Job Hunting

Sage HRMS Business Partner, Dresser & Associates, Adds Two New Positions to its Maine Office.

Scarborough, Maine – February 8, 2012 – Dresser & Associates, the leading Sage HRMS (formerly Sage Abra HRMS) business partner in the nation, announced today that it continues to grow its team and its operation, adding two new positions focused on serving existing clients and acquiring and retaining new clients.

The cornerstone of our business success is our continuing goal to exceed our customers expectations, said Mark Dresser, president of Dresser & Associates. We

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Entering the World of Job Search

Entering the world of employment, as you will have noticed, is quite different from education. Job hunting is extremely competitive and online recruitment sites can be quite daunting to begin with. Many people send a generic resume to as many positions advertised as they can and yes, it may well get them an interview, but the lack of strength and focus in the resume makes them an unlikely candidate.

Some simple job hunting tips can help to provide structure to your search using online recruitment, making you more attractive as a candidate to an employer.

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While a B.A. in English isn’t going to earn you a six-figure salary out of undergrad, it does open up a surprisingly large number of career paths.

In the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, the lead character sings: “What do you do with a B.A. in English / What is my life going to be? / Four years of college and plenty of knowledge, / Have earned me this useless degree.”

If you’ve been paying much attention to financial news lately and you are—or are thinking about becoming—an English major, you may very well fear landing in this precise situation in four years! Howev

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With the advent of distracting sites like Twitter and Facebook, we have all lost some portion of our ability to focus online. This can be particularly challenging for college students who spend hours in the glow of their laptops, searching for any excuse to be distracted from studying. However, rather than characterize the web as an environment of endless distraction, we should recognize that there are numerous tools available online that can be extremely useful for students productivity and efficiency. These three tools are necessities for any college computer.

Dropbox

Dropbox is one of those apps that everyone is writing about.

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Sopa Would DESTROY Jobs and the Economy … So Why are Unions Supporting It?

No, Sopa Would Not Save Jobs or Help the Economy … It Would DESTROY Jobs and the Most Vibrant Sector of Our Economy

The promoters of the Stop Online Privacy Act are pretending that it would save jobs and help the economy.

But it would actually destroy jobs and hurt the economy.

No one is going to invest in the next Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Reddit, or YouTube if they know that websites can be shut down after a single unsubstantiated copyright complaint.

The only sector of our economy that’s in good shape is web technology . Sopa

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