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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Big Blue Offers Extremely Rare Internship Opportunity

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 [...]

All I Want for Christmas is my Broker’s Bonus

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 [...]

Beauty School Dropouts No Longer: Salon Owners Go To Business School

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 [...]

Blue’s Not So Bad: Tour the World as Part of The Blue Man Group

So you want to be a star, huh? Well, here’s a genuine opportunity to be part of a hit show that tours the World. The Blue Man Group, a high-energy combo of lights, pyrotechnics, dance, music, acting, magic, comedy, and, of course, blue paint, is currently recruiting Blue Men and Women. If you [...]

Careers Are Recyclable Too

Recycling is a hot industry. Every time you open a business magazine or listen to a political campaign ad, you read or hear about a new eco-friendly business or initiative to take something used and make it new again or something natural and use it for our unnatural transportation, lighting, heating or fashion needs. [...]

New Program Rewards Teachers in Toughest Schools

You’ve probably heard it a million times.  Teachers are the most under-appreciated and over-worked souls among us.  It’s still the truth.  However, a new program promises to change this for the most underserved, and arguably most deserving, of teachers, those who work in high-poverty, high-needs schools.  The Rodel Charitable Foundation of Arizona’s Promising Student Teachers [...]

Get Into the Game: Start A Career in Sports

Few industries are as sexy as the sports industry. In fact, I can think of only one that might rival the sports industry in sex appeal–Entertainment. Of course now they are practically synonymous.
Just like the entertainment industry, breaking into the sports industry is tough to do, especially if you want to be in [...]