Employment Topics
Body Art in the Workplace
Nearly 40 years after "flower power," body art has seen a resurgence. Men and women flaunt pierced n...
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Ellison Says, Stock Only
A look at Oracle Corp's (ORCL) proxy statement filed September 11, 2000, reveals that CEO Lawrence E...
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Dividend Reinvestment Plans
If you're short on cash but keen to build an investment portfolio, you may want to consider a DRIP. ...
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How should I prepare for my review?
My performance review is coming soon, and I would like to learn more about the do's and don'ts of pe...
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Index Funds
Who has the time, interest, or confidence to pick and track individual stocks (unless, of course, it...
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How should I represent my co-op position on my resume?
I am working on my associate degree with a double major in purchasing/business management. I have be...
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Physician Career Education and Advancement
Physicians serve an essential role in our society. They diagnose and treat sick and injured people t...
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Be an Ant, Not a Grasshopper*
Most people know they should invest for the future, but at least half would like to do better. In a ...
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Should I leave my startup to seek a better salary and title?
I joined my current company (Pre-IPO) right out of school as a junior QA engineer testing our produc...
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How to Evaluate a Job Offer
Just like an interview, a job offer can tell you a great deal about a potential employer. An offer c...
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The Temporary Staffing Industry
In September and October of 2004, U.S. firms topped the 100,000 mark in announced job cuts, accordin...
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Salaried vs. Hourly
I recently hired on to a new company and could use some advice. On my second interview with my new c...
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Should I let headhunters lure me away?
I have been at the same company for three years. I work in a relatively small, but expensive state a...
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Is the grass greener somewhere else?
I keep hearing and seeing salary surveys that say I should be making about $10,000 to $20,000 more t...
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Terms and Definitions
Before taking advantage of your stock options or participating in an employee stock purchase plan, i...
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Everything is Negotiable
It's all negotiable. Every new job - every performance review, in fact - is an opportunity to negoti...
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12 Ways to Get out of Credit Card Debt
Everybody with a credit card knows it's smart to pay what you owe at the end of every month - right?...
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Bullish on the Network
Have you been to a trade association event lately? Suddenly heard from an old college buddy? With so...
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Did my time off affect my raise?
I took some time off this year, and I think it affected my performance review. I got only a 2 percen...
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The Importance of Job Descriptions
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Salary History
At some point in the job application process, you might find yourself in a tight spot. What do you d...
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Executive Compensation
In researching the pay for an executive position, it's best to consult several of the many sources ...
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What to Look for Before, During, and After an Interview
An interview is the only time during the hiring process when you and your interviewer can form a mut...
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Could an employee get a promotion without a raise?
Would you discuss the risks of promoting a deserving employee (title change) but not increasing sala...
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Option Grant Practices in High-Tech Companies
Until it became common practice in the last decade to offer stock options to a relatively broad spec...
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Hiding a Job Search
I work in an office that has a casual atmosphere. Next week I have a job interview at a company with...
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How do I get the raise I thought I was promised?
I was promised by my supervisor, but not in writing, that the company would increase my pay by 10 p...
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Industry Commitment to Training
In a study by the American Society for Training and Development, more than 750 U.S organizations pro...
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How close to the median should I be?
As my experience runs a little short of the job requirements, what should I submit as my salary requ...
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Productivity Bonuses
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How do I trade off long-term incentives for short-term ones?
I work for a company that pays me $72,000 a year with no bonus. However, they match 50 cents to the ...
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Preparation for Meetings
No matter how informal the meeting, preparation in advance can improve the effectiveness of the meet...
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Dress Code
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Inventor
"Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity...
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You're It! How Layoffs Happen and What to Expect
Michelle Babineau of Boston, Mass. has been laid off three times in seven months. The dot-com vetera...
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Life and Work in a Temporary Job
You've decided to give temping a try and have found an agency that appears to serve your needs. You'...
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Eager to Please
I have an interview tomorrow with a prominent company and am very eager to please them. Can you give...
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Pay Structures
A company's pay structure is the method of administering its pay philosophy. The two leading types o...
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Should I take the offer or the counteroffer?
I've recently been offered a position in another company making $6,000 more than I earn now. When I ...
