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Want to Ace That Interview? Make Sure Your Strongest Competition Is Interviewed On a Different Day
Whether an applicant receives a high or low score may have more to do with who else was interviewed that day than the overall strength of the applicant pool, according to new research published in
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To Keep Your Office Resolutions, Start Small
The New York Times: Q. It’s two weeks into the new year, and you can already see your work-related resolutions start to fall by the wayside. This happens every year, so why do you keep
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If We Go Over the Fiscal Cliff, Will People Spend or Save? Childhood Environments May Hold the Key
In the face of hard times, which strategy gives us the best shot at survival: saving for the future or spending resources on immediate gains? The answer may depend on the economic conditions we faced
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How To Make Better New Year’s Resolutions
Slate: It’s that season again, when we resolve to accomplish a list of goals in the coming year. Not infrequently, these are the goals that we were resolved to accomplish during the preceding year. If
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Want That Promotion? Practice Your Job.
The Wall Street Journal: As the new year approaches – and with it the inevitable wave of self-improvement plans–we’ve identified 10 strategies for advancing your career in 2013. (Read them all here.) From recovering from
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Beware Stubby Glasses
The New York Times: If you want to deter crime, it seems that you’d want to lengthen prison sentences so that criminals would face steeper costs for breaking the law. In fact, a mountain of