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“I’m a hiring manager at a local company looking to fill several positions. I’ve noticed that about two-thirds of our applicants don’t send cover letters while about a third do.  While I  feel a little guilty about it,  I have ...

If you had known, in early 2020, that you might be working from home during a multi-year, global pandemic, would you have bought Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (Zoom)? Zoom had not yet become a household word when, during the first ...

In my 10 years at Tompkins and 35 cumulative years in the banking field, I’ve witnessed the industry undergo several revolutionary changes — the automation of transactions, the evolution of technology, and most recently, the shift to all-virtual routine interactions. ...

If you’re in your 50s – o.k. early 50s – you probably remember a time when a gallon of gas cost less than a dollar, when a gumball cost a penny and when a giant shopping cart of groceries cost ...

This scribe has always loved catchy nicknames, so I was intrigued when the Buffalo Bills selected someone known as “The Punt God” in the sixth round of the recent NFL Draft. Matt Araiza earned that divine moniker after booming an ...

With some COVID-19 restrictions relaxing and others already lifted, the smell of tourism is in the air. Demand for leisure travel is skyrocketing, and the booking pace for travel in the northern hemisphere spring is 49% higher than this time ...

“I don’t control life, but I can control how I react to it.” —Macklemore Isn’t life grand? Ok, let’s be honest — life can be pretty amazing. However, it’s no secret we’ve all experienced those times in life where it ...

We are so proud to have hosted the ROC on Tech conference, which was held April 13th in the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center. This year’s conference was a total sellout, and we even managed to squeeze in ...

Economic growth is expected to slow for the first quarter of 2022, with estimates for GDP currently hovering around 1% after finishing 2021 at 2.3%. If GDP estimates are correct, it will be our lowest quarterly reading since the second ...

Contemporary discussions about the political impact of immigration in the U.S. are based on three seemingly immutable points.

It seemed like a good deal at the time – a rattletrap Ford van with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in exchange for a promising thoroughbred whose family tree included Man o’ War, Native Dancer and the father ...

Every manager at every level has experienced it — that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach when one of your valued team members walks in and resigns. With today’s “Great Resignation” continuing full force, chances are you’ve experienced ...

There has never been a better time to consider the sustainability of your program activities and take action to address unsustainable programs. Whether your organization is in an unusually strong financial position because of COVID relief funds or in an ...

As the world enters year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has issued a warning to employers of yet another risk to their businesses: caregiver discrimination claims. It is no surprise that the pandemic has ...

Some years ago, financial author and advisor, Bill Schultheis, devised a simple game to illustrate the difficulty faced by investors who try to outguess the stock market and the utility of knowing the odds of success. The game called “Outfoxing ...