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Expand Work Force Based on Quality, Not Quantity, Warns Former Pentagon official The Defense Department should be careful in how it goes about expanding its acquisition work force   |
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August 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Sec Gates Saving the Juicy Insider Gossip for the Big-Bucks Speaking Circuit Journalists on repeated occasions have asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to compare and contrast Bush & Obama. |
Job Journal
July 18, 2004
Marty Nemko |
Quick Fix: So You're Not Perfect When asked in an interview why you left your previous job, it might be better to simply tell the truth. Sidestepping your shortcomings might hurt in the end. |
Job Journal
March 22, 2009
Marty Nemko |
Quick Fix: So You're Not Perfect Sidestepping your shortcomings could hurt in the end. |
National Defense
September 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Plans to 'In-Source' Contractor Jobs Collide With Fiscal Reality As he unveiled a new wave of austerity measures at the Defense Department, Secretary Robert Gates made a striking acknowledgment: Replacing contractors with government employees does not really save money. |
National Defense
March 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Some Troops Don't Get Fair Share of Deployment Burdens A Pentagon advisory panel suggests that Army and Marine Corps troop-rotation methods may be partly to blame for the stress in the force. |
Job Journal
July 15, 2007
Marty Nemko |
Quick Fix: A Shortcut to Changing Careers Sidestep the traditional job-hunting methods and use your network to its full advantage. |
National Defense
May 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates: Industry Unharmed By Program Cancellations The Pentagon needs to stop buying "exquisite" technology that does not meet real military needs in favor of larger quantities of critical items. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Mark Tibergien |
First Things First Finding workflow solutions specific to your advisory firm can be made easier once you define the actual business you are in and the client service experience you want to deliver. |
Fast Company
May 2005
Alison Overholt |
The People Factor Being a business builder means living in the trenches. It also means you'd better have good people in there with you. Winners' words of wisdom on how to find the best. |
National Defense
January 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
You Want Government to Spend More Wisely? Give It Less Money The government's biggest spenders -- the Pentagon and defense agencies -- are slowly coming to grips with the realization that lean times are indeed coming. |
National Defense
May 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises. |
InternetNews
March 12, 2008 |
Gates Wants More Professional Visas Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked Congress on Wednesday for more visas for skilled professionals, echoing arguments often made by many in the tech sector. |
National Defense
July 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Procurement Blues: After a Decade Of Largesse, Not Much to Show for It After a decade of lavish spending, the Pentagon is now left with an aging fleet of weapon systems, an overstrained force, out-of-control personnel and healthcare costs, and no idea of how to prepare for tomorrow's wars. |
National Defense
June 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon. |
Job Journal
April 29, 2007
Marty Nemko |
Quick Fix: Network Your Way to an Instant Job Learn ways to make your network work for you and your job search. |
National Defense
May 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Medical Costs Threaten Pentagon's Fiscal Health As if his weapons budget proposals weren't already a tough sell on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Robert Gates also will try to get Congress to endorse unpopular health care fees for military retirees. |
National Defense
March 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration. |
National Defense
June 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building. |
Job Journal
August 17, 2003
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Good Managers Hire Smart Workers What decision makers are doing to find the best and brightest. |
National Defense
March 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
In Budgets as in War, Hope Is Not a Strategy Wishful thinking has been taken to new heights in this year's Pentagon budget. The hope is that Congress will somehow make peace after years of partisan trench warfare. |
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June 30, 2010
Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Defense Contractors: We've Got Your Back As Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated plans to cut in excess of $100 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, they also try to reassure that they're not out to hurt anyone -- least of all investors. |
Fast Company
June 2013 |
Can Your First Job Predict Your Future? A slideshow revealing the first jobs that various successful people had. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Roxana Tiron |
Defense Contractors Brace for the Big Squeeze Defense contractors may be in for cutbacks similar to the squeeze that occurred after the end of the Cold War. |
The Motley Fool
October 10, 2010
Surojit Chatterjee |
Holiday Hiring Uptick May Lift Job-Market Gloom Some retailers will add more workers than they did at this time last year. |
National Defense
August 2011 |
Readers Sound off on Recent Stories In 1971, as an Air Force colonel managing the SRAM (Short Range Attack Missile) program, I was directed to initiate a "should cost" estimate. |
Financial Planning
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Bogan & Doss |
Instinct or Intention? You need to hire, train and manage team members, both advisors and staff, to drive a firm's success and profitability. |
Wired
October 2009
Noah Shachtman |
Robert Gates: Overhaul the Pentagon Every secretary of defense talks about changing the Pentagon, then almost immediately gets stymied by bureaucratic resistance. However, Robert Gates' talk is turning into action. |
National Defense
May 2013
Sandra I. Erwin |
Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help. |
National Defense
January 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
'Milspec' Technology Makes a Comeback A rising propensity to "militarize" the Defense Department's information networks will be making it more difficult for the Pentagon to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies from the commercial sector, say analysts and industry experts. |
Job Journal
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Quick Fix: Good Managers Hire Smart Workers What decision makers are doing to find the best and brightest. |
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When and How to Outsource Your Small Business Search Marketing Every small business will reach a point where they have to decide to expand or keep things simple. There are right and wrong ways to hire an outside SEM firm. Following some simple rules can make or break your ROI. |
