November 19, 2007 – 2:56 pm
You know Web 2.0 is officially mainstream (read: old) when large, stodgy, non-tech corporations begin requiring their employees to blog and to spend time on the clock shoring up their MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook profiles and friend-fetching. Well, it’s finally happened.
Employers large and small are realizing the value, influence and reach of Web 2.0 apps [...]
November 16, 2007 – 7:07 pm
It’s time for another meeting of the CareersThatDontSuck Career Changers’ Group. We’ll be meeting December 12, 2007 in downtown San Francisco.
The focus of this month’s Careers That Don’t Suck Career Changers’ Group meetup presentation is “Strengths: Career Levers for Career Changers” is all about leveraging your strengths to build careers that don’t suck.
At this [...]
November 15, 2007 – 2:02 pm
In this month’s issue of HR Magazine, a trade magazine for human resources professionals, you’ll find the Society of Human Resources Management’s (SHRM’s) annual HR Compensation Survey results. Being an HR professional myself, I look forward to seeing what employers’ think our skills and hard work are worth. Of course, surveys are only [...]
November 14, 2007 – 7:37 pm
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released the findings of its Corporate Equality Index, a survey designed to determine the how well gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors are treated by Fortune 1000 employers.
The HRC invited Fortune 1000 companies to participate in the survey; 519 participated and 195 scored 100 on a [...]
November 14, 2007 – 4:29 pm
BusinessWeek’s “2007 Best MBA Programs” list was published yesterday. The list included the top full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs, and open enrollment executive education programs in the U.S. Of greatest interest to me is always the part-time MBA programs. These are the programs specifically designed for career advancers, and job and [...]
November 13, 2007 – 7:28 pm
Considering working abroad? Have you considered the cost of housing in the most desirable foreign markets? Do. You’ll be surprised, and not in a good, it’s-my-birthday sort of way. Here’s the run down.
MONTHLY RENT FOR LUXURY TWO-BEDROOM UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS
Hong Kong—————————$6,398
Tokyo————————$4,105
Moscow——————–$4,000
New York——————$4,000
London—————–$3,889
Beijing—————$2,840
Paris————–$2,634
Rome———–$2,042
Sydney——-$2,037
Johannesburg-$952
(Source: Mercer)
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November 13, 2007 – 7:07 pm
According to The Corporate Library, a pay gap persists for men and women in Corporate Director positions.
Median Annual Compensation for Corporate Directors
Women O+                Men O->
$120,000                    [...]
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