Dear Santa,

What's up with Wii? Why can't they just make more? Some kids at school were asking that question, and I thought you might know the answer.

Mom and Dad need a new car—right now the old one is just...

No job search is perfect. If you're sending out résumés and making calls, you're sure to make mistakes. It's useful to keep in mind, however, that your peers are also making mistakes. The beauty of a job search is...

Many young workers and college students are positively mystified by this job market. What happened to the wide range of meaningful opportunities promised to those who labored for degrees, undergraduate and beyond? Work was supp...

More than 1 million people have been laid off this year. If you are one of them and you're looking for a new job, good luck—and remember these five important things:

1. Before you hit the job-hunti...

I had a misdemeanor DUI 10 years ago and have not had any tickets since then. I was recently laid off from my Hotel Security Director job after 10 years with the same company. I have an interview with another company for th...

I'm continually surprised by the number of people who either don't submit a cover letter with their résumé at all or who submit a generic form letter. I generally assume these applicants are just résum&eacu...

Things haven't been looking so good for the affluent, especially the most powerful and wealthy investors who've incurred massive losses caused ...

Shortly after today’s ugly employment report, Goldman Sachs has changed its economic forecast. It now expects a deeper recession and higher unemployment.

From a report by economists at Goldman Sachs:

Anxiety will be an uninvited guest at the holiday table this year. Despite a rally here or there, the stock markets are deeply depressed. Instead of getting fat on holiday sales, retail outlets are begging for shoppers and even...

I had an internship for a large accounting firm. I applied for a regular position and did not even receive an interview for the one position availabl e. The ...

While President-elect Barack Obama seems to be making Washington work cool again, the economic downturn and upward-spiraling unemployment rate are lending their own weight to the appeal of gaining secure employment in the feder...

Here's a look at today's job-related data:

Initial jobless claims (the number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance the first time) last week were 479,000—the same as the week before, the Labor Department ...

Planning a career in TV news? Then pay attention. Three different metro newspapers are reporting layoffs at local CBS stations.

The Sacramento Bee  

Seventy-year-old Lilly Ledbetter lost an important gender pay-equity case before the U.S. Supreme Court almost a year ago. But the former supervisor for an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant is still ...

Are you planning to get pregnant in the near future? How would I have responded if my prospective boss had asked me this some 13 years ago during a job interview for a medical journal? I did, in fact, become pregnant w...