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Employing people who are interested in doing a job is a better way to ensure that the right person is hired for the job than depending only on the applicant's vocational interests, says a new study. 
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There is a lot of evidence of the effect of job loss on peoples’ future earnings and employment opportunities. New research into the impact of fathers’ job loss on their child’s educational attainment, for the first time in the UK, finds significant effects on the next generation.
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The secret to excelling in a job interview may not hinge on how much your interviewers like you, but in how much you like yourself. Narcissists scored much higher in simulated job interviews than non-narcissists, researchers found.
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Your Facebook profile may accurately predict your job performance, a new study contends,.
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(AP) -- Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.
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Washington and Lee University provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity, and civility.
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Imagine the following scenarios: a co-worker is spoken to condescendingly, excluded from a meeting, or ignored by a supervisor. How does it make you feel? Do you feel differently depending on whether your co-worker is a man or a woman?
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Information technology is reducing the need for certain jobs faster than new ones are being created. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Teenagers who have unclear career aspirations, or whose ambitions are mismatched with their educational expectations spend more time in unemployment as adults and achieve lower wages according to a new University of Sussex-led study.
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Why do some get more out of training than others? One major factor is motivation, leading to such outcomes as greater skill acquisition, higher post-training confidence, and stronger intentions to apply the learning in the workplace. More about MOTIVATION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=motivation
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A job can increase the risk of depression in both men and women, but for different reasons, a new study from Canada suggests. DEPRESSION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=depression
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A study in Spain shows that insecurity at work is directly and negatively linked to satisfaction in work and life, as well as affecting performance and commitment. Furthermore, the research reveals that the consequences of this insecurity are different according to the occupational group they work in.
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While personal matters such as family problems and living situations might cause the most stress for women, new research shows it's on-the-job issues that cause men the most anxiety.
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Moral imagination is an essential faculty for workers who must overcome the stigmas of ethical conflicts and social rejection associated with certain types of jobs, according to a study carried out at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid.
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Want a job where the talent is scarce -- and likely to remain that way for at least the next five years? Become a data scientist.
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Civil society demands a certain amount of diplomacy -- even if those rude co-workers in the comic strip "Dilbert" are pretty funny. But planes have crashed and patients have misunderstood diagnoses as a result of people being too polite. Indeed, the higher the stakes, the more polite people often get -- exacerbating the static that disrupts effective communication, according to an article published recently in a journal of the Washington, D.C.-based Association for Psychological Science. It's a problem, and some businesses -- including a number of airlines -- are addressing it by training employees in how to recognize when the time has come to skip the finesse and be blunt.
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(Medical Xpress) -- New research at ANU has revealed that poor work conditions can adversely affect people’s health.
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American unemployment has remained above nine percent since the onset of the Great Recession despite ongoing technological advancements which are meant to deliver more jobs. What can explain this? "America's current employment woes stem from a precipitous and permanent change caused by not too little technological progress, but too much," says The Economist's American correspondent N.V. Unlike past technological gains, which have replaced blue-collar workers, machines are beginning to take middle-class jobs.
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