Careerbuilder, a popular online career site, conducted a Halloween survey and asked over 4,000 workers if their boss was scary. The Careerbuilder Halloween survey revealed that nearly one-in-five (18 percent) workers describe their workplace as scary because their bosses bear a strong resemblance to famous Halloween characters.

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) is proud to announce the Inaugural VetSuccess Career and Employment Resource Fair in Baltimore, MD, on Thursday, September 3. Sponsored by VA’s Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Service, the career fair will be held at the Sheraton Baltimore Center City Hotel from 1 PM until 5 PM.

The economic recession has left hundreds of thousands of professionals without work. In parallel this situation the advanced communication means have created new work at home business opportunities that few people see. In journalism and news reporting a number of work at home opportunities remain without being fully used.

On May 16, 2008, the USAID-funded Competitive Armenian Private Sector Project (CAPS) will hold the Second Annual Information Technology (IT) Career Fair. Top universities in Armenia offering IT programs - Yerevan State University, State Engineering University of Armenia, American University of Armenia and Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, as well as the Union of IT Enterprises (UITE) – are involved in organizing the event.

A two-year study of college students at The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) proves that students learn better and develop higher-level skills by participating in cooperative (team) activities, compared to traditional classroom teaching methods.

For the fourth year in a row, Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) has earned top workplace honors from the Triangle Business Journal, ranking as one of the top 15 “Best Places to Work” in Research Triangle Park (RTP) in 2007.

Job satisfaction amongst teachers has increased dramatically since 1999, with the profession rising from 54th to 11th in a league table of job satisfaction published this week.

People who let family demands interfere with work are given fewer career opportunities and have poorer relationships with their bosses, a study from McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business finds.