November 28, 2006 – 4:07 am
The Knight Foundation, founded by John S. Knight of Knight-Ridder newspaper fame, is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for mid-career professional journalists, the Knight Fellowship. Knight has partnered with Stanford University to provide a 9-month (September to June) residential fellowship program (live on/off campus in Palo Alto) designed to help mid-career professionals to improve the quality [...]
November 28, 2006 – 3:20 am
November 16, 2006–The New York Times and the National Association of Black Journalists launched the NYT/NABJ Leadership Academy, a leadership training program designed to help journalists who’ve been newly promoted to newsroom positions to prepare for careers in newsroom management. The program kicked off at the Times in New York with a pilot class of [...]
November 27, 2006 – 9:22 pm
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) offers a “breakthrough” opportunity for high-performing mid-career minorities working in the newspaper industry. The program, titled the James K. Batten Leadership and Career Development Program, was named for James K. Batten, the former chairman and CEO of Knight-Ridder and first NAA Diversity Committee Chair. The goals of [...]
November 26, 2006 – 5:53 am
During the good ole dot-com days you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting a computer science major. Colleges rolled out the programs in droves and routed as many students as possible through them. For a moment, computer geeks were rock stars commanding big salaries, working on sexy tech stuff and getting fat on equity.
Then came [...]
November 22, 2006 – 11:42 pm
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal hosted it’s Women Leading Business panel of top female execs, including Avon’s CEO Andrea Jung, Carol Bartz, executive chairman of the board of Autodesk, Frances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa, president of U.S. Trust, Ursula Burns, president of business group operations at Xerox and a corporate senior vice president, Nancy Peretsman, managing [...]
November 22, 2006 – 5:45 pm
India-based conglomerate RPG Group revived the good old fashioned career fair to help meet it’s growing talent needs, and to stem the tide of exits of top talent. While it may not seem revolutionary, it is very nigh that since employers have long abandoned the practice of introducing and selling the opportunities within the larger [...]
November 21, 2006 – 6:25 pm
Job Title: Food Developer
AKA: Food Product Developer, Food Concept Developer, Food Scientist, Food Technologist, Recipe Developer, Menu Development Specialist, Research & Development Chef
What is it?
A food developer is someone who dreams up ideas for new food items, then develops them into saleable products for [...]
November 20, 2006 – 3:43 am
IBM offers a rare internship opportunity through its Extreme Blue Internship. The internship, open to technical (software development/programming) and business (undergrad/MBA) students, is perhaps the closest most will come to a dream job. Interns get to work on real-world, cutting-edge projects that either end up patented and utilized in one of Big Blue’s business [...]
November 17, 2006 – 7:48 pm
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth. Not! Forget the holiday platitudes, Wall Street’s busy little elves want their big, fat, obscene bonuses for Christmas. Those enviable elves reportedly earned bonuses of $100,000 to $1 million this year, and that’s up 10-25% over last year (according to pay consultants [...]
November 14, 2006 – 7:10 pm
Forget the stereotypical beauty school student with the crazy do and the scarce brain cells. Forget the strip mall cosmetology schools and their cheap handicam-created late night ads. Serious salon owners and managers are going to Business School!
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management now opens its doors to salon owners and/or senior managers. UCLA’s Executive Salon [...]
