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There has been nothing you could call "successful" about President Obama's so-called "green energy" initiatives, but the worst thing of all is the billions in taxpayer dollars he has utterly wasted on failed companies who were trying to push unproven, and ultimately failed, initiatives.

This week, Mother Nature occupied Wall Street. CNN, the Weather Channel and the National Weather Service reported that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was under three feet of water. A live video feed of the trading floor said otherwise. Maybe it was just wishful thinking. The stock market was closed anyway.

When a candidate is unsuccessful, an all too common practice is for HR to discard them without a second thought. And with good reason. Narrowing the candidate pool is a unenviable task and sheer time constraints preclude many in HR from going the extra step in personalising the notification.

We are now in the work-from-home work culture, where businesses allow their employees to work from their homes on their beds wearing their pajamas and just go online for a certain period of time. In this article, we will tackle the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of work culture.

A Net Impact study reveals that students want a job that will help make the world a better place for everyone.

What's one of the biggest mistakes that I see people make when they present a proposal to work more flexibly to their manager? They focus on "why" they want to work differently, when they should emphasize "how" they are going to get their job done.

London's finance sector is facing a 16-year low in the number of available jobs, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) on Wednesday, with the euro zone crisis expected to cause more than 25,000 layoffs in 2012.

Silence is golden, especially when the alternative can get you fired.

There might be days when you just don’t feel right. I have had the most tedious jobs of all.

In the book, Positivity, by Barbara Fredrickson, she discusses a fascinating research project about what makes businesses successful.

Understanding the actual motivations behind resignations from an organisation is a vital first step in addressing staff turnover issues, yet this process is regularly overlooked according to a recent study.

In the book, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, he compares both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and discussed that you need to include both hemispheres when creating anything new.

Sickies, low productivity, workflow interruptions … the indirect costs of poor employee health are many and varied, and it’s the employer that cops it.

Next month lunch rooms across Australia will come alive as workers delight in sharing the foods from their cultural background with their colleagues as part of a national campaign promoting diversity.

Five years on from the official introduction of workplace reconciliation action plans (RAPs), more than 280 organisations have signed on and several of the nation's high-profile CEOs say it's changed the way their companies do business.

With more staff cuts being announced every day around the country as organisations act to stem costs in the face of economic uncertainty, a leading workplace relations lawyer has warned employers to be careful when letting staff go.

Some indiscriminate virus must have been around on 27 January: figures from an independent survey showed 170,000 more people than average called in sick on the work day which followed the Australia Day public holiday. Poor things.

Human Capital: As MD of FedEx Express Australasia, what do you expect from your HR team? What skills and traits do you value highly in that team?

NMB has witnessed a spike in SMSF lending interest, though managing director Gerald Foley said brokers need to understand the complexity of these products.

Employer demand for international graduates in 2011 increased to levels not seen since before the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, according to a new report.

Research by Gallup has demonstrated that organisations with high levels of engagement routinely outperform their competitors; they are 27% more profitable, they have 38% above average productivity and have 50% higher customer loyalty.

More than three quarters of prospective employees are turned off a job/employer by a long recruitment process, according to a recent survey.

She is one of Hollywood’s youngest rising stars but the 14-year old Chloe Moretz has got her mind set on bigger things of which includes her education.

Taking a leap of faith to apply for an internship in the Big Apple proved fruitful for this young writer.

A French teacher has died of injuries from third degree burns after setting herself on fire in front of frightened students. The 44-year-old teacher, who had worked at Jean Moulin school for 10 years, was depressed over her relations with her students in her math classes.

The past decade has seen the increase in more and more undergraduate university students looking at continuing their education after graduation, or after a few years working in the professional marketplace.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), through its latest edition of Education at a Glance, showed how the countries are ranking in terms of cost of education. OECD noted a sharp rise in the cost of higher education in the United States, adding this situation has already led to a relative stagnation in the number of people going on to university.

Chinese students learn English through Li Yang's Crazy English course, one-of-a-kind program where students shout the English sentences on a roof top, instead of writing them.

Young entrepreneurs who dare to skip college and dive into an industry of their choice have found an ally in PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a high-flying Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Thiel disagrees with any criticism that the program encourages young people to trivialize college. He stressed that the fellows, who were chosen from over 400 applicants, showed brilliance and sheer determination.