In a state that has lost 800,000 manufacturing jobs this decade, old factories are being retooled to make renewable-energy products. - [Read more]

Katie and Wylie Schwieder of Richmond, Va., turned to teaching.About 600 alternative certification programs contribute roughly 20 percent of the country’s new teachers each year. - [Read more]

As the financial crisis has continued to unfold, new suspicions of fraud have been emerging ? and with them a need to find whether there is evidence of wrongdoing. - [Read more]

Potential retirees in the U.S. are clinging to jobs because of financial losses, while Europeans are retiring in lockstep. - [Read more]

In the last 20 years, much more science has been added to a curriculum traditionally based on hair and skin care. - [Read more]

Updating the content of your résumé is only half the battle -- how you wield it online determines how effective it can be. - [Read more]

Business students graduating this year know they are less likely to get a job offer in investment banking. For some, that’s liberating. - [Read more]

Restaurants and manufacturers said their productivity was suffering since the government cracked down on the hiring of new foreign workers. - [Read more]

Within companies, mentoring has become more of a two-way street. - [Read more]

The situation is troubling for coming graduates, but it certainly isn?t hopeless. - [Read more]