The Start-Up of You
Released only yesterday, The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha has already skyrocked to number four of the top 100 books on amazon.com. What holds the top three slots? Even a roadmap for personal entrepreneurship and career advancement is no match for the Hunger Games trilogy. Read the rest of this entry »
Bouncing Back From Fiscal Adversity
This week’s Newsday carries the story of Kathleen King, founder of Tate’s Bake Shop in Southampton, New York. Eager to expand early in the last decade she entered into a partnership that soured. Reaching a court settlement she lost the use of her name on the business, mortgaged the store that housed the bakery and put her home up for sale. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: job creation
What’s Important to New Graduates?
Are graduates of the class 2011 throwbacks? In a recent survey released by the National Association of Colleges and Employers recent graduates sought personal development and job security as the most important factors in choosing a job. The top five factors in order are
1. Opportunity for personal development
2. Job security
3. Good insurance benefits
4. Friendly co-workers
5. High starting salary
Opportunities for advancement aren’t a consideration.
All of which asks the question will the aftermath of the recession may have a lasting effect on how young adults view their careers?
Tags: benefits, friendly co-workers, high starting salary, job security, oppprtunity for personal development
Contests for Fledgling Entrepreneurs
The jobs numbers were released on Friday and showed unemployment inched up again.
With job offering few, some job seekers are turning to entrepreneurship and are entering contests. Here are two.
Daily Candy is sponsoring their Start Small Go Big Contest.
The Peter Drucker Challenge 2011 is seeking essays from entrepreneurs younger than 35.
Tags: job creation
Coming Soon–It’s a Summer of Movies about Work
During an evening at the movies during the summer a viewer doesn’t expect to pulled back into the office. Yet that’s exactly what appears to be happening at the mult-plex this summer. With the unemployment rate still hovering around 9%, the big screen is the place where we can see work relationships unfold. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: career transitions
Choosing a College Major with a Career in Mind
Last week a report entitled What’s It Worth The Economic Value of College Majors was released by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and made a big splash, covered by Time Magazine and The New York Times among others. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: career transitions, Center on Education and the Workforce, college graduates, college students, Michigan State University, Northeastern University
Pay Gap Persists for Female Undergraduates and MBA’s
It’s graduation season. And those lucky graduates who have landed jobs, may have some disappointing news if they are female. The wage gap is alive and well. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: college graduates, difference in lifetime earnings, employee attitudes, gender parity, M.B.A. first jobs, pay equity
What’s Ahead for Summer Employment
With the jobs numbers due out on Friday, once again attention is turning to the youngest entrants into the labor market, low income young adults between 16-24. Tomorrow Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis will be speaking about the importance of summer jobs for young people as part of the Summer Jobs USA: Make the Commitment! Summer Jobs USA: Make the Commitment! initiative. The department’s goal is 100,000 jobs this summer.
That’s not a lot when you consider that within the next few weeks, as strains of Pomp and Circumstance are heard on college campuses nationwide, 1.7 college graduates will receive their diplomas, toss their mortarboards into the air and begin to flood the job market.
We’ll be following what to expect from a job market that has been inhospitable to these groups for the last few years.
Tags: career choice, college graduates, hiring
The Benefits of an Unexpected Career
Right out of graduate school, journalism still a gleam in my eye, another recession prompted an early career detour into retailing. After a six month stretch while I finished my thesis, unexpectedly I became what generations had known as a floor walker. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: consumer spending, low wages, retailing, survivor jobs
Criteria for Joining A Corporate Board
I recently interviewed Constantine Alexandrakis a search consultant at Russell Reynolds Associates in Chicago, who also has responsibility for corporate officer searches.
He’s noticed a gradual shift upwards in the last decade of the percentage of women on the boards of the S&P 500 ( a different number than David Matsa used) from 12% to approximately 16% now.
Asked why the number isn’t higher, and he gives a tutorial on how a hypothetical board search considers specific skills for an open board position. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: board of directors, executive search, management and leadership skills, women on corporate boards
