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The cornerstone for professionals, new or seasoned, should begin with a simple core value.

With the debate over immigration reform at the forefront of the 2016 presidential race, 'My (Underground) American Dream' author Julissa Arce weighed in on her experiences growing up as an undocumented immigrant, achieving success on Wall Street and the heated rhetoric on the presidential campaign trail.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it paid more than $201 million in second-quarter bonuses to hourly store staff as 99 percent of its stores met targets for cleanliness, faster checkout and better service.

Macy's plans to hire about 83,000 people for the busy holiday shopping season, about equal to the number of hires last year.

Workplace diversity is no longer just a feel-good concept or compliance issue.

When recruiters and hiring managers review a candidate's work history, they can typically get a pretty good idea of what the applicant is capable of just by analyzing their previous jobs.However, with nearly 16 percent of the U.S. workforce currently employed in the series of remote, freelance, temporary, and contract positions that collectively comprise "the gig economy," many resumes are starting to get a little fuzzier.Sometimes gig work is incredibly specific.

Nothing is more flattering than a promotion.

When executed well, employee referral programs leverage the social media and other contacts of an organization's workers to connect with high-caliber passive prospects.

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Katz maintains a YouTube channel  full of pitch-perfect cover songs on which he sings and plays every single note.

Dirk Spencer – a recruiter and author whose insights have appeared in numerous articles on our site and others – is serious about resume keywords.

Kohl's plans to hire more than 69,000 additional workers for the upcoming holiday season to meet demand at more than 1,100 stores nationwide.

Background checks are a common component of the standard employment process.

It sounds like something out of The Office: A clueless boss makes wildly inappropriate comments to his employees without even a shred of self-awareness.But while the newest line of greeting cards from U.K.-based company Christmas Connections may have been inspired by David Brent, the notoriously bad boss in the original U.K. version of The Office, they're all straight out of real life.When Christmas Connections heard that a new movie featuring the Brent character was on its way, the company sprang into action, soliciting U.K. office workers for the "worst comments they have received from a manager at work.""We were interested to see if people had received similar comments themselves, and we were quite shocked by the responses," says Daniel McKay, head of digital at Christmas Connections.Depending on how jaded you are, though, what happened may be thoroughly expected to you."We were inundated with comments and stories of horrible bosses," McKay says.

Business media outlets are ripe with stories about millennials and how they can't sit still for more than two years at a job.

Have you ever noticed that some people command respect when speaking while others don't?

As technology advances, more workers than ever before are working remotely.

Did you know that videos lead to a 200-300 percent increase in click-through rates for emails?

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers!

I have spent a lot of time sifting through resumes and online profiles in search of the perfect people to join my company.