If you are looking for a job, you should count on employers looking for your LinkedIN profile. It’s becoming a business standard to check people out online before hiring them, whether doing a Google search or looking them up on LinkedIN or Facebook.

You can make your LinkedIN profile work FOR you, by writing a profile designed to help employers find you in searches. What are the steps needed to write a killer LinkedIN profile?

To learn how, read: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2008/05/build-linkedin-profile-that-you-can-be.html

Ever drive down I-84 through Boise towards Oregon?

Cindy Sullivan manages one of the conveniently located Shilo Inns off the highway -- with an address appropriately named: 1401 Shilo Drive, Nampa, Idaho.

Sullivan has put together a team that takes advantage of the best of what Shilo's corporate model has to offer.

For example, Shilo Inns announced this fall that in addition to the myriad of free services they have always offered, guests now receive free unlimited long distance on domestic calls.

If you haven't hit a retailer yet for their doorbuster sales, you should calm down, get a cup of coffee and eat some turkey, and probably forget about it. Most doorbuster deals are already gone. However, if you check your inbox, you will find plenty of Black Friday online deals and Black Friday Internet sales.

The estimated $3.5 billion remaining assets of the Reserve Primary Fund should be distributed on a prorated basis to shareholders, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday in response to lawsuits filed after the fund's value dropped below $1 a share in September 2008.

The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama.

Nov. 26 -- John Purcell, managing director of executive search firm Purcell & Company, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Barton about changes to U.K. bank bonus rules proposed by David Walker in a government-commissioned report.

DUBAI , United Arab Emirates - Just a year after the global downturn derailed Dubai's explosive growth, the city is now so swamped in debt that it's asking for a six-month reprieve on paying its bills - causing a drop on world markets Thursday and raising questions about Dubai's reputation as a magnet for international investment.

The App Store approval, or sometimes, rejection process has been a contentious subject of late. Sometimes Apple rejects an application for what seems to be draconian, or even nonsensical reasons. Sometimes they approve an app, also nonsensically. Well, if your app falls into the former, rejected category, there's a site for that.

The dollar tumbled to 14-year low against the Japanese yen Thursday after indications U.S. interest rates will remain low and that the Federal Reserve isn't overly concerned about the dollar's slide.

The Toyota Motor Corporation said Wednesday that it would fix or replace the accelerator pedals of 4 million vehicles to resolve a widespread problem with unintended acceleration that has stripped some of the luster off the carmaker's reputation for safety and reliability.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday tightened the conflict of interest restrictions governing the boards of directors of its 12 regional banks.

Nov. 25 -- David Davis, managing partner of Arpeggio Partners, talks with Bloomberg's Julie Hyman about the outlook for holiday box office sales.

The United States Mint has suspended sales of their popular one ounce American Gold Eagle and one ounce American Silver Eagle bullion coins.

Consumers got back in the buying mood in October as their incomes grew modestly, an encouraging sign for the budding economic recovery.

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, the Downtown Avalon Park-based firm that provides GIS, transportation planning and engineering, asset management, web design, database applications and multimedia production services to local governments and regional and state agencies throughout the U.S., has been named a Gold Certified Solutions Partner by Kentico Software, named the fastest growing young technology company in the Deloitte FAST 50 Rising Stars last year.

In your job search, Information Is Power. Yet most job seekers don’t invest the time to gain an advantage by gaining better information. What if there was a more effective way? Would you incorporate more effective tactics, even if they weren’t as simple?

To learn how to become a Job Search Guerrilla read: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/guerrilla-job-search-tactics.html

The modest recovery in home prices is beginning to falter, according to data released Tuesday.

GM's plan to sell its Saab division appears dead after a Swedish specialty automaker backed out of a deal to buy the unit.

For years now, people have been buzzing about social media and the opportunity it provides to marketers to drive tons of traffic, brand awareness, conversions, and -- most importantly -- links.

A revised reading on third-quarter Gross Domestic Product shows that the economy is growing, but not as fast as previously thought.