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David R. Rhode, managing partner of Vaco Raleigh, an executive placement and consulting firm, has announced that Bob Reuss, vice president of business development, has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the Council for Entrepreneurial Development board of directors. Reuss has been active in the CED for many years and previously served on its capital development committee for the 2010-2011 term. Reuss is involved in many organizations throughout the Raleigh community and serves on the board of advisors for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

Brian Osher, Entrepreneur, Life Coach, Business Trainer, and Productivity Expert, Launches Productive Balance—a Powerful Productivity Tool.

Quality Systems Solutions (QSS) will be hosting the Elgin Chamber Business After Hours on June 21st and the Open House complete with a Vendor/Partner Expo on June 22nd. Featured at the event will be a combination of small business solution demos, informational displays, drawings and giveaways and very special speakers speaking on subjects of sales, social media and business relationships, and strategic partners and solutions geared to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value-Added Resellers (VARs).

Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA), the alternative investment consultancy, is inviting people who want to make a difference to the world while making money to visit this year's Impact Investing Summit.

Author Susan Bradley keynotes the Bay Area Flirting Convention, as featured on Oprah, July 15, 2011, Crowne Plaza Hotel Foster City CA.

Financial firms are still cutting jobs and are expected to continue to do so, says a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Amazon.com is in negotiations with the Texas government for a deal which could see the state gain 5,000 jobs and $300 million in investments in the next three years.

California’s Bay Area also saw job losses of around 2,000 people. The losses there were primarily in the hi-tech sector.

The total stood at 427,000 people for the week ending June 4. Mark Vitner, an economist with Wells Frago says that jobless claims over 400,000 mean a recession and it can also mean signs of an economy recovering from a severe recession.

The number was the lowest in eight months and has pushed the unemployment rate back to 9.1 percent. The Labor Department blamed it on the high gas prices and the hit the Japanese economy took because of the tsunami.

The initial unemployment claims that were filed last week were unexpectedly high, reaching a total of 424,000 people for the week ending May 21.

Leading global consultancy PwC asked Sigmer Technologies to conduct an on-line survey of Clean Tech enterprises in the Isle of Man (IOM) on behalf of the Government of the IOM.

TimeLink, a leading Enterprise Workforce Management company today announced that it will exhibit at the 29th Annual APA Congress at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Virtual Benefits Fair, a creation of Kathy Kacher, President of CareerLife Alliance Services, Inc, is a response to employers' efforts to reach out to an increasingly disenfranchised workforce.

A just-released Benchmarking Report on Workplace Effectiveness and Flexibility from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation sheds new light on employees’ experience in the workplace. The report reveals that employees continue to struggle with the management of their daily lives.

TimeLink, a leading Enterprise Workforce Management company today announced it will be exhibiting at the 'Sapphire Now and ASUG Annual Conference' in Orlando, FL from May 15-18, 2011.

The Labor Department in a report released last week has said that there are at least one million Americans now who have exhausted their unemployment benefits.

Don Osvog, the founder of Managed Growth LLC has become an official member of the Board of Advisors with Workplace Stars.

Businesses in New Jersey can no longer advertise for job vacancies stating that the currently unemployed need not apply.

Ona Lage’, the Director of Marketing and Publicity for Workplace Rewards and Mark Allen, a Regional Manager with the Marlin Company have become official Workplace Ambassadors with Workplace Stars. Lage’ and Allen initially became involved with Workplace Stars through a direct acquaintance of founder Bob Ebers.

Cross-Post LLC announced today that Diversity-Job.com will join their recruitment classifieds network platform for newspapers and publications.

Good news for companies from across the Bay Area clamoring for more time to get their entries in; BAJobs.com has granted an extension for the contest deadline. Companies now have two more weeks to prove that they’re the best place to work in the San Francisco Bay Area

Human Resource Management Firm Offers Training For Professionals

George C. Georgiou, paranormal investigator and researcher of more than 20 years is now the creator of mindabilities.com.

A new specialist Wind jobs website has been launched that covers a wide variety of wind related jobs that are based in the United Kingdom and Worldwide.