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For all the anti-bank anger erupting across the country, relatively few of us are actually leaving our financial institutions.

When it comes to finding your next employer, online job boards are out and social recruiting is in, says Robert McGovern, CEO of JobFox.com, a free website that enables job seekers to tap into private hiring networks. We chat with McGovern about the new era of online job hunting.

The professional social networking web site ResumeSponge launched Wednesday, offering to help job seekers organize their resume and expand their job hunting networks. The site is entering a marketplace that is growing increasingly crowded with the likes of Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other...

With many advertisers sitting out the big game to save money, commercial prices are down this year. But a recent study shows that avoiding the Super Bowl, even in a recession, may be the wrong play. Turns out, the best defense is a funny offense on the first Sunday in February.

With a consensus building that we've now seen the worst of this recession, economists worry that the recovery won't happen unless consumer spending bounces up. And that's going to take a while. A disturbing poll hints at why: 61 percent of workers live paycheck to paycheck. The number of people...

Shares of Gannett Co. (GCI), the world's largest newspaper publisher, rose more than 16 percent in pre-market trading after the company reported better-than-expected second quarter results. Net income at the McLean, Virginia-based parent of USA Today was $70.5 million, or 30 cents a share,...

The job market is tough, but tough enough to stage a sit-in just to meet with the director? Apparently so, that's just one of the methods retold to Careerbuilder.com in its survey of hiring managers which found a 6% increase in unusual tactics by job hunters from last year. It's actually one of the...

When I was in academia, my department's Christmas parties were an annual festival of drinking, dancing and fun. There was the feminist theorist whose flailing elbows and knees made her a force to be reckoned with on the dance floor, the conservative lit professor who would hit the grad students up...

A year ago, an old buddy of mine lost his job. I commiserated, but assumed, since he was a computer guy, that he was aware that many companies have abandoned the Sunday newspaper's job listing in favor of online sites. I was wrong; he wasted two months before catching on, two months I could have...