From sending a shoe along with a resume to wearing no footwear at all at an interview, many job candidates have tried unconventional tactics to get a hiring managers attention, the findings from a national survey show.Executives were asked, a

Predictions from nearly every economic sector here point to a vibrant year aheadPull out your sunglasses, because the economy here looks to be brightening.Based on interviews with dozens of experts and observers in the industry sectors that

Avista Advantage, Avista Corp.s long unprofitable subsidiary, finally has broken into the black.The subsidiary, a third-party manager of utility bills and other facility charges for businesses, chalked up pre-tax income of $823,000 from and 1

Wells Fargo Bank has added a number of business bankers and increased its retail branch staffing here substantially over the last year, says Don Young, who became its community bank president here in April 2003.Young says Wells Fargo had three

Columbia Paint & Coatings Inc., the Spokane-based manufacturer and retailer of paints and coatings, has opened its third store in the Boise market, giving it 36 stores overall.The store is located at 1396 E. Iron Eagle Drive in the Boise into a

Online enrollment for benefits continues to be the No. 1 choice for U.S. employees, with 77percent using the Internet to enroll this year, according to research conducted by Hewitt Associates, the big human resources outsourcing and consulting an

Agricultural workers who perform thinningremoving young buds from orchard trees to increase the size of the remaining fruitface a greater likelihood of pesticide exposure than other farm workers, according to new findings from Fred Hutchinson a

Window Products Inc., the Liberty Lake-based vinyl-window maker, plans to open distribution centers in the Seattle area and Salt Lake City to penetrate those markets further and to stay on a brisk growth clip.Mark McVay, Window Products vice

While promoting other businesses and organizations, WhiteRunkle Associates, a full-service advertising agency here, has created a pleasant byproduct: its own success. The 23-year-old Spokane-based firm, which serves clients ranging from AT&T

The sound of American Indian music and the scent of herbs greet customers as they walk in the door of All Nations Native Art & Fur Co., in northwest Spokane. Beaded items, pieces of pottery, and powwow regalia fill the shelves and cover the walls,