Dissatisfied at Work? Is it Your Age?
If you are dissatisfied at work, it could be your age. In a study released this week by the Sloan Center on Aging and Work entitled Generations of Talent Study trains a spotlight on the effects of country, age and career stage among employees worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »
The Benefits of a Paid Internship
Recently the National Association of Colleges and Employers released a study about paid internships that showed prior paid internships resulted in higher job search success and higher salaries when a former intern was hired. The study made no similar correlation between unpaid internships, job placement and starting salary.
As a story in Inside Higher Ed discussed there is significant controversy around unpaid internships, who they benefit and to what extent a subject also discussed by Ross Perlin in his book Intern Nation.
As the spring internship application season heats up, students need to carefully weigh their aspirations and personal circumstances before commiting themselves to a semester long internship. And once the semester starts school administrators need to make sure their students are being treated professionally.
Tags: Inside Higher Ed, Intern Nation, National Association of Colleges and Employers, paid internships, student advising, unpaid internships
The Big Payout
Eric Dash has an intriguing story in The New York Times today Outsize Severance Continues for Executives Even After Failed Tenures. Read the rest of this entry »
Is the Job Interview Overrated?
Tags: board of directors, career transitions, Ebay, female executives, Hewlett-Packard, hiring, interviewing, James B. Stewart, Leo Apotheker, management, Meg Whitman, Michael Useem, msnbc.com, phone interviews, The New York Times, University of Pennsylvania
What kind of week is it for Women Executives?
What kind of week has it been so far for women executives? It has been decidedly mixed. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: All Things D, Bank of America, career transitions, Carol Bartz, female executives, Jill Abramson, management, New York Times, Sallie Krawcheck, severance, Susan Chira, Yahoo
Are You a Free Agent? It May Depend on Your Age
Are you a free agent? Kelly Services recently asked that question of adults in the United Staes. Over 40% of employed adults now consider themselves free agents a larger percentage than before the financial meltdown of 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Do Colleagues Matter?
Meredith Viera left the Today Show with a great deal of fanfare today. She is leaving to have a better work/life balance with no more 2:30 a.m. reveilles. There was the obligatory reel of highlights from her five years on the show. My personal favorite was a bake-off with Martha Stewart when Matt Lauer tossed a ribbon into the air and Meredith caught it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Al Roker, colleagues, cooperation, employee attitudes, Martha Stewart, Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera, Today Show, work-life balance
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
