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      • Praise Gives a Psychological Raise
        12/31/08
        Praise Gives a Psychological Raise

        In this uncertain job market, with employees worrying about
        the health of their companies and their own futures,
        encouragement is especially reassuring. In tough economic
        times, when companies need to re-evaluate raises and
        bonus

      • Fear of Failure Scares off Many Successes
        12/30/08
        Fear of Failure Scares off Many Successes

        Of all the fears that come with being in business, I think
        the fear of failure is the worst, the most paralyzing and
        the most costly.

        Costly? How can that be? Don't the actual failures
        themselves cost a lot of money?

      • Minneapolis tied for most literate city in US
        12/29/08
        Minneapolis is tied with Seattle as the most literate city in the US. Read the full article here.

      • December Diversity Minnesota newsletter
        12/22/08
        Check out our December Diversity Minnesota newsletter.

        It's located here.

      • Hiring Employees - It's Not Just Luck
        12/19/08
        Hiring Employees - It's Not Just Luck

        This is basic information concerning the importance of
        planning and knowing what kind of employee you need before
        beginning the recruitment process. You will learn how to
        conduct a simple job analysis, establish minimum
        requir

      • Minnesota unemployment up to 6.4 percent
        12/18/08
        Minnesota Employment and Unemployment Release
        Minnesota's unemployment rate rose by five-tenths of a percentage point to 6.4 percent in November on a seasonally adjusted basis. Employment fell by 10,500 over the month on a seasonally adjusted basis.

        Source Minnesota DEED

      • Trim Your Advertising Budget with MINNESOTAJOBS.COM
        12/17/08
        Trim Your Advertising Budget with MINNESOTAJOBS.COM

        Now is a great time to evaluate your recruitment advertising
        approaches. Why use the big national (and expensive) career
        Web sites when you have a local Web site with a national
        reach just a click away?

        MINNESOT

      • Like us? Tell Weddles!
        12/16/08
        Like us? Tell Weddles!

        A great Web resource for job hunting is Weddles. They put
        out a pretty good job seeker newsletter (we subscribe)
        and strive to be the leader in Internet recruiting resources. They
        also have a poll of favorite Web sites. If you like us, please let
      • 3 Job Search Strategies For Today's Economy
        12/15/08
        3 Job Search Strategies For Today's Economy

        OK, things in our economy aren't going so well. Though I can't look
        into the future to see what will happen, what I can do for you today
        is share three tips that will increase your odds of getting the job
        you want.<

      • Don’t Let Your Job Search Take a Holiday
        12/10/08
        Don’t Let Your Job Search Take a Holiday

        Each year, there are plenty of reasons that the holidays are the best
        time for a job search. Here are three: less competition, ample
        networking opportunities, and end-of-year budgets/hiring needs are
        working in your favor.
        Full

      • HRP-MN Holiday Social & Fundraiser for CornerHouse
        12/03/08
        HRP-MN Holiday Social & Fundraiser for CornerHouse

        Make sure that during this holiday season you plan to attend
        the 2008 HRP-MN Holiday Social and Fundraiser for
        CornerHouse. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, December
        10th at The Women’s Club of Minneapolis. The fes

      • Keep up to date on job fairs
        12/02/08
        Every few days our staff call our contacts, check out the local papers, poke around the internet and do whatever we can do to find career events and job fairs to list in our career event/job fair calendar. Bookmark the calendar to keep up to date on upcoming job fairs. If you are aware of any job fa

      • 5 Tips to Capturing the Job With a Thank You Letter
        12/01/08
        5 Tips to Capturing the Job With a Thank You Letter

        Is there any other interviewing technique that will set you
        apart like a Thank You Letter? Possibly not – and studies
        have shown that only 20% of candidates remember this crucial
        step, and of that figure, nearly 80% get hi

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