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To change careers, job hunters must tailor resume
CNNMoney.com
“Yet InfoCheckUSA, a company that does background checks for employers, finds widespread inaccuracies on resumes. About 10 percent of the resumes the company sees contain falsified education information, most often listing degrees earned when the applicant merely attended the school, according to Chris Dugger, InfoCheckUSA’s president. About 30 percent have employment dates that are not correct, he said. No one wants to be that one person in the job market who’s lacking a credential he fears the competition may have. “But what is worse is having a job offer rescinded,” Winegardner said, “or even worse, being terminated post-hire.
Cut link between pension savings, employment, think-tank urges
Canada.com, Canada
But a private-sector worker earning the same amount would be limited half of that under the RRSP system. Pierlot said every Canadian should be given a lifetime retirement-plan accumulation limit in the area of $1 million, and that includes RRSPs and all pension plans, whether they are defined contributions or defined benefits. He said the $1-million figure is in the mid-range of what a typical public-sector worker accumulates in their pension plans during a career – and in many cases, it is much more. Because people’s ability to put money into retirement plans changes from year to year, Pierlot said there should be no annual limits to contributions.