Jun

16

Nursing industry suffering from lack of instructors

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June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

My sister works as a pediatric nurse. It’s a stressful job. She works with kids who have cancer, and that all too often ends sadly.
I know, then, how important nurses are to patients. They provide much of the important caring for patients. Doctors get the glory; nurses do most of the dirty work.
Unfortunately, many states [...]

Jun

8

Obama promises more than 600,000 new jobs

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June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The unemployment rate for the nation is now above 9 percent. That’s pretty awful. Pres. Barack Obama isn’t happy about this, either. After all, high unemployment figures are keeping the economy from recovering.
Today, Obama promised that the $787 billion stimulus plan will result in more than 600,000 new jobs this summer.
Federal agencies are expected to [...]

May

26

What are you resorting to in this down economy?

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May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I used to scoff at freelance writers who would take crummy assignments for low pay. It seemed demeaning to me. Writers are professionals, and we should be paid like it.
Well, these scoffing days are now officially over. For the last two weeks, I’ve joined the ranks of what are known as online content writers. Think [...]

Apr

30

Laid-off workers turning to community colleges

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April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment

You never know how the recession is going to impact a person or institution. For instance, community colleges. They’ve long offered programs designed to teach adults very specific job skills.
Turns out, in a recession like this one, that’s a good thing to teach.
A story in the Dallas Morning News says that enrollment among students older [...]

Feb

9

Recruiting way down at business schools

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February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I guess you can file this one in the “no kidding” file: Far fewer recruiters are hitting up business schools these days.
The Wall Street Journal recently ran this story highlighting the decline in recruiting seen by business schools this winter. According to the story, a survey by the MBA Career Services Council said that 56 [...]

Jan

5

Taking a break between high school and college, the wise choice?

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January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A growing number of high school students are electing to take a break between the end of their high school years and the beginning of their college ones.
After all, why rush into adulthood too soon? A break between high school and college can allow students the chance to explore something they might otherwise never have [...]

Dec

27

Check out this blog for an in-depth look at how tough the job market is

Posted by Dan

December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I found an interesting blog the other day that chronicles the challenge that a recent college grad is having in landing a job in the public-relations industry. The blog, PublicRelations101, shows just how tough it is out there for new college grads. The blog’s author, instead of working in the PR business, is now holding down a job at a Subway restaurant. Not surpisingly to anyone who’s worked in fast food (let me tell you about my former glory days at a Dairy Queen in Chicago), the author absolutely hates her sandwich-slinging career.

Dec

13

Not all executive M.B.A. programs are equal

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December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The editors at the Wall Street Journal recently studied these programs to determine just that. The paper ranked the top exeuctive M.B.A. programs in terms of how much money they returned on students’ investment during the first five years after these students officially earned their new degrees.

Dec

5

Too much gloom and doom on the news? There’s a reason for that

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December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Well, there’s a reason the newspapers are filled with so much bad news these days. That’s because things are bad. Really bad.

Nov

21

New M.B.A.’s to steer clear of big-finance?

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November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I wrote about the tough job market for recent college graduates. Well, let’s go one step worse: How would you like to be the proud owner of a new M.B.A., one that cost you loads of money to earn, only to enter the job market when the big financial firms are going through what may be their worst crisis?

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