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While more companies are adopting open, collaborative spaces with few individual offices, it's driven as much by cost-cutting as the desire to create a non-hierarchical corporate culture. Most workers just don't like the noise and loss of privacy when barriers between desks are eliminated.

When you've given two weeks notice at your current job, you may think you can lay back and just coast before joining your next employer. Don't. Those last two weeks can be critical to ensuring you leave on good terms with your reputation intact.

The sudden drop in jobs added in March belies a string of recent public and private metrics that had job seekers and recruiters betting on better prospects for the unemployed.

New social-networking applications aimed at the workplace borrow from Facebook in that they enable workers to set up profiles, form groups and "follow" each other's status updates. The goal is to boost productivity.

According to the first-ever ranking of the Top 25 CEOs from employer-reviews website Glassdoor.com, Meg Whitman's approval rating as chief executive is 80%, earning her the 24th spot on the list.Topping the list is Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook.

An expertise in sales can provide a feeling of safety in a tight labor market, teach fundamental skills like fundraising, or in some cases allow job changers to remain connected to their original fields of interest.

Pinterest, the popular social photo sharing website fashioned around the age old concept of the pinboard, has become a valuable tool for marketers, who are using it to connect with consumers, drive traffic and increase brand awareness

Being interviewed for a new job is always challenging, but interviews for sales jobs are in a class of their own. Not only must you pass the normal hurdles that all job seekers face, but you must demonstrate your sales skills by selling yourself as the best candidate.