Career Change
Is The MBA and Other Graduate School Degrees Worth It?
(Thanks to Patti Connor for revisiting this topic and writing this guest post.) In recent years, it has become difficult to defend the costs of graduate school degrees, specifically the…
5 Things Employers Can Do To Simplify (and Improve) Recruiting
With the national unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent, so many people are looking for work that a resu-mess has been created that floods inboxes and cripples applicant processing…
New Video: How To Use Social Media for Job Search and Recruitment
For the second straight year, I had the privilege and pleasure of being a panelist at the Harrisburg University Social Media Summit (September 14, 2011). Like last year, the event…
Is Poor Job Retraining Responsible for High Unemployment?
It’s a difficult concept to grasp — that at a time of massive unemployment, good paying jobs remain unfilled…
Advice for CEOs: Work Your Strengths, Know Your Weakness
Working your strengths might be a good strategy for finding the right career, but ignoring your executive skill weakness can humble and tumble giants…
Only 20 Percent of Workers Qualify for High Demand Jobs
Despite prolonged high unemployment, employers are struggling to find qualified skilled workers? How is this possible?
“Everyone has been caught flatfooted,” according to author/human capital expert Edward Gordon… “we…
What’s the “Next Big Thing” in the Job Market?
forecasting the fastest growing occupations over 10 years has proven to be an inexact science. Many job seekers who took the advice of career planners have found themselves stuck in…
High Energy Employees: Prey for Poaching?
A recent study has called at-risk employees the “neglected warriors.”It’s the poaching of these employees that employers need to fear the most…
Unemployment to Remain High: Abundance of Labor, Poverty of Talent
For the unemployed, the road back to employment seems to be getting longer and longer. Worse it seems to be filled with bumps that will never end…
Gray Ceiling Casts Shadow on Millennials
Slow job growth and delayed Baby Boomer retirement is erecting what I’ve called the “gray ceiling,” the inability of the next generation of employees (Generation X) to move up…