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
Are You Passing on Vacation This Year?
As the Memorial Day weekend approaches, with gasoline still hovering around $4.00 a gallon and millions still out of work, now news comes that many are going to forego vacation this year. Careerbuilder has released a survey that says upwards of 25% of American workers say they can’t afford a vacation this year and more than an additional 10% claim they don’t have the time to take one.
What are your plans?
Tags: career decision, vacation
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
Nice Girls …the Sequel
Early in the last decade Dr. Lois P. Frankel wrote Nince Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. The book touched a nerve, became an international best seller and was translated into 25 languages. Now Dr. Frankel is back with a co-author, Carol Frohlinger who is an attorney and cofounder of Negotiating Women, Inc., whose mission is to help women negotiate more confidently. The title of their new book is Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It. Read the rest of this entry »
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
You Can’t Fire Everyone by Hank Gilman
Hank Gilman, the Deputy Managing Editor of Fortune has come out with a new book, You Can’t Fire Everyone, a career reminisce packed with solid advice for all those who are a promoted to management and then find they need to stay ahead of the curve they didn’t know existed. It’s not just aimed at those who have reached the tippy top of management. For journalism buffs, its also offers insights on the recent transformations in the industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Equal Pay
Yesterday was Equal Pay Day which comes from the amount of time women need to work into the following year to make the equivalent men made the year before. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: college graduates, equal pay, equal pay for equal work, female executives, gender parity, Huffington Post, McKinsey and Company, Wall Street Journal, women in business
Telecommuting as an Antidote to Stress
As unemployment dips slightly and hiring continues, as reported last week stress continues to be a major factor in those whose jobs were not eliminated during the Great Recession. Low pay continues to draw attention, but so does extensive commuting as some travel further afield to seek meaningful employment. A heavier workload is also a consideration if companies are expecting employees to have greater productivity. Read the rest of this entry »
Stress on the Job
If you feel stressed at work, you are not alone. In a study released today by Everest College, (a for profit college that’s part of the Corinthian network of colleges) and conducted by Harris Interactive, more than three quarters of American workers are stressed about something related to their jobs.
What stresses us? Low pay is highest on the list at 14%, followed by commuting 11%, unreasonable workload 9% and fear of layoffs, also 9%.
Co-workers, the boss, lack of work/life balance and lack of opportunity for advancement, also hold their share of annoyance.
Wendy Cullen, vice president of employer development at Everest College says employers are becoming well aware of the need to address rising employee stress and those who don’t address it will likely suffer lower morale and productivity.
In upcoming posts we’ll see what employees can do on their own during their commutes and balancing their responsibilities to alleviate stress.
Tags: compensation, layoffs, stress, workload
