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Even in this economy, some jobs are in demand - Indianapolis Star
Oracle offered job to ex-HP CEO Hurd: source - Yahoo Finance
Jobs data continues to lift global equities - Yahoo Finance
Tattoos may still be job interview killer - St. Petersburg Times

Even in this economy, some jobs are in demand - Indianapolis Star

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:47 AM PDT

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Oracle offered job to ex-HP CEO Hurd: source - Yahoo Finance

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:55 AM PDT

On Monday September 6, 2010, 6:37 am EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp has offered a job to Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal involving inaccurate expense receipts related to a female contractor, according to a source familiar with the situation.

The source said a final decision has not yet been made. Oracle was not immediately available for a comment.

Hurd resigned on August 6, after a probe into sexual harassment allegations. HP said he filed inaccurate expense reports related to Jodie Fisher, a marketing contractor who worked for Hurd's office from 2007 through 2009.

A separate source had previously told Reuters that Hurd had received job overtures from private equity firms and public companies immediately after his shocking departure from HP, the world's largest technology company by revenue.

It was unclear what job Hurd was offered.

On August 9, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, in a letter, slammed HP's decision to oust Hurd, his close friend, calling the actions of HP's board "cowardly.

Shares of HP are down 13 percent since Hurd's resignation. Plucked from relative obscurity to head HP, Hurd is credited with resuscitating the technology giant by cutting costs and pursuing ambitious acquisitions.

HP said the expense reports were meant to hide a "close personal relationship" with Fisher, a sometime actress who has appeared in television shows and movies.

(Reporting by Ritsuko Ando, additional reporting by Jonathan Spicer, editing by Maureen Bavdek and Marguerita Choy)

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Posted: 06 Sep 2010 01:10 AM PDT

On Monday September 6, 2010, 7:20 am EDT

By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent

LONDON (Reuters) - Encouraging news about the U.S. employment picture continued to spill over onto financial markets on Monday, lifting world stocks on hopes that a slip back into recession could be avoided.

The mood continued despite a relatively gloomy outlook from Olivier Blanchard, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, who told France's Le Figaro he expected weak growth in both the United States and Europe.

Some investors, particularly in Asia, were catching up with Friday's U.S. jobs data, which was not as bad as some had feared.

The slowing of the U.S. economy has been one of the major factors holding investors back over recent months.

MSCI's all-country world stock index (^MIWD00000PUS - News) and its Thomson Reuters counterpart (^TRXFLDGLPU - News) were up more than 0.4 percent after a nearly 3.7 percent gains for the MSCI last week.

Europe's FTSEurofirst 300 (^FTEU3 - News) edged slightly higher, up around 0.1 percent.

The jobs data was supportive, but utilities shares topped the gainers list after Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government agreed to a two-tier extension of the lifespans of German nuclear power plants on Sunday.

Trading was also thin because U.S. markets are closed for Labor Day.

Japan's Nikkei (Osaka:^N225 - News) earlier closed up 2.05 percent.

"After a string of disappointing numbers, the data last week provided an element of stability and helped increase risk appetite," said Henk Potts, equity strategist at Barclays Wealth.

"When you couple that with the outlook for corporates, it looks pretty good."

The latest corporate earnings season has been relatively strong in both the United States and Europe while merger and acquisition activity in August was the most robust for the month since 1999.

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The dollar was generally weaker with the euro rising for a time to its highest in three weeks before easing back.

"We are seeing some relief from fears about a double-dip recession in the U.S. helping risk sentiment and the euro," said Gareth Berry, currency strategist at UBS. "But whether this sentiment can be sustained or not is difficult to say."

The euro was down 0.1 percent at $1.2879, having risen to $1.2918 earlier in the day, its highest since August 12.

The dollar index, a gauge of the greenback's performance against a basket of six major currencies, was flat (^DXY - News) and the dollar fell slightly to 84.26 yen, not far from a 15-year low of 83.58 hit late last month.

Euro zone government bond yields fell after Friday's post-jobs selloff.

(Additional reporting by Atul Prakash and Anirban Nag)

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Tattoos may still be job interview killer - St. Petersburg Times

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 01:32 AM PDT

Jobs | Interview appearance

By Tim Grant, Scripps Howard News Service
In Print: Tuesday, September 7, 2010

While visible tattoos and body piercings have become more acceptable in mainstream society, they can still carry a stigma in the white-collar workplace. • "When you present yourself in the workplace, you need to recognize that people will naturally make a judgment about how you look," said Sue Thompson, a workplace consultant and speaker based in Wilmington, Del. "You need to look like you mean business."

There was a time when tattoos were strictly out of bounds — unless you happened to be a sailor. Today they have evolved into a fashion statement routinely seen on professional athletes, rock stars, models, movie stars and other high-profile figures who set the cultural agenda.

But when it comes to corporate America — especially in certain industries where more conservative standards of appearance rule the day such as banking, law, accounting and insurance — tattoos and body piercings can hurt your chances of landing a job or advancing in your career.

"As a job seeker, you have to judge whether the employer you are interviewing with is going to be accepting of your body art," said John Challenger, CEO of global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc. "If that is not the case and that is where you really want to work, then you have to make an effort to conceal your tattoos and take out your piercings."

If the tattoos and piercings are a big part of how someone sees himself, it might be a mistake to try to cover them up during the interview, said Diane Samuels, a career and image consultant based in New York.

"I would say don't cover them," she said, "because that's like covering up who you are. You want to be authentic when interviewing, or the interviewer could walk away thinking there was something not quite right with you even if he or she is unable to identify what it was."

In this day and age, employers might have a difficult time finding candidates without some type of body embellishment.

The Food and Drug Administration estimates as many as 45 million Americans have at least one tattoo. A 2010 Pew Research Center report revealed tattoos on 38 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 and 32 percent of people ages 30 to 45.

Richard Citrin, an executive coach and career counselor in O'Hara, believes that as the younger generation moves into management, there will be a greater acceptance of piercings and tattoos in the white-collar workplace.

"As recently as 15 years ago, you didn't see too many guys wearing earrings, but today we don't think twice about guys wearing earrings," Citrin said.

"In time, tattoos will have the same acceptance as women coming into the workplace wearing pants instead of dresses," he said. "This is how society changes."

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