Information Overload

Most employers will tell you that job seekers routinely make obvious, painful errors on their resumes that cost them the job. And while there are online tools that will help you avoid making some of these mistakes, such as punctuation errors, most tools won't catch these four major blunders. ...

If you're like the majority of Americans these days, you're suffering from information overload. You're constantly bombarded by media messages every hour of the day and night, and personal and professional e-mails, texts and tweets come at you round the clock, blurring the boundaries of when exactly you're on ...

We've all done it -- half-glanced at an e-mail, deemed it unimportant, deleted it, and moved on. Then some time later, the other half we didn't read comes back to bite us in some way. But with information overload flooding our lives at every turn, what can we do? It's not easy to change ADD-inspired ways, but ...

"There are just never enough hours in a day it seems," says real estate broker-agent Eric Hernandez of the A & E Group in Arlington, Va. His office line rings nonstop, as does his cell phone. His e-mail's inbox overflows with new messages every 30 seconds, and agents pop into his office continually with ...