Social Work: Employers Implore Workers to Work Web 2.0
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 [...]
Career Changers’ Networking Group: December Meeting-Dec. 12, 2007
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 [...]
HR: In Demand, In Need of Improvement
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 samplings of [...]
Best Companies for GLBT Workers
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 [...]
The Career Changers’ MBA
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 career changers. HOW [...]
Considering Working Abroad? Consider This.
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) Hearthis [...]
The Gender Gap Goes On!
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+Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Men O-> $120,000 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â $104,375 Hearthis post
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