Category Archives: careerThere are still a few good jobs to be had. Here’s the latest installment.
StarTek will add another 100 jobs at its call center in Greeley, CO to help out one of its largest global telecommunications clients.
First Solar of Perrysburg, OH, an installer of solar panels, will add at least 134 jobs and double the size [...]
Here’s the rest of BusinessWeek’s BW50 Best Performing Companies. Last time I focused on jobs with companies ranked #1-#25. Truthfully, it was #1-#26. I excluded BJ Services (#8) because their company website listed no current job vacancies. That bumped #26 (Varian Medical Systems) into #25 on my list and left me with only 24 companies [...]
Careersthatdontsuck.com presents “The Resume Autopsy”, a 2-hour intensive workshop designed to help attendees rewrite, and in some cases, resuscitate their resumes.
Why this workshop?
The second biggest complaint among job-seekers is “I send my resume and no one calls or writes me back” (The biggest complaint is that they’re still haven’t found a job). This workshop will [...]
On to my next session. Stephen O’Grady is talking about “Open Source Business Models”. Basically, we’ve learned that money is not bad and open source folks would like some.
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BusinessWeek recently published their BW50, an annual list of the best performing companies (based on growth and return on equity). The list is based on three years of stats and a long list of other key criteria.
These are the companies that long-term investors are holding on to, that analysts are betting will persevere through this [...]
Those wily hedge fund managers are up to their old tricks–giving us what we want and making megabucks in the process. Their newest product is a hot, hard-to-get, one. It’s business loans.
Hedge funds are offering asset-based loans to a select few business owners. In exchange for sizable loans with short repayment periods (usually less than [...]
Off-shoring has gone uptown, or downturn, depending on where your white-glove financial institutions are. There is great concern at the lower rungs of the employment ladder about jobs being sent overseas. Now, that concern has taken the elevator a few floors up to the junior management suites.
With Wall Street and other major financial [...]
If you had taken advantage of the App Store opportunity alert I posted (Read “The iPhone Opportunity”), you’d be holding a nice chunk of change right about now. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple’s App Store earned $30M in revenue in its first month of operation.
For every dollar earned from the sale of an [...]
75% of corporate jobs require a college degree. Only 27% of Americans have a college degree.
(Source: WorldatWork)
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In a very timely decision, the California Supreme Court just granted all formerly-employed (and future unemployed) Californians permission to steal clients and work from their former employers.
California employers already had a tougher time enforcing non-compete agreements than employers in any other state, but the California Supreme Court just made it darn near impossible.
In a case [...]
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