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With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, I am reminded of the concept of luck. Some may believe it was luck that helped them to land a job, or it was luck that helped them move their career forward. As someone who works with job seekers and as an HR professional, I know there is no such thing as luck when it comes to the job search and hiring process.

IOWA CITY — The search for a 22nd University of Iowa president has seemed mostly quiet for months while consultants, along with committee and community members, engaged in the behind-the-scenes work of recruiting and nominating prospects — in hopes of developing a robust applicant pool.

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials released guidance Monday that gives fully vaccinated Americans more freedom to socialize and pursue routine daily activities, providing a pandemic-weary nation a first glimpse of what a new normal may look like in coming months.

Linn County residents with underlying medical conditions can begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine next week, public health officials announced over the weekend.

Longtime Rockwell Collins leader Robert Kelly Ortberg retired from his role at Raytheon Technologies, the company’s chief executive officer Greg Hayes said in a LinkedIn post last week.Ortberg, who was most recently listed as a special adviser to Hayes, was president of Rockwell Collins from 2012 to 2018, later adding CEO and chairman to his title.

Police have identified the driver who died Sunday in a vehicle collision on Interstate 380 North as 23-year-old David Phuong Nguyen, of Cedar Rapids.

CEDAR RAPIDS — “For years I’ve been a magnet for homeless animals,” Nicki Brodersen said. “It got to the point where it was impossible for me, time-wise and also financially, to do it on my own.”Brodersen began taking in strays while living in Jones County and working as a landscaper.

With Iowa’s jobless rate at a low 3.1 percent, finding and keeping workers — in the service industry or manufacturing, agriculture or for office positions, at for-profits or not-for-profits, in large or small communities — continues to be a vexing challenge for employers.

Some of the most horrific scenes early in the COVID-19 pandemic were in places like Italy and New York, where hospitals became overwhelmed with ailing and dying patients.The images were jarring, but those tragedies were taking place thousands of miles away in large cities.

Iowa’s 3rd District U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, the state’s lone Democrat in Congress, has come under scrutiny for her support of the White House’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal, the American Rescue Plan.