The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is under great pressure to do a better job of investigating and regulating drugs, food, medical devices, cosmetics and other products.
FDA officials blame lax regulation, delays and other misses on a lack of staff and resources. They’ve set a goal to hire 1,300 biologists, medical officers, chemists, safety [...]
Folks are mobbing job fairs. It’s taking more than 4 months (on average) to find a job. And, every day, all day millions of frustrated job-hunters click the “Submit” button and blast their resumes into resume black holes–online job ads and websites set up for the sole purpose of slurping up and storing [...]
There’s been a lot of political and other debate about outsourcing, most of it about jobs being outsourced to other countries. But, there’s a growing trend of businesses and governments outsourcing work to a locale much nearer to home–your brain.
Dozens of companies have launched innovation funds, contests and other initiatives designed to drive you [...]
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Need money for your mortgage? Need seed capital for your new business? Uncle Sam wants to give it to ya!
But…there’s a catch. You’ll have to join the Army.
Under the Army’s new Army Advantage Fund program, which the Army began testing in February, those who enlist in the regular Army for up to five years can [...]
Yesterday, Manpower released its annual “Hardest Jobs to Fill” list. The list features jobs that employers throughout the U.S. report having the most difficulty filling due to a “mismatch” between the skills employers require and the skills job applicants and candidates possess.
The list is eye-opening generally, but is particularly so this year when every [...]
The Pres has declared this week (April 21-25) National Small Business Week, a week dedicated to recognizing and celebrating small businesses and their contribution to our economy. Several small business owners and plenty of politicos will be out and about in Washington, DC to participate in the week’s events, panels and award ceremonies. [...]
I’m constantly researching something! I visit dozens of webpages in a day, hundreds a week–each for a different bit of information. I’ve tried a million ways of saving and organizing notes for later reference. I’ve tried bookmarking, saving as PDF, printing pages, keeping a bazillion tabs open at any one time. [...]
Every now and again the Brits have a few useful ideas that we’d like to “borrow”. This one’s a veritable box of goodies. The Brits call it Flexible Support for Business. I call it a miracle, one that I hope is reproducible…and relocatable.
Amazon recently set out to open a distribution center in Jersey Marine, Neath [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the candidate pool, someone invents something else to ferret out way more information than is necessary to decide if you’re the right fit for that “wow-I-think-I-could-pan-handle-and-make-more-than-this” job.
Fetch Technologies recently announced a new product called Fetch Footprint. The product is designed to access candidate data [...]
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