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Maintaining old contacts and establishing new ones are skills that take time and patience, and schmoozing is key to both. But a survey of 613 people suggests that many employees...

How many references should a job seeker provide a prospective employer? Try three. According to a survey of 150 executives from 1,000 of the largest U.S. companies by the staffing...

The former longtime host of television's longest-running how-to program, Robert Thomson changed the face of garden television. Mr. Thomson, 74, the retired host of Boston-based WGBH's "The Victory Garden," died...

American employers are not too happy about casual dress at work. Those are the findings of a recent national survey that showed that the nation's bosses wouldn't mind banning jeans,...

The number of women and African-Americans with jobs in information technology, a sector known for higher-than-average pay, declined between 1996 and 2002, according to a study by the Information Technology...

Managers overestimate, by about 20 percentage points, the number of employees who understand their efforts to address goals, policy changes and workplace concerns, according to a survey. A recent telephone...

The economy is improving, but layoffs haven't ended. Workers who understand that know the importance of being prepared, according to a survey of 613 adult workers who were asked how...

It's tall, dark, and most handsome, with a creamy head. One smooth swill is enough to make you believe it's a gift from God, as nearly anyone in this nation...

Here is something baseball officials should know: There is no such thing as baseball alchemy. They cannot take the baseball world as it exists in 2003 and turn it into...

Anne Weinstein, a Needham, Mass. mother with a new, third child, is looking to trade her Volvo station wagon for a minivan. It is too hard, she said, to maneuver...