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Professional image consultant Lauren Solomon discusses how to compile your business wardrobe and being able to dress for success even on a tight budget.
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Graduation time is here, and after the celebrations and break from the books come to an end, recent grads are faced with having to land their first job.
According to new research from Career Builder, college graduates will be in the cat-bird seat when searching for their first job. In a recent CB Campus blog post, it was revealed that 42 percent of companies will up their starting salaries for recent grads, and 79 percent of hiring managers plan to hire recent college graduates, an increase from 70 percent just last year.
The Career Builder post points out some of the tried and true tips of job seeking preparation tips such as conducting in-depth company research, showing enthusiasm and sharing relevant and related experience outside of just internships.
But, competition will be stiff and the amount of jobs available in your field could be slight, so you will have to really stand out from the crowd. You will make headway by networking at career fairs or at industry organizations. Remember to ask those you meet questions about their company and the company’s culture. Also, offer a resume to your new contact and remember to ask them for a business card. Even if they are not a hiring manager, you can at least have a point of contact inside the company for follow up.
Also, utilize some of your college friends and contacts to help identify job opportunities. Some are hired just prior to graduation, so if you know former classmates who have received job offers and were hired before you, ask them if there are other open positions that you qualify for, and see if they can help get your foot in the door. Many companies offer employees referral bonuses. So knowing a friend or classmate can not only help you find a job, it could pay off for them as well!
Congratulations class of 2007, and best of luck in career world!
Originally
from Spherion Career Blog - The Big Time
by Steve Wajda
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These questions are consistently posed by the media and by society as a whole. And while no one states it directly, we mothers usually hear an unqualified “yes” in response. Just one month ago, yet another study was released in which the findings were presented as suggesting that day care kids were worse off. Evidently, a small percentage of these children were more disruptive in class than at-home kids. Never mind that the day care kids had better vocabularies. Never mind that the debate moved immediately to the question of whether moms should be staying home rather than whether dads should instead. We working moms were failing our kids. Oh, to go back to the days when Mom stayed home and Dad earned the cash.
The truth is, though, that we mothers are harshest on ourselves. A Pew Research Center study released Wednesday supports that view. More than half of Americans (56 percent) say that mothers are doing a worse job today than 20 or 30 years ago. By comparison, 47 percent of Americans say fathers are doing a worse job than fathers did 20 or 30 years ago. More telling yet, most women say that today’s fathers are now doing a better, or at least as good a job, as fathers did 20 or 30 years ago. But a full 54 percent of women say today’s mothers are doing a worse job when compared with mothers 20 or 30 years ago. And while no distinction is made between employed and nonemployed mothers, the overall message is that moms are not performing well.
I’d like to suggest that this blog post be the last discussion of this matter. The fact is that women and mothers now work outside the home — in fact more than three-quarters of mothers with children under 18 do. Even more to the point, moms and dads are managing to spend more time with their kids.
A recent study by The Council on Contemporary Families supports that view. The study actually found today’s youth are doing better than their parents and grandparents and that married mothers increased their time doing childcare by 21 percent (and fathers have more than doubled their time (from 2.6 to 6.5 hours per week).
What’s been sacrificed as a result? Time Mom and Dad spend on themselves.
Originally
from The Monster Blog
by Elizabeth
on May 4, 2007, 10:16PM
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Forget about Gen Y/Millennials for a second, how about retaining the older generations?
Unfortunately, we can’t all work for a dot com where younger workers and older workers can enter the industry on essentially the same footing. There are many industries where the wealth of experience an older person brings to a company actually does make a real significant difference. And with early retirement being offered in many of those industries (and early retirement being a voluntary option), the time to strengthen your retention strategy is now. Canada focus says:
The study showed mature, large companies to be at greatest risk from the demographic shift, due to their hiring history - rapid growth through the 1970s, followed by downsizing in the ’90s that left them with few mid-career employees today. Leadership, sales and technical positions will be the hardest to fill.
The cost of losing older workers is high. Replacing an experienced worker can cost 50 per cent or more of their annual salary and the cost is higher in jobs requiring specialized skills, advanced training or extensive experience - all more likely in 50-plus employees.
Employers often complain the generation now entering the workforce lack core competencies - which can be counterbalanced by older employees. Many 50-plus workers have experience, dedication, focus, stability and enhanced knowledge.
So not only are people more interested in the older generation, they suddenly find worth (and aren’t anchor weight) in the corporations of today. Couple this with the fact that older workers need some serious help in the job hunt and there is opportunity screaming all over it. Some have taken advantage of this opportunity, will your company?
Originally
from YourHRGuy.com
by Your HR Guy
on May 7, 2007, 11:38AM
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Want to up your happiness and satisfaction with your career, and
life in general? How about a career focused on helping people?
According to a new study
out of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of
Chicago, “workers who spend their days improving the lives of others
are among the most satisfied in the country.”
The new
report links people’s jobs to how satisfied they are in their careers
as well as to their general happiness. “Work…is one’s main source of
social standing, helps to define who a person is, and affects one’s
health both physically and mentally,” wrote Tom W. Smith, director of
the General Social Survey (GSS) at the University-affiliated National
Opinion Research Center, in the report.“We found that occupations that involved a high degree of prestige,
particularly those involving caring for others…were the highest in job
satisfaction,” Smith said in a telephone interview. Clergy ranked the
highest, with 87.2 percent saying they were “very satisfied” in their
careers. Firefighters (80.1 percent) and physical therapists (78.1
percent) were close runners-up. Rounding out the top 10 were education
administrators, painters and sculptors, teachers, authors,
psychologists, special education instructors, and operating engineers.
The results are drawn from over 27,000 face to face interviews with people across the US done between 1988 to 2006.
–
Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst (sm)
Time for a career change? Launch it with…
The Occupational Adventure Guide:
A Travel Guide to the Career of Your Dreams
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from The Occupational Adventure (sm)
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on May 1, 2007, 10:59PM
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