Tag: Work

In 2009, the number of unemployed Americans exceeded the tally of those working in the manufacturing sectors.
While the States once boomed because of their industrial prowess, tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs disappear every month. Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided, cites a globalized economy and unconcerned politicians for the loss of localized jobs.

A Canadian woman in her mid-30s needed a joband fast. She had two young daughters, was single, and living in a tiny Quebec apartment. So she turned to the Web, started a business, and hit a wall. I was having a hard time landing jobs. I was being turned down for gigs I shouldve gotten, she says. So the woman did what many female writers have often wondered about : she changed her name. She became James Chartrand, the founder of Men with Pens, a Canadian Web design and copywriting business whose testosterone-heavy Website declares itll help you hit the bulls-eye of success.

ON BOARD THE ASTROLABE, Southern Ocean, Dec 14 (Reuters Life!) - Getting to and from work can be annoying if you hit traffic, but for Mireille Raccurt, it takes more than 10 days of flying and sailing through treacherous seas to get to her job.

Dr Raccurt is a researcher with France's government-funded National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) as well as a lecturer at the Universite Claude Bernard at Lyon.

She has been traveling to the French scientific station in Dumont D'Urville in east Antarctica for eight summers now to conduct research on the Adelie penguin, whose population has dropped by more than 65 percent over the past 25 years due to the reduction in sea ice and a scarcity of food.

Knowing how to write a good resume is a survival skill because the resume is an item that helps you open doors. Without a good resume, you can't get an interview, which means you won't be able to get the dream job you have been waiting for. So if you are looking to get a job (not just any job, but the job you want), be sure to do things right and learn how to create an outstanding resume. Here are some quick tips.

Steam is a powerful cleaning agent. It sterilizes without detergent and can effectively detach dried-on muck from plates and cups. But do steam dishwashers live up to their hype?

Light emitting diodes, commonly called LEDs, are real unsung heroes in the electronics world. They do dozens of different jobs and are found in all kinds of devices. Among other things, they form the numbers on digital clocks, transmit information from remote controls, light up watches and tell you when your appliances are turned on. Collected together, they can form images on a jumbo television screen or illuminate a traffic light.

Shock statistics from the TUC reveal that one in five people are attacked or abused at work every year in the UK. So whos in danger and what can be done to make them feel safe?