It isn't every day that sales assistant Christine Nelson gets treated to a four-star restaurant dinner. Wanting to savor every morsel of the experience, she asked to have her leftovers bagged, took it to work the next day and salivated all morning thinking about her delicious lunch. When she opened the...

For two years, JC, 24, pursued his co-worker, Tessa. But she was in a relationship. Then, one day she wasn't and she let JC know that she had been feeling the same way about him. Two weeks later he got a job offer he couldn't refuse, but that meant relocating 1,000 miles away. Tessa told him she didn't...

Want to know how much the times they are a-changin'? Consider this: back in 1939, in the movie 'Gone With the Wind,' Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) turned to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and said those infamous words, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." The single utterance of one word -- "damn,"...

It's official! "Kate and William Mania" has taken hold everywhere. While we can understand the fascination throughout the United Kingdom with the upcoming royal wedding, it seems, stateside, we are also gaga over the royals. And that is a very good thing for the recession-weary because the royal wedding...

When fictional television anchor Howard Beale leaned out of the window, chanting, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" in the 1976 movie 'Network,' he struck a chord with workers everywhere. "Movies about the workplace resonate with audiences because -- even though we may not have it as...

Like many unemployed people, Zakiya Pope carefully scoured multiple job sites and sent out countless resumes only to be greeted with a deafening silence. No calls, no e-mail replies, not even a rejection letter. Then, AOL Jobs came calling ... Pope was selected as one of the winners of AOL's Resume Writing...

How important is body language? One look at the scathing reviews that Academy Awards co-host James Franco received for his demeanor during the ceremony and you'll know! From The Hollywood Reporter: "Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display...

When is a job not a job? The answer is, when you work for free ... otherwise known as an unpaid internship. The subject of internships has been in the news quite a bit recently thanks to Charlie Sheen's Twitter search for a social media intern resulting in close to 75,000 applications. Add to that a job...

There's an old Taoist saying -- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." For job seekers caught up in the web of massive unemployment, that first step is a resume. When you send out your resume, you can expect some stiff competition. Here's a sobering statistic from the U.S. Bureau of...