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Using LinkedIn effectively as part of your job-seeking strategy creates opportunities that you won’t get from the classifieds or job sites alone. No matter your industry. No matter your circumstances. LinkedIn is the most powerful business networking site. It is the world’s largest professional network with...

Google the phrases job hunt and black hole and you'll turn up 55,700 results. The reason for this confluence of terms, as any job hunter will tell you, is that applying for a position increasingly involves two phases. Step one: Use the employer's online application center...

With leaner work forces, slower sales and tighter budgets, managers and executives need to motivate their employees to do more with less, according to Suzanne Bates, president and CEO of Bates Communications. Monetary incentives such as raises and bonuses are in short supply. Managers and...

The Madison City Council voted early Wednesday morning to approve an application for federal funds to grow the city's bio-agriculture industry, but held off on committing any of its own dollars yet. After debating a bus fare increase for more than six hours, the council took...

Long the subject of countless articles, blogs, and seminars: Do IT folks “get” the business? How do we achieve “business-IT alignment”? Perhaps its time to put this tired argument to rest. IT folks not only “get” the business, they are the business. The business of IT is...

Entrepreneurism is naturally contagious. What better way to spread it than through an Inventors and Entrepreneurs (I&E) Club? In January 2003 I was involved in launching Wisconsin's first I&E Club in Juneau County to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in which the...

WASHINGTON – Health spending will hit $2.5 trillion this year, devouring 17.6 percent of the economy, as the White House and Congress consider major changes to the healthcare system, U.S. government economists said on Tuesday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS, forecast...

As the clouds started gathering over the economy this past fall and winter, I heard the drumbeat grow louder from my security contacts who all gave the same warning: layoffs are going to exacerbate security problems. As pink-slipped workers start thinking about looking after number one,...