Recently added articles from Career World, a Weekly Reader publication:
Job fail.(CAREER WORLD 411)(a would be employee use Twitter to say how he hates the job)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Being fired for blogging? That's so 2007. Getting canned for a Facebook post? That screams 2008. In 2009, losing a ob via Twitter seems to be the new tech FAIL when t comes to putting a job on the line. Last spring, a tweet came from a would-be employee at Cisco, a network ...
The candy man can.(CAREER WORLD 411)(Candy industry)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The recession has hit many businesses and entrepreneurs hard. But there's at least one field that seems to be turning a pretty sweet profit, even in tough economic times. Candy stores, according to The New York Times, are weathering the storm ...
What's that job?(CAREER WORLD 411)(list of different jobs and what they do)(Brief article)(List)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Cake Shipper: operates a machine clsed in cottonseed oil production Camp lender: supervises and coordinates the work of sheep farm employees [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Comb Capper: releases honey from commercial honeycombs Dolly Pusher: moves camera equipment around the ...
A master of social networking.(CAREER WORLD 411)
Oct 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fans of online social networking, take note: Birmingham City University in England now offers a master's degree in social media. "During the course we will consider what people can do on Facebook and Twitter, and how they can be used for ...
Blossoming stems.(CAREER WORLD 411)(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Teens are loving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The 2009 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index showed that 85 percent of students are interested in those subjects. More than half those teens said they were motivated by a desire to protect the environment and help society ....