Other Hiring News in Brief

Echidne of the Snakes shares her thoughts on age discrimination.
A Japanese company offers its workers one to three days of paid “heartache leave” to recover from a bad breakup, Reuters reports.
Dean Dad responds to a department chair who wonders how to deal with a married couple who work in his department.
Absinthe describes her frustrating attempts to land a job as a trailing spouse in the only physics department in a small university town.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the latest hiring trend in university coaching.