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When I introduced the CogBlog the other day, at the end of my presentation I snuck in a couple slides about trends I saw with blogs that really were catching my attention.

The Blog is the New Resume | Adam Darowski's Traces of Inspiration

http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2007/03/06/the-blog-is-the-new-resume/

http://www.explodedlibrary.info/2005/06/more_of_my_thou.html

One other thing about this article. Since drafting it, I've become aware of some more recent research by Mary Jo Lynch at the ALA Office for Research & Statistics which are based on 2000 US census figures, instead of the 1990 census.

Unemployed Workers

March 13, 2012 New legislation authorizing federal unemployment insurance programs for the remainder of 2012 was recently passed by Congress and signed by President Obama. The new law (Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012) stipulates a number of changes to the federal UI programs, including phased-in changes in the number of weeks of available benefits and some new unemployment rate triggers for certain tiers of the extensions.

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Seven Career Killers - Kiplinger.com

http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/starting/archive/2006/st0223.htm

Lying on your résumé, stealing office supplies or failing to show up for work will surely dampen your career prospects. But young workers need to beware of less-obvious mistakes that can sabotage their careers.

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) is a partner in the AIP Career Network, a collection of online job sites for scientists, engineers, and computing professionals.