5 trends to get your career on track: what to expect in a fast-paced, ever-changing marketplace
As graduating students, job seekers, and current employees look to advance their careers, the only certainty is that opportunities will not be found doing business as usual. We asked several experts to give us a glimpse into what fast-trackers can expect.

The new succeed-at-work trick: get organized!
Whether you work in a cubicle or on a laptop in your living room, your surroundings can have a profound effect on your health and well-being. Experts say even little things--clutter, noise and interruptions--can cause significant job stress.

Don't Let Personal Connections Interfere With Work
Byline: Kenneth Bredemeier
It's not uncommon to find yourself working alongside a close friend due to networking or just plain luck. And this can be a pleasure -- as long as you don't let the personal relationship affect job performance.

Balancing Work, More Work and Life
Byline: Lily Garcia
I was recently hired as an administrative assistant to help three busy executives who travel extensively. Two of the three use different e-mail operating systems, so I'm operating two different computers -- one desktop and one laptop -- and they change their travel schedules frequently.

Inadequate employment
The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment. By David Dooley and Joann Prause. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 274 pp., $85/hardback.

Employment numbers bode well for state market
The Northern/Central New Jersey office market continued to experience improvement through the second quarter of 2005 due to positive job growth in the state, according to the findings of CB Richard Ellis' 2nd Quarter Marketview and the Summer 2005 New Jersey Office Update by Torto Wheaton Research, the provider of research services to owners and investors in the U.S. and Canadian commercial real estate markets and a business unit of CB Richard Ellis.

Big employers opt for retiree drug subsidy
Nearly 80 percent of the nation's largest private employers currently providing retiree health benefits planned to accept a government subsidy for continuing to offer drug coverage that's at least as good as Medicare's after the new drug benefit started this year, a new survey found.

Research confirms that employers will choose young workers over older workers
Employers, given the choice between young and old workers, generally prefer youth over experience, according to a new research paper. And while the study indicates that age discrimination exists in the workplace, the degree of it and the reasons for it are not crystal clear.

Career arrears: stop wasting time sheets in the career you don't want and park yourself behind the desk of one you do
At work, do you spend most of your time focusing on the duties of the career you wish you had? Join the club. Whether you're flipping burgers at Mickey D's or flipping companies in merger-and-acquisition deals, there's a good chance you're not thrilled with your current gig. No wonder experts say the average guy changes careers up to six times. Here are the four easiest ways to shed your current job and find a new one that truly suits you.