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It’s well known now that many potential employers screen applicants not only by what they put on their resumes, but how they present themselves online via social media like Twitter, Facebook, personal blogs, and so on. Kelly Clay reminds people of this fact and tells the job hunters out there what bad social media habits are best broken before they become a liability in the search for employment. One: Don’t be a jerk to people online, you idiot!

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In the US, one in four people between the ages of 18 and 50 has at least one tattoo.

With unemployment at nine per cent, for many the desperate search for a job now includes having those tattoos removed.

At a cost of $500 to $1,000 dollars per removal, the process has meant big profits for a number of shops that specialise in the procedure.

Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports from Washington.

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Rasmussen College Director of Career Development discusses dip in the unemployment rate and ways you can make yourself more job ready.

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I uncovered another casualty of the bad economy — older Wisconsin workers remain unemployed for nearly six months longer than their younger competitors in what some call “age discrimination.”

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Rutgers alumni who are looking for employment gain valuable job hunting tips and support at the Job Success Club, run by Len Garrison, career coach with Rutgers Career Services. The group meets regularly, usually in the Cap & Skull Room in Rutgers Student Center in New Brunswick. http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/

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