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Late payments on credit cards drop in 3rd quarter
NEW YORK -- For the first time in a decade, more people paid their credit card bills on time in the third quarter this year than in the second quarter....
Program to help truckers attracts drug smugglers
LAREDO, Texas -- A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customer who places a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers....
Résumés
On
a résumé, learn to sell yourself
An applicant used to be competing with about 250
résumés, now it's 1,000, says the president of a Web service
that helps job seekers.
Reinvent
yourself: Find new uses for old job skills
The key, says George Lowe, who "graduated" from Ford
in May 2000 when he took an early retirement deal, was finding new uses
for the skills he had learned as a Ford manager. "I was thinking about
what I wanted to do next well before the time came to depart Ford."
The
other you: What's on your 'invisible' résumé?
Having an up-to-date résumé is a must.
But there's another kind of résumé you might find extremely
useful: the "invisible" résumé.
To
get ahead, people will put just about anything on their résumé
David Edmondson, chief executive officer at RadioShack
for less than a year, resigned in shame recently after a newspaper revealed
he had lied on his résumé about having two college degrees
when in fact he had none.
