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Welcome to this web-exclusive podcast focused on your careers - not the needs of your clients or employees, but on how to take care of #1 in today's downtrodden economic state. Last week, first-time unemployment claims rose to the highest level since September 2001, and more cuts are surely around the corner as companies realize difficulty meeting 2009 budget expectations. We're here today with Chuck Wright of leading executive recruitment firm Santon Chase International.

News You Can't Use (or can you?): Counting down the 'sweetest' HR jobs

Layoffs, rising costs, stagnant wages -- here's a ray of light in what has become an increasingly gloomy employment environment. Check out the five 'sweetest' HR jobs, as listed by Workforce Management. Nope, none as CHRO at Hershey -- I checked.