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Susan Tait is fascinated by the story machine that is the human mind. She refused to starve as an artist and became a technical writer, instructional designer, and book binder. She uses professional creative tools to find opportunity in difficult places.

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Job seeking when HR and project management blends in one role

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Traditional job hiring meant an application, a screening through HR, a screening through a permanently employed...
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Six tips to help you get screened in for Providence and Regence

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 · 2 comments

Providence and Regence presented recently to job seekers at the Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce, which supports an...
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Bipolar interviewing--how to use the hottest trend in job hunting today

October was so successful as Mental Health Month that Congress may declare a Mental Health Quarter for Q4 2009, in...
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Jobs, booze, unemployment, and coffee: truth is stranger than fiction, and sometimes funnier

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Some recruiters think a gap in the resume means it's reasonable to speculate that the candidate is...
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Local jobs activity uptick; how some small businesses benefit from recession

Anecdotal evidence can be as misleading as statistical evidence. With a choice between good news and bad news, why...
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Mental Health Month--more about the coffee disorders that unemployment cures

As previously reported by a crack team of medical professionals researching the relationship of an IT career to...
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Fate of unemployment benefits extension vote may cost incumbents regardless of party

The vote to deny unemployment benefit extensions features the usual group of suspects on both sides of the aisle--but how they're identified got...
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Imagining new careers and jobs based on new technologies: example of nanotechnology's possibilities

The previous article discussed how imagining the effect of new, disruptive technologies could add careers and jobs...
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Imagining tomorrow's jobs from today's news in renewable energy

Inventing the future job means dreaming from the edges of what's possible today. This column introduces an...
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Two recessions: the economy's, and ours

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"If all the economists were laid end-to-end, they would point in all directions." The daily news feeds all week have been proving the adage....
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