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Being an Engineer in the Age of High Tech Innovation – Be Social & Target Your Niche
Sometimes a back to basics approach on your job search is not the often obvious as it was for gen X. Today’s generation have far more resources online that was once unthinkable. But with unlimited avenues comes a need for precision. Navigate your niche. Fans of the television show The Big Bang Theory know the [...]
Job Contraction Globally Creates Work Experience Catch 22 for Graduates
Engineering undergraduates demand work experience A common refrain from Graduates seeking careers in Engineering? “It’s not fair!” Engineering undergraduates demand more work experience, graduate schemes and graduate training, however throughout Europe and The United States, the opportunity to gain work experience through graduate jobs, i.e. internships has contracted along a similar trajectory as experienced, senior [...]
The Face of Occupy Wall Street You Don’t See on The News. Ordinary Americans?
The repeating mantra is group think, not democracy, and collectivism isn’t freedom, is it? You can’t create jobs without a market … and the list and the fallacies go on … but the press isn’t covering it. Why?
It’s All About Someone Else’s Benjamins, Right?
The anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street protesters had the nerve to ask James for investment capital. They wanted funding for the “Constitutional World Federation” they are planning. Another protester goes into detail about how Almagamated Bank is funding the Occupy Wall Street anti-banker protests. They’re all for capitalism, but only if it benefits them. James O’Keefe [...]
WSJ: 103,000 vs. 1.1 Million – A tale of September Jobs Reports, 28 years Apart
Wall Street Journal Opinion Page Yesterday’s September jobs report was a welcome surprise, a signal that another recession may be averted. With 103,000 new jobs in the month and an upward revision of 99,000 for July and August, the jobs picture looks less bleak than it did a month ago. More Americans also started looking [...]
“Young Guns” Talk Job Creation at Facebook HDQ
Rick Santelli Slams CNBC Panelists for Spinning Jobs Report
Jobs, Economy, Unemployment
Layoff Secrets You Need to Know
Layoff Secrets You Need to Know by Maria Hanson, LiveCareer In an ideal world, layoff decisions are made in a systematic, objective way. Review committees (or, in smaller companies, managers) look at qualities like employee performance, skill set, and tenure, as well as whether or not a position is really necessary. But layoff decisions are [...]
Pass It Forward – Spread the Job Seeker Experience Survey
The Link: http://bit.ly/d78aSW Gerry Crispin alerted me to the work of an Intern to Shaker Consulting Group in Cleveland, Ohio a few weeks ago. Joe Murphy, a principal of that firm. Shaker Consulting Group developed an excellent survey of 29 questions that delves into the details of what a candidate might reasonably ‘expect’ from an [...]
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