According to ManpowerGroup's 2012 Talent Shortage Survey results, 49 percent of U.S. employers struggle to fill mission-critical positions. Skilled trades, engineering and IT positions continue to rank among the top 10 most difficult jobs to fill.

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Hartford-based Kettle Moraine Hardwoods Inc. dries logs and cuts them down for cabinetmakers, furniture makers, contractors and hobbyists.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed at work or school...or both? In “Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours” author Robert C. Pozen will change your mindset from hours worked to results produced.

For those businesses focused on maximizing the effectiveness of their website, gone are the days of simply considering search engine optimization (SEO) and online ads. An increasing number of smart organizations are recognizing that by applying lessons learned from social to their website, they stand to improve traffic and, ultimately, its effectiveness.

After capturing a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do and both national and world titles in the Filipino martial arts form kali arnis, Dr. Shannon Duval empowers her students with the same strength she has relied on in empowering herself.

BizTimes Media LLC is expanding its award-winning editorial team by adding Daniel Shafer as a reporter.

Per our friends at Wikipedia, "The Sandwich Generation" is a generation of people who care for their aging parents...

The Opus Group plans to build a six-story, 80-unit student apartment building at 1400 W. Wells St., adjacent to the Marquette University campus in Milwaukee. The 80 apartments would have a total of 165 bedrooms. The building would also have 8,126 square feet of first floor retail space. The building would be constructed northwest of North 14th Street and West Wells Street. The existing building on the 0.4-acre site, which includes a Subway restaurant and the Kampus Foods store, would be demolished. Korb Tredo Architects is the designer for the project.

It seems there is no way to put a stake in the issue of trust vs. verification. Caterpillar Inc.'s recent $580 million writedown on a Chinese company it acquired in June for $700 million is an example of the principle.

When Dean Mouradian strolled into his office one cold December day two years ago and noticed his office manager struggling to stay warm with a sweater and space heater, he set out to find a better way to help her warm up.

Most Americans take the water heaters in their homes for granted. They probably don't know the brand or think much about how it works.