• Column: Is the startup that calculates your expected salary gamification or Big Brother?

    Column: Is the startup that calculates your expected salary gamification or Big Brother?

    Jan 06, 2017 11:03 PM EST

    ... the UK.” So far, most job hunting sites simply ask an applicant to upload a resume and then allow both applicants and recruiters to find the ideal match through searching for keywords. Making Sen$e "Ask the Headhunter" Nick Corcodilos has reported skeptically on the value of such sites. Adzuna, on ...

  • Column: A Massachusetts law is the most promising step yet toward equal pay

    Column: A Massachusetts law is the most promising step yet toward equal pay

    Aug 04, 2016 06:47 PM EST

    ... bill with a similar provision passed both chambers, but unfortunately this requirement wound up on the cutting room floor of the final bill. READ MORE: Ask the Headhunter: Women don’t cause the pay gap. Employers do Second, Massachusetts’ law is the first to explicitly address one of the (proclaimed ...

  • Column: Why different viewpoints lead us to the best solutions

    Column: Why different viewpoints lead us to the best solutions

    Jul 22, 2016 06:03 PM EST

    ... to think differently.” From their knowledge base to their social ties, individuals’ breadth can be just as important as breadth across a team. READ MORE: Ask the Headhunter: Employers, stop trying to hire a superhero Recruiters of all stripes should keep this in mind when trying to find the elusive ...

  • What you should know about noncompete agreements

    What you should know about noncompete agreements

    Jul 14, 2016 10:11 PM EST

    ... these particular areas? READ MORE: Ask the Headhunter: Why do employers hide the benefits? Russell Beck: There really isn’t a tremendous difference. California has the tech industry obviously, and people point to the lack of noncompete as the reason for the existence of the tech industry there. Others dispute ...

  • Will business imperatives drive gender parity?

    Will business imperatives drive gender parity?

    Jul 06, 2016 08:31 PM EST

    ... our human capacity. If you visualize what 100 percent can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future." READ MORE: Ask the Headhunter: Women don’t cause the pay gap. Employers do Women also add innovation capacity to the firms in which they work. A ...

  • Reddit CEO Ellen Pao bans salary negotiations

    Reddit CEO Ellen Pao bans salary negotiations

    Apr 07, 2015 07:45 PM EST

    ... you want to eliminate an advantage men have because of these prescriptive stereotypes, then this is a clear way to do it." PBS NewsHour’s “Ask the Headhunter” columnist and Silicon Valley headhunter Nick Corcodilos explains that one of the reasons he believes women get paid less, coming from his ...

  • Collect your Social Security as if you may live to 100

    Collect your Social Security as if you may live to 100

    Dec 01, 2014 07:55 PM EST

    ... but immediately suspend it, you'll have the option to take suspended benefits in a lump sum, but your retirement benefit thereafter will continue at the level it was at the time of suspension. MORE FROM MAKING SEN$E Ask the Headhunter: How to win the job by doing the job ...

  • So you want a job? You'd better be in the right neighborhood

    So you want a job? You'd better be in the right neighborhood

    Sep 26, 2014 05:28 PM EST

    ... also underpins proposals to relocate residents of high unemployment neighborhoods to job-abundant neighborhoods, for example, with a housing voucher program. MORE FROM MAKING SEN$E Ask the Headhunter: Go to the city where you want a job In “Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch ...

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    Christie Under Fire From Both Parties After Special Election Announcement

    Jun 05, 2013 01:50 PM EST

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie outlines plans for a special election to be held to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat of the late Democratic Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg. By calling for a special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Sen. Frank Lautenberg to be held three weeks before his own re-election...

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    Suicide and the Unemployed

    May 22, 2013 09:12 PM EST

    EmbedVideo(6376, 482, 304); The relationship between unemployment and suicide is well established. But is the persistence of long-term unemployment an added factor in the rising suicide rate these days, especially for older workers? Paul Solman responds to a viewer's comment relating to this PBS NewsHour story, originally broadcast on May 3. Paul Solman: Amidst a...