Business

Employment survival guide: Adapt, stand apart and play by the new rules

Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:52 Julie Desmond

Survival of the fittest has not always referred to employment survival. Today, getting a job is no small feat. If you’ve succeeded in getting hired, strategize effectively to keep the position you have. You will need to call in all your personal resources: your talents, your skills, your connections. And with competition as fierce as it is now, you can add three new tactics to your game plan: adapt, stand out, and choose your own rules.

Tool for today's economy: An independent consumer financial protection agency

Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:57 Charlene Crowell, NNPA Financial Writer

(NNPA) - For most Americans, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the private sector’s gold-standard of objectivity and fairness. Founded in 1912, this nonprofit organization today has 123 offices in the United States and Canada that monitor more than four million local and national businesses and charities.

Northeast Bank new hires, promotions

Thursday, 04 March 2010 16:04

Recently Hired Officers
Mark A. Ethen has recently accepted the position of Executive Vice President – Chief Credit Officer at Northeast Bank. Mark has over 18 years of experience in banking. Mark earned his bachelor’s degree from St. Cloud State University and his MBA from the University of St. Thomas. He also graduated from the Graduate School of Banking in Norman, Oklahoma. Mark’s office is located at the main bank location in Minneapolis.

Where have you been? Look to pastimes for better career planning

Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:49 Julie Desmond • Plan Your Career

Hella Buchheim is a story-teller. She has landed a vocation that meets anyone’s criteria for a great job: she sets her own hours, works with fabulous characters and makes a little money. If she had health insurance, it would be perfect. On her website, Hella writes, “Most writers lament the road not taken. It brings us into a loop of should-as, could-as, would-as. But I want to celebrate the road taken.” Watching Hella write her own story and considering that all of us have loops of shoulda-coulda’s, I got to thinking that a really great career is the one that capitalizes on the road taken. Every connection, every hobby, everything we do to relax comes out of choices we make on our own behalf: The road taken.

Social Security hearings backlog falls to lowest level since 2005

Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:31

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, last week announced that the number of disability hearings pending stands at 697,437 cases -- the lowest level since June 2005 and down more than 71,000 cases since December 2008, when the trend of month-by-month reductions began. In addition, the average processing time for hearing decisions has decreased to 442 days, down from a high of 514 days at the end of fiscal year (FY) 2008.

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