Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ Career Development
1More

How Do You Learn to Edit Yourself? - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views

  •  
    "In the writing process, there is perhaps nothing harder than reading one's own work with a critical eye."
1More

Engineering, Computer Science Pay More Than Liberal Arts - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "The starting pay of certain liberal arts majors generally clocks in well below that of graduates in engineering fields, according to a Wall Street Journal study."
1More

Landing Clients Is Hit or Miss - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "Last fall, Carter W. Schimpff made personal visits to more than a dozen local businesses in Fort Worth, Texas, in hopes of recruiting them as clients for his start-up, Garraty Group Marketing. But the effort didn't produce any leads."
1More

10 Things Recruiters Won't Tell You - WSJ.com - 2 views

  •  
    "10 Things Recruiters Won't Tell You "
1More

Credit Checks on Job Seekers Draw Scrutiny - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "Checking the credit histories of job applicants-a common practice among employers-is coming under fire."
1More

How to Write a Resignation Letter - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "What should I include in my resignation letter?"
1More

Why Companies Keep Pay a Secret - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "If "Jackass 3D" is anything like prior triumphs in the franchise, its band of raunchy, anarchic daredevils will make high art of low humor and leave no mishap private - especially if it involves someone's privates. But just try to get Johnny Knoxville and his gang to talk about how much each is paid. In America, money is the last conversational taboo."
1More

Employment in New York State - PDF - September 2010 - 0 views

  •  
    Employment in New York State - PDF - September 2010
1More

Q&A: How the Economy Is Affecting Community Colleges - Real Time Economics - WSJ - 0 views

  •  
    "Excerpts from an interview by Wall Street Journal Capital columnist David Wessel with Gail Mellow, who has been president of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y. for 10 years. The college, part of the City University of New York, has 13,500 credit and 30,000 non-credit students. (Read the related column.)"
1More

Recession-Swelled Rolls Test Community Colleges - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "Community colleges get their few moments in the White House limelight next week when President Barack Obama and the vice president's wife, Jill Biden, convene a community-college summit. It's another step toward giving the institutions, the Rodney Dangerfields of higher education, a bit more of the respect they deserve."
1More

Big-name companies to help colleges train workers - 0 views

  •  
    "As the White House stages a first-of-its-kind community college summit Tuesday, the Obama administration is proposing that stronger partnerships between two-year public colleges and big-name U.S. employers such as McDonald's and The Gap will help better match workers with jobs during the economic recovery and beyond."
1More

Obama Touts Community Colleges' Benefits - US News and World Report - 0 views

  •  
    "Community colleges are the "unsung heroes" of the American education system, President Obama said during a White House summit on community colleges on Tuesday-the first time such institutions have received such recognition at the presidential level, those involved in the event say-and they should play a critical role in achieving the administration's goal of leading the world in college graduation rates by 2020. "
1More

Employers Slow to Fill Job Openings - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "Among the explanations for the stubbornly high U.S. unemployment rate, factors such as housing troubles and extended unemployment benefits have played a leading role. Increasingly, though, economists and job seekers are identifying another problem: Employers are being pickier, or not trying as hard as they usually do to fill the openings they have."
1More

Dissatisfaction Among Psychology Majors - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "Psychology majors might want to put themselves on the couch. Only 26% of psychology majors are "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their career paths, the lowest in a sampling of popular majors included in a Wall Street Journal study. The psychology majors the survey captured had a satisfaction rate 14 percentage points lower than the next lowest majors, economics and environmental engineering."
1More

Getting Ahead as a 'High-Potential' Manager - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "When Audrey Kane joined TGI Friday's U.S. division in 2005, the middle manager learned she might gain a vice presidency someday. She became a regional VP of the restaurant chain in August 2009 - a year sooner than she expected. Ms. Kane believes her participation in an outside training program hastened her promotion because she improved her internal negotiation and networking skills. "
1More

September Issue of LIVE Wire - PDF - 0 views

  •  
    Check out my article entitled, Introducing LaGuardia eCareer! in the September 2010 issue of LIVE WIRE. A LaGuardia Community College CUNY publication.
1More

MBA Students Go Directly From College to Business School - WSJ.com - 0 views

  •  
    "At 29, Wes Swank has several friends entering full-time M.B.A. programs. Mr. Swank, a managing director at the hedge fund Hayman Advisors LP in Dallas, isn't joining them. He earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business at age 24, matriculating just a few months after completing his undergraduate studies."
1More

NYC Workforce Weekly October 10th, 2010 - PDF - 0 views

  •  
    NYC Workforce Weekly October 10th, 2010 - PDF
1More

College Grads Expand Lead in Job Security - WSJ.com - 1 views

  •  
    "GARY, Ind.-Fifteen years after high school, the working lives of Tremell Sinclair and Phyllis Sellars have evolved very differently, largely because of a single decision. Ms. Sellars went to college; Mr. Sinclair didn't."
1More

There Is an 'I' in Team - Hire Education - WSJ - 0 views

  •  
    "Team projects always follow similar patterns: first learning who you'll be working with, the icebreaker session, the brainstorming and planning, and finally implementation. Of course, most of the time you're procrastinating or debating with your team members, but eventually you construct a final product. The goal of working in a team is learning and evolving, while achieving something with other people."
« First ‹ Previous 241 - 260 of 569 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page