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Blog Post: Are You A Jobaholic?: Find yourself drunk with envy at your highly successful working friends? Having trouble saying “No” to every network invite you receive? Tired of the rejection, invitation, rejection? Too busy…; Added by Lisa Kaye at 11:16pm on September 20, 2009

Blog Post: Five Jobs in Mental Health You Haven't Considered Yet: Obtaining a mental health degree like one in psychology or sociology opens up many career opportunities, and maybe more than you first think. In all mental health jobs, you care for people with…; Added by Brooke Chaplan at 12:37pm on October 22, 2015

Blog Post: Big is not necessarily better: I admit it I have an addiction. Back in 2001 I was introduced to the writings of Kathleen O'Neal Gear and her husband W. Michael Gear who have written a series of 23 historical fiction books…; Added by Daniel T. Bloom at 8:47pm on December 29, 2012

Blog Post: Around the world in 8 hours - recruiting in Software Sales

We asked our Account Manager, Kimberley Wellen, what it's like…

Added by FMC Global Talent at 9:32am on March 24, 2016

Blog Post: To Tweet or Not To Tweet?

My name is apersico and I am a tweetaholic. Ok well I am not quite there….but if I lose focus I could be.…

Added by Andrea Persico at 4:47pm on March 10, 2010

Blog Post: Alrighty then.. I'll get active! Sorry oh RBC Community: It's not like I didn't want to be contributing. I'm glad you noticed though! It's good to be missed, although a little confronting, logging into my "My Page", weary from a long couple of days…; Added by Dan Nuroo at 5:03am on November 14, 2008

Topic: I Said Goodbye to a Friend: of a dear friend's mother whose cookies I had eaten, whose pool in which I had swam, whose house felt like a second home, who always had a hug for me and squeezes for my kids. She will be missed. I haven't seen her in ten years but time and space collapse a bit when friends gather to share memories and mourn a bit with one another. Her passing represents a continued passing of the old guard. I remember when she was my age, I remember when my own mother was my age. It is sometimes difficult to grasp this. For if I truly recognize this, I must also understand that I will someday be my mother's current age - if I am lucky. "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." ~ Madeleine L'engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time Wisdom is more than knowledge and greater than age. It comes through instinct, experience, and a significant amount of failure. So..., it would stand to reason that wisdom does come with age. There may be those who are born with an innate ability to assess a situation or calculate the right response and others who glide through issues with the greatest of ease but true wisdom? This can only be gained through life education. Trial and error. Hit and miss. Joy and Sorrow. From which side of the "and" do we learn? Do we learn from the trial or do we learn from the error? Worth considering and worth investigating. Perhaps we learn from the "and," learning to gracefully move from one side to the other. Realizing that without sorrow, how could we possibly comprehend joy? Honesty, truth, doing good, belief, hope, endurance, integrity, listening, and open to learning more: these are characteristics of wisdom. Seek them. true wisdom is knowing you know nothing by rayannethorn…; Added by Rayanne at 3:47am on May 8, 2009

Comment on: Blog Post 'Illinois To Deny Workers Comp to Those Who Fail Drug and Alcohol Testing': always the "defender of the recreational user”--the person who supposedly can party on the weekend and keep their state of inebriation under control during the work week. That's so much BS as you know from your investigative work on the subject. Addiction is a monster that has no time constraints and is equal opportunity dominator of abusers. . More important than the harm abusers do to themselves is the harm they pose and do to others. Driving drunk or doing shoddy work in jobs that can harm fellow workers and the general public—now includes worker comp fraud. The fact that workers compensation has been scammed by drug & alcohol abusers is appalling. Employers have an obligation to their employees, customers, products, services--and bottom-line profit to not put any of those at risk by allowing disruption(s) that can and will occur if preventative measures like drug & alcohol testing is not applied at the outset—at the entry gate of employment processing and randomly for retention screening. In Drug & Alcohol Abuse Testing it’s really not a matter of Pros or Cons or presumed guilt—it’s a matter of positioning for quality outcomes rather than hoping for them. I happened to work in the aerospace and defense industries, in the early 1980s. These were among the first industries to institute mandatory drug testing. It was astounding how many drug testing failures were recorded initially across all disciplines in those early days. It was scary to know that those who failed our drug tests went on to work for our competitors who had yet to establish drug testing programs. Quality and safety have been enhanced on many levels thanks to Drug Testing policies first established in the aerospace and defense industries nationwide. With this new legislation against workers comp fraud in the State of Illinois—new cost savings will be only one result. I’m unaware of how the private sector deals with similar situations, but if corporate America is not already applying this “denial” method—they should be applying it. Once in place I envision new statistics that will pinpoint how many denials are recorded; and which jobs/industries/geographies seem to harbor the majority of scam artists. In turn, those stats may give other States/employers ammunition to justify installing similar preventative measures against drug & alcohol abusers who also try to leverage workers comp claims. …; Added by Valentino Martinez at 11:29am on June 8, 2011

Blog Post: Successful Applicants Have High Levels of Testosterone and a Good Morning Workout Plan: An interesting article came out in April about the direct relationship to high levels of testosterone and making money in the day trader profession. The day traders daily world revolves around…; Added by Kyle Smith at 11:53am on July 14, 2008

Blog Post: I don't buy all this "allowing Facebook access at work increases productivity" nonsense: Remember before all this online technology shenanigans when we just turned up to work - to work? Did we insist that we had access to Pac Man, Pong or Space Invaders, or any of the other trivial…; Added by Alasdair Murray at 7:34am on April 12, 2012