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The vast majority of job seekers admit to emotions ranging from mild uneasiness to downright panic leading up to their interviews. The good news is there have been no reported cases of job seekers who died of nervousness during a job interview.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said he was not making a prediction and had not seen official data in advance, but rather had read a news article that pointed to the possibility of a revision.

“There will be a jobs revision I’m told tomorrow that’s likely to show additional job loss at the first part of the recession that started in December 2007, making the whole of job loss that we’ve dealt with even deeper,” Gibbs said.

Ken Lewis, former Bank of America chief executive, and Joe Price, the bank’s former chief financial officer, are named in the charges by Andrew Cuomo, the attorney-general of New York.

Administrative Law Judge Linda Chapman ruled the Charlotte-based bank was biased against African-American applicants for entry-level jobs in 1993 and from 2002-05. The findings were the result of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

Following last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a series of initiatives for small businesses including a $5,000 per new employee tax credit, and the establishment of a $30 billion small business lending fund created from leftover TARP money.

Home Depot’s profit is about even with last year for the first nine months of the fiscal year, a period that ended Nov. 1, while revenue is down about 9 percent.

A few years ago, I led a team of 12 managers. This team included a diverse group of individuals. I found myself repeating to them, “Row the boat in the same direction.”

Official says “around 100″ jobs at Claremore-based Centrilift are scheduled to be moved to the the Baker-Hughes Co. branch in Houston.

Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest retailer, is cutting about 11,200 jobs at its Sam’s Club warehouses, the company told its employees in a memo on Sunday.

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