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• Ad Trade Reporters Frequently Take Jobs With the Sources They Cover

  BNET - 2009-08-26

  How close are reporters in the advertising trade press to the agencies they cover? Very close. That closeness was writ large -- again -- by the news this week that USA Today ad writer Theresa Howard has joined Crispin Porter + Bogusky as a copywriter. Before USA Today, Howard was...

  Tags: Job, Advertisement, USA Today, Jim Edwards

• Take Your Job Search Online

  BNET - 2008-12-25

  So, if you're looking for a job, you're not alone. Unfortunately, the competition makes landing a job more difficult. You must be savvy. You'll find plenty of help online. If you get an interview, act like you want the job. Have a few questions. Answer those asked with confidence and...

  Tags: Job, USA Today, Job Search, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Veterans move on to new NFL jobs

  - 2008-09-02

  For many NFL players, the holiday weekend wasn't a cause for celebration but a reason to worry. Teams had to cut rosters to the maximum of 53 players by Saturday, and a lot of veterans suddenly found themselves out of work. Fortunately for some, it was...

  Tags: CAREER, job, NFL, team, USA Today

• Outlook on hiring isn't exactly rosy

  - 2008-04-02

  In another sign of a stagnant economy, relatively few companies have plans to hire more workers over the next three months, according to a survey of employers released today. Just 29% of managers plan to increase hiring in the second quarter of 2008, according to an...

  Tags: CareerBuilder, hiring, job, MARKETING, payroll, survey, USA Today

• Cutting corporate taxes is bad news for U.S. businesses

  - 2007-10-02

  If USA TODAY reader Dorothy Coleman truly believes that cutting corporate tax rates and adding a permanent research and development tax credit "would lead to greater economic growth, higher wages for workers, an increase in productivity levels, more business investment and lower inflation," then she truly has been guzzling the...

  Tags: FINANCE, job, NFL, Taxes, UAW, USA Today, worker

• Fuel bill threatens jobs and car quality

  - 2007-08-02

  I was highly disappointed with writer Alan M. Webber's commentary "What are the Dinosaurs of Detroit thinking?" (The Forum, Wednesday). Webber correctly pointed out that the CEOs of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are vehemently against H.R. 1506, which would make fuel economy requirements much tougher....

  Tags: car, Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., job, manufacturer, Manufacturing, Toyota Motor Corp., USA Today

• If Vick is guilty of dogfighting charges, he should lose his job

  - 2007-07-24

  As someone who values all living things, including animals, I was angry and disgusted by USA TODAY's report on Michael Vick and the dogfighting allegations against him ("Vick case sheds light on dark world of dogfighting," Cover Story, News, Thursday). The fact that people engage in...

  Tags: athlete, job, NFL, USA Today, Vick

• Senate takes up proposal for immigration overhaul

  - 2007-05-21

  WASHINGTON -- Forget your poor, tired, huddled masses. Now some policymakers are saying the nation might be better off fixing its sights on engineers and Ph.D.s. The immigration legislation the Senate begins debating today takes a step in that direction, a step that other countries have...

  Tags: immigrant, immigration, job, U.S., U.S. Senate, USA Today

• CHOICE BITS; Excerpts from recent Editor's Choice blog entries on CrainsCleveland.com.(Briefs)

  - 2007-03-12

  Workplace dads want to be less-frequent fliers * The Mayfield Group of Solon, which designs planned promotional programs for the drycleaning business, was one of the companies mentioned in a March 7 USA Today story about working dads expressing gr Workplace dads want...

  Tags: blog, blog entry, business owner, company, job, USA Today

• Interactive campaigns build buzz with fun

  - 2007-01-18

  Some marketers are getting personal in their viral marketing as they continue to invent ways to interact with consumers online and try to get them to pass along the product message. Today, job site CareerBuilder.com will announce the launch of Age-O-Matic.com, a site where consumers can upload a photo of...

  Tags: advertisement, CareerBuilder, E-mail, job, M&M, OfficeMax Inc., USA Today