio over a bar on 44th Street.
KAREN PETROU
Managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics
AGE 56
NAME OF HER SEEING EYE DOG Ori – “my
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IT’S always fun to hear hiring managers recall the most boneheaded mistakes they have seen job seekers make during an interview: showing up in flip-flops, say, or taking a cellphone call while meeting the company president.
But that kind of cluelessness is rare. More common are the subtle
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Two minutes into my tour of Willingham auction house in rural Cambridgeshire, and already I have made a mistake. Among the polished jumble in this tastefully converted old barn is a battered kitchen dresser, an LCD television, a spindly little table known apparently as a “torchère”, an exercise treadmill on
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With unemployment rising to 2.4 million in Britain, the priority of most people who have been made redundant may well be to take any job they can.
However, redundancy can also give you the chance to start over career-wise and find the job you always really wanted in the first place.
Taking
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TEN years ago, when Amy Astley, then the beauty director of Vogue, began working on a prototype of a spinoff magazine for teenagers, the question she was most commonly asked by potential readers was this: “How can I become a fashion model?”
Lori Hawkins/Roadside Attractions
ACTION! Anna Wintour, left, in “The September
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DETROIT — The announcement of a new plant employing just 100 workers might seem like a long shot to attract the chief executive of General Motors, two senators and a raft of state and local officeholders from across Michigan.
Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
The chairman of G.M., Fritz Henderson,
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My company is doing the same thing,” the quiet voice at the other end of
the telephone told me. She wouldn’t give me her name. She was too nervous
about losing her job. She was talking about KeTech Group.
By Richard Tyler, Enterprise Edtior
Published: 6:27PM BST 07 Sep
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Corporate financier Chris Allner gives warning that stretched employers may
hold on to staff cash for as long as they can.
By Richard Tyler, Enterprise Editor
Published: 4:06PM BST 07 Sep 2009
Employees of small companies struggling to cope with the recession will find
that their pension savings could go missing,
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