Resume burnishing is a common practice. Unless it crosses the line into falsehoods, there's every reason to put your best foot forward. If you were a contributor to a highly successful project, that's worth noting. If you claim you led the team, that's a lie that will trip you up.

Now what recruiters are seeing more of is phony references. And they're not being fooled.

There's nothing new about falsifying ...

And the most stressful profession is -- drumroll please -- Human Resources.

Seriously?

Yes, seriously. At least in the UK, says a study by Perkbox. After surveying some 16,000 professionals in more than 50 British cities, the HR technology company reported that 79% of the HR professionals said they were stressed by their job. That's more than legal workers, the next largest group, where 63% said the job caused stress and ...

We had an acquaintance who was a software engineer with a security clearance who regularly complained about all the calls he got from recruiters. It's a problem most job seekers only wish they had.

For most job seekers, the opposite is true. They send out tons of resumes only to hear little. Many will go on several interviews before getting an offer. (The average, depending on industry and job, ranges ...

This Veteran's Day brings good job news for the nation's veterans. The unemployment rate for veterans of what's called Gulf War Era II -- the period after 9/11 -- has fallen to 3.5%, just slightly over the 3.3% reported for the nation as a whole. For all veterans, the unemployment rate is 3.0%.

Eight years ago the unemployment rate for the Gulf II vets was 15.2%, prompting ...

One of the unfortunate consequences of a course of antibiotics is that besides killing off the infection for which they were prescribed, they also kill off "good bacteria."

These good bacteria live mostly in the human gut, helping the body metabolize food, fight off bad microbes, produce vitamin K and, researchers are just beginning to discover, can do even more. Studies are finding that gut bacteria may predict susceptibility ...

Pizza is arguably America's favorite food. 21% of us would eat only pizza if we had to for the rest of our lives. "Billions and billions" of hamburgers may have been sold, but we gobble down 350 slices of pizza every second and 40% of us eat pizza at least once a week.

What is it about pizza that makes it so addicting? That's what 5 year-old Annika ...

The newest office in the Green Key Resources family opened Nov. 1 in the Loop, the heart of Chicago’s business district. The second of Green Key’s Chicagoland offices, the office will expand our focus on placing tech professionals across all industries.

Headed by Executive Director David Levy, the team will fill the broad range of tech roles, offering contract, contract to hire and direct hire placements for help ...

Alternative asset managers are judged on their performance. So why don't they do the same when it comes to judging job candidates?

That's the advice Sham Mustafa, co-founder of quantitative assessment specialist Correlation One, gave to a London quant conference last week. "Don’t look at the resume, look at the performance,” eFinancialCareers quoted him as telling his audience.

That might seem like a no-brainer, but Mustafa told the attendees ...

Now that the interview is over, every job hunter knows -- or should -- to send thank you notes to the hiring manager, recruiter and everyone else they spoke with.

It's a way to emphasize your strong points and shore up any areas where you might have been weak. Skipping the thank you note could even cost you the job.

But don't stop there. There are plenty of other things -- 20, to ...