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Pre-Employment Self Assessments

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Under pressure to cut costs and boost productivity, employers are trying to predict specific outcomes, such as whether a prospective hire will quit too soon, file disability claims or steal. billion in 2011, up 15% from 2010, according to research firm Gartner. Personality tests have a long history in hiring.

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Impact of the Millennial Generation

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36% of high school students claim that they would delay or forego college due to costs (Source: TD Ameritrade Study ‘2010 Teens % Money Survey"). Young people in droves are using the Internet for shopping: a whopping 84% of respondents in our survey claim to shop online regularly (Source: Buzz Marketing Group survey).

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Integrated Marketing and Social Networks

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billion in 2010, according to research firm eMarketer. Search marketing accounts for 59% of the overall interactive budget due to keyword costs and program volumes. Coordinating email and search via social networks may improve overall cost efficiencies. So far, Facebook's key battleground has been in online marketing.

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

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Mr. Lynch had been named chief executive in March 2010, having previously run the company''s website. Since people represent 50-80% of organizational costs and are a flexible resource through learning and innovating, engaging them for enhanced productivity is why effective leadership matters.

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It's the Economy, Stupid!

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Bigger homes were not much bigger; they cost twice as much—not 10 times as much. . Charles Murray: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Now, the cultural habits and preferences of America’s elite would be unrecognizable to mainstream U.S.A.

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Is Higher Education Too Expensive for the Middle Class?

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Since the late nineteen-seventies, annual costs at four-year colleges have risen three times as fast as inflation, and, with savings rates dropping and state aid to colleges being cut, students have been forced to take on ever more debt in order to pay for school. Can only the Wealthy Can Afford College Today?

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Bank of America: Yesterday and Today

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Countrywide has already cost Bank of America more than $5 billion in write-offs. Source: The New York Times, December 12, 2010. . “And customers find themselves facing a bureaucracy where it’s hard to get answers, hard to understand what they’re telling you and certainly hard to get solutions.”. 80% Off - End of Year Sale.

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