jobs

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…

Work Trends in 2015 Are Anything but Routine

The future of work (and life in general) is not what it used to be. Nor is the future what many of us were told it would be.    This is…

Jobs Disappearing at Accelerating Rate – Is Yours at Risk?

Nearly everyone agrees the world will look different in years to come.  For many, the future has arrived. Robots and other forms of automation are not just destroying jobs at…

15 Education Stats You Should Know

74.9 million U.S. residents are enrolled in schools – from nursery schools to colleges. 56 million students are projected to be enrolled in the nation’s elementary…

What is Happening to Blue Collar Careers?

The United States has become a nation of “non-tinkerers,” a survey shows, and it may harming the way we live and work according to manufacturers. In a…

Survey Says Students Find Schoolwork Too Easy

How can the United States continue to compete in a global economy if the entering workforce is made up of high school graduates who lack the skills they need, and…

Skilled Worker Shortages Reach Widespread but Not Evenly Distributed

If the survey of economists in a recent Associated Press Economy Survey is correct, the job market will still be unhealthy seven years (2016) after the Great Recession officially ended…

Small Business Knows Best When It Comes to Job Creation

And small business is the center of the jobs universe when it comes to creating new customers. Of the 7 billion people on Earth in 2012, 5 billion are over…

Companies Dream about Filling Cloud Computing Jobs

Cloud computing jobs increased by 9 2 percent in February 2012 in comparison to numbers from February 2011. And it was up 400 percent from the same time in 2010…

Help Wanted: Jobs for Moms or Working with Moms

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms! We thought it might be interesting to look at jobs for mothers, or jobs that require working with moms. In April…