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Can the U.S. government give my prospective employer a salary cap?
I am being seriously considered for a position with a large Washington, DC-area IT consulting compan...
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Should I show a prospective employer my pay stub?
I am in negotiation with an employer for a higher position than the one I currently hold. They are a...
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Pay Philosophies
A pay philosophy is a company's commitment to how it values employees. A consistent pay philosophy g...
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Stock Market Indexed CDs
People work hard for their money, so risky investments often make them think twice. A volatile stock...
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Should I ask for more in base if I'm happy with my total compensation?
How do I go about requesting a "fair" base salary when the company knows I'm happy with my overall c...
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Revising Job Description
I have been working as a human resources assistant for the last two and a half years. Although I had...
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Do I have rights regarding my raise?
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Full-Service Brokers
"Full-service" brokers get their name and reputation from the dogged and devoted work they're expect...
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The Gift of a College Degree Lasts a Lifetime
Any way you measure it, a college degree is the best investment of your life. In today's dollars, a ...
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Should I ask for $25,000 more?
I was hired four years ago as a desktop technician for a Fortune 500 company. Since then I have sky...
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Can my boss get away with nepotism in pay raises?
My boss has cut back my hours because of budgetary concerns, yet she has "found" the money in her b...
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Industry News
Avo Photonics Names VP, Sales and Marketing
Avo Photonics of Horsham, Pa., specialists in optical packaging, has announced that Neal R. Stoker h...
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Edmund Optics Adds 2 to Asia Team
Edmund Optics (EO), a Barrington, N.J.-based maker of optics, imaging and photonics technology, ...
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Feds Raid Spectranetics
Spectranetics Corp. said it is cooperating fully with an investigation related to its products and b...
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Innovative Silicon Names Michael Van Buskirk Senior VP
Innovative Silicon Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., developer of the Z-Ram zero-capacitor floating body ...
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Adept Technology Taps President, John Dulchinos, to be CEO
Adept Technology Inc. of Livermore, Calif., a leading provider of intelligent automation software fo...
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Helios Project Awarded $12M
Helios, a four-year project that seeks to find an innovative way to combine a photonic layer with a ...
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Sonofusion Scholar Sanctioned
A Purdue University professor found to have committed research misconduct will remain on the faculty...
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Newport Outsourcing Lasers
Newport Corp. will move some of its laser and other manufacturing to China and cut about 10 percent ...
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Edmund Optics Celebrates 15 Years in China
Edmund Optics (EO), producer of optics, imaging, and photonics technology, has announced they will c...
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Atom Smasher Dates Fine Wine
French scientists are using high-energy ion beams from a particle accelerator to tell vintage Bordea...
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Former DARPA Manager to Lead R&D at QinetiQ
Technology solutions developer QinetiQ North America of McLean, Va., announced that its Technology S...
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AiDi appoints Katsunari Okamoto as CTO
AiDi Corp., a global company that specializes in passive optical network (PON) products and services...
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BitFlow Taps Cooper Vision as Canadian Rep.
Cooper Vision Technologies has been named Canadian distributor for BitFlow Inc., manufacturer of ind...
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Jmar to Develop Lasers for Johns Hopkins APL
San Diego-based Jmar Technologies Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop two prototype special ...
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Janos Acquired by Fluke
Precision infrared optics manufacturer Janos Technology of Keene, N.H., announced today it has been ...
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Coherent Lays Off 144
According to documents filed with California’s Employment Development Department, Coherent Inc. laid...
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Joint PV Project for Rofin-Sinar, Manz
Rofin-Sinar of Plymouth, Mich., a manufacturer of high-performance laser beam sources and laser-base...
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Newport Unit to Cut 80 Jobs
Newport Corp.'s Spectra-Physics facility in Tucson has laid off 29 of its 200 workers and will let a...
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Lab to Reopen After Injury
Three weeks after one of its senior engineers was seriously injured, the Laboratory for Laser Energe...
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Epolin Mourns Loss of Morris Dunkel
Epolin Inc. of Newark, N.J., has announced that Morris Dunkel, member of the company’s board of dire...
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Lawrence Tan Hired as JPK’s Singapore Manager
JPK Instruments of Berlin has hired Lawrence Tan as the new Singapore manager for all its Asian sal...
