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Top 10 ways to guarantee you hire the wrong person
Mel Kleiman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAbout five years into my career, I started to notice something. No matter the industry or even the country, employers worldwide tend to make the same, costly hiring mistakes time after time after time. Now, 30-plus years later, I regret to report that nothing's changed much.
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Your guide to the FDA’s new Nutrition Facts label
Natalie Thomas Food & BeverageIt's no secret that America's pants are ripping at the seams. A study released earlier this month by the CDC found the rate of obesity in the United States is still continuing its upward trajectory. To put the numbers into perspective, health officials expressed concern in 1997 when researchers found 19.4 percent of American adults were obese. In 2015, that figure was 30.4 percent — and still rising.
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Pinterest makes changes to help marketers, advertisers
Suzanne Mason MarketingFor those looking for recipe, DIY, wedding or other visual ideas, the first social media platform that comes to mind is Pinterest. With its 176 million registered visitors and more than 100 million monthly users, Pinterest is the third biggest social media platform, behind giants Facebook and Twitter.
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Telehealth gets ethical
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationTelehealth efforts continue to gain traction as more health systems explore ways to implement the strategies to meet patients and move more people to out-patient care. With the growth have come the vendors, the technology and the regulation. Now comes a set of ethics guidelines from the American Medical Association.
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Travel trends: Co-living and targeted marketing for men
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementThe travel and hospitality industry has managed to surprise us yet again. Two of the latest trends are actually moving away from luxury stays to more a practical approach, right down to the planning. People want to cut down on expenses, and are looking at co-living as the right mix between hotels and apartment rentals. And when it comes to planning trips, the gender lines are blurring between business and leisure travel.
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Physicians still battling NPs over turf with no solutions in sight
Joan Spitrey Healthcare AdministrationIn the wake of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposal to allow full practice authority for all VA advanced practice nurses (APRN), the turf battle over who is best suited to provide healthcare has been fired up again. Although this is not a new battle, the tides have been changing in favor of more authority for ARPNs, which causes the question of quality care to be raised once again.
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Making medical strides in nanotechnology
Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied HealthcareNanotechnology is clearly playing a transformative role in the future of healthcare and medicine. Nanoparticles are being used inside the body in a variety of ways, including fighting cancer, treating atherosclerosis and killing bacteria. Here is a look at some of the latest developments on the microscopic level.
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Brain-based strategies for English learners
Erick Herrmann EducationIn the past two decades, knowledge of how the brain functions has increased tremendously. New, less invasive technologies such as PET scans have helped scientists determine various ways people learn and how to facilitate learning through using brain-based teaching techniques.
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The state of the world collector car market: What’s next
Graeme Cocks Transportation Technology & AutomotiveIn the first part of this article, we looked back on this history of the automobile and car collecting. Here in the second part, we'll look at the international values for cars by year since 1993 as well as the future of car collecting.
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Telework is a company’s best tool
Kelly Sharp Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementOffice spaces of today share the common goal of being as comfortable as employee homes. Many companies have taken on this challenge and designed areas to make employees feel excited about coming to work.