In a competitive job market where qualified employees are hard to come by, it makes sense for businesses to create their own prospective hires. This can be achieved by developing an internship program that becomes a pipeline of qualified employees eager to sign on.
It's important to remember that interns...
About one-third of workers say that they have received a raise in the past year.
And if you live in certain areas of the country, your chances of being one of them are greater.
That is according to Prudential’s latest American Workers Survey, which was conducted online in November.
The report found...
When you hear the market has suffered a big drop, your first instinct is probably to check your investment account balances.
But that is actually the opposite of what you should do, according to Dan Ariely, chief behavioral economist at Qapital, a provider of a personal finance mobile app, and...
President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress passed a major overhaul of the United States tax code in late 2017 that will impact what you owe for 2018. Whether it will benefit you or require you to pay more to the IRS will depend upon your tax bracket and...
Banks are to be banned from charging excessive fees for unauthorised overdrafts, paid by 14 million people every year, after the City watchdog found that the current system of fees needed “fundamental change”.
The current range of fees and daily and monthly charges will be swept away and replaced by...
Some companies have specific bonus plans -- maybe for the whole company or maybe just for people in sales or management positions. Most smaller business, however, lack any sort of formal arrangement. That puts the matter in the hand of the owner, and sometimes the manager, as to whether...
If you run a small business, you're probably aware that the less you spend to keep that operation running, the higher your profits stand to be. As the new year kicks in, it's a good time to rethink your business budget and come up with ideas to cut costs....
Up there with losing weight and getting into better shape, saving money is a popular New Year's resolution to aim for. And the key to saving money is none other than having a solid budget in place. If you've tried budgeting in the past but have failed at it,...
In 2010, 24-year-old Grant Sabatier had just moved back in with his parents after bouncing from job to job and then getting laid off in the midst of the recession. With less than $5 to his name and only three months to find his own place, Sabatier knew he...
To all those who make the big decision to retire abroad, Cynthia and Edd Staton say, "Congratulations!"
In 2009, a look at their battered retirement accounts made the Statons think hard about what their retirement might look like. They could stay in the U.S. where they'd lived all their lives, or they could find...
