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Free Job Search Apps for Specific Careers

HR Digest

Nowadays, there are apps for everything – be it looking for love, ordering something to eat, or booking a hotel. Founded – 2004. The app’s user-friendly interface gives the power of the CareerBuilder.com website to job seekers wherever they might be. Indeed Job Search. Founder(s) – Paul Forster and Rony Kahan.

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The Personal Strength of Self-Esteem - The Year of the Damages

Building Personal Strength

Until the hurricanes of 2004 came. We were without power for almost two weeks. Four days after we got power back, we were hit again by Jeanne, a fast-moving Category 3 that pushed the water up to our front door again. Once again, we were without power for almost two weeks. It was, as I regularly proclaimed, paradise.

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Great Companies Stay True to the Spirit of Their Founders

Harvard Business Review

Almost all of the founders we interviewed provided useful lessons, but three CEOs in particular exemplified each of the qualities that make the founder’s mentality so powerful. Oberoi, the founder of the Oberoi Group, a chain of luxury hotels in India. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission. ’ The family loved this.

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Women: The New Voices of Unions

Women on Business

When in 2004 a law was passed in California that required hospitals to have 1 nurse for every 5 patients, the governor delayed the implementation of the law. Afterwards he had a dispute with the organization for hotel, restaurant and garment workers. Henry became assistant to the then leader of the S.E.I.U., During all of this, Ms.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

In comparison, TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. The company is now pervasive - with 65 million unique visitors each month scouring the site for reviews of hotels, restaurants and sites around the globe. Magical, really.

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