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Vitex, Novaled Collaborate on OLEDs
San Jose, Calif.-based Vitex, a maker of thin-film encapsulation, and Novaled of Dresden, Germany, w...
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Cilas Nabs New Monomorph Deformable Mirror Customers
Cilas of France, a maker of lasers, optronics products and systems for defense and security applicat...
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Photronics Names New VP for US and Europe
Photronics Inc. of Brookfield, Conn., a supplier of photomask-based imaging solutions for the global...
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Hoya Vision Care Expands in Czech Republic
Vision Care, a division of Hoya Corp., and maker of ophthalmic lenses, has announced that it acquire...
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Jozef Straus to Chair GigOptix Advisory Board
GigOptix LLC of Palo Alto, Calif., a maker of high-speed circuits for optical communications and sto...
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Chip Vision Taps Craig Cochran as VP
Chip Vision Design Systems, which helps semiconductor companies reduce power consumption with system...
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Lockheed Awards Multimillion Dollar Contract to LightWorks
LightWorks Optics Inc. of Tustin, Calif., has been awarded a multimillion-dollar direct commercial s...
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Cancer Probe Trials Funded
A new grant will allow a researcher to continue developing and testing a device that uses light to d...
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Steve Kelley Joins Cree as Chief Operating Officer
Steve Kelley has joined Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C. as executive vice president and chief operating of...
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John Markovich Hired as Emcore CFO
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Emcore Corp. announced that its board of directors has appointed John M. Mar...
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Laservision Adds Rich Greene to Sales Team
Laser protective product maker Laservision USA of St. Paul, Minn., announced it has added Rich Green...
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Bruker AXS Buying AFM Maker
Analytical x-ray systems manufacturer Bruker AXS GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced it will acqui...
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Bami Bastani Resigns as Anadigics CEO
Anadigics of Warren, N.J., a provider of semiconductor solutions in wireless and wireline communicat...
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Prism Awards Entry Deadline is Sept. 12
The submissions deadline for the first annual Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation is Sept. 12. The...
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NXP's Pascal Langlois Transfers to Wireless Venture
NXP Semiconductors of Eindhoven, Netherlands, an independent semiconductor company founded by Philip...
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Teseda Taps Mark Moore as VP; Adds Silicon Valley Office
Teseda Corp. of Portland, Ore., provider of diagnostic and debug solutions for semiconductor yield i...
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Arbor Photonics to Commercialize UMich Optical Fiber
Arbor Photonics of Ann Arbor, Mich., has signed an exclusive license agreement for chirally-coupled ...
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SPIE Show Soars
This year’s SPIE Optics+Photonics symposium was the largest meeting of the annual symposium thus far...
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AEi and 3-Edge Partner for European Sales
Automation Engineering Inc. (AEi) of Wilmington, Mass., will partner with 3-Edge of Munich, Germany,...
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John Carson Appointed Chairman of Irvine Sensors
Irvine Sensors Corp., of Costa Mesa, Calif., a developer of compact solid-state microcircuitry for m...
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Lockheed Buys Nanotech Unit
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced it has acquired the government business unit of p...
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Plexus Closing Mass. Plant
Plexus Corp. announced today it will close its Ayer, Mass., manufacturing facility by March 2009, el...
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ORA Announces Design Contest Winners
Optical software maker Optical Research Associates (ORA) of Pasadena, Calif., announced it has selec...
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Indium Adds 2 to Solar Engineering Team
Indium Corp. of Clinton, N.Y., announced it has hired Clark Scharett and Justin Weiler as manufa...
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Reliant, Philips Partner for Home Laser Skin Care
Reliant Technologies Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., developer of Fraxel laser systems, has announce...
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Veeco, Asylum Research Settle AFM Patent Dispute
Metrology and process equipment provider Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., announced today ...
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Zecotek Photonics: Talented Team Brings Rapid Success
For Zecotek Photonics, the key to its rapid success doesn't lie in cutting-edge technology, an impre...
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Serious Injury Closes Lab
Operations have been suspended at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE...
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Engineer Hurt in Laser Lab
A senior lab engineer at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was ser...
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