Liz Wolgemuth, On Thursday April 15, 2010, 12:24 pm A college degree was once a kind of insurance against high tides of unemployment, but this downturn took plenty of white collar, degree-necessary jobs with it. What’s more, it’s no longer a given that an advanced degree will launch you into the upper echelon of...
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Archive for April, 2010
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Should you get married?
What does that question have to do with your job or me giving you career advice? Well, it is much more fundamental than one might think. Most of us are raised with the idea that we will find someone, fall in love, get married and raise a family. In the U.S., that is a...
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Criminals Prey on the Unemployed
BUSINESSAPRIL 12, 2010. By SIOBHAN GORMAN, The Wall St Journal Out of work for six months, Mary Long spent hours each day surfing the Web. She found a job listing this fall for a logistics manager that paid $65,000 a year and fired off her resume. But the company, Advanta Transportation Network LLC, appears...
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UPS Thinks Out of the Box on Driver Training
by Jennifer Levitz at the Wall Street Journal Vexed that some 30% of driver candidates flunk its traditional training, United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) is moving beyond the classroom to ready its rookies for the road. In the place of books and lectures are videogames, a contraption that simulates walking on ice and an...
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Seth Godin on standing out
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Future Careers: What’s Hot, What’s Not
Gina Pogol, FindtheRightSchool.com, Yahoo! HotJobs Preparing for a career is a serious business, and the wrong choice can be costly. You don’t want to graduate after several years’ work only to find that your industry has relocated to China. Technology has affected labor markets in two ways: First, companies jumped on labor-saving devices and...
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Federal Government Jobs Far Outpace Private Sector Counterparts in Pay, Benefits
The following article is written as a critique of the growth of the federal government, and depending on your political point of view, you may think so too. But, if you are looking for a job, a career as a civil service employee can be a very rewarding one. Check it out and tell...
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