Archive for 'Career' Category
The Most Prestigious Jobs in America
12 August 2006Harris, a polling agency, does a survey each year to find out what are the most respected jobs in America. They ask Americans how much prestige they think a job has. Somewhat suprisingly, most of the jobs you’d expect aren’t up there. Americans respect jobs that don’t make money a lot more than jobs that [...]
Can getting a tattoo hurt your career?
12 August 2006CareerJournal has an article on the potential downsides of tattoos in the workplace. They point out that it’s increasingly common:
About one in four people have tattoos and 14% have body piercings, according to a study of 500 people published in the June 7 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Tattooing was [...]
What are the highest paying jobs in the U.S.?
6 August 2006If you’re young and still deciding on a career, or thinking about shifting fields, this is a key piece of information for you to know. And Monster.com has gone through some government data to figure it out.
Not suprisingly, doctors of various kinds make the most money on average. Surgeons top the list with an average [...]
Getting a New Job When You’re an Older Worker
6 August 2006This is one of the emerging difficulties in the U.S. economy over the past few years. It didn’t used to be an issue – U.S. employers were often in the manufacturing sector and would keep workers until they were 65 with no complaints. Today, you don’t have the same job security, and to make things [...]
Watch What You Put on the Internet: Myspace Could Cost You A Job
4 August 2006What does Myspace have to do with personal finance? It turns out, plenty – employers are starting to perform Google searches of people who are prospective job applicants. And what you put on the Internet will come up in relation to your name, especially if you’ve got a unique one. CNN notes that colleges are [...]
What’s the highest paying college major?
23 July 2006That’s what CNN Money took a look at recently in this article. CNN compared the different majors to see what the average starting salaries were, and which ones had the biggest gains. Not suprisingly, all starting salaries were not equal, as I wrote about here. The lowest paying degrees? Traditional liberal arts degrees such as [...]
What’s the best city to look for a job in?
22 July 2006If you’re a recent college graduate, or if you’re looking to move jobs and are willing to move locations, Forbes has just done a study on the best cities to find a job in. They looked at a number of different factors, including how hard it was to find a job, what the recent job [...]
Credit Reports Being Used in Job Hiring
19 July 2006This came to a shock to me, but it’s really pretty predictable: many employers have started using credit reports as a basis for whether or not they’re going to hire you.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/19/pf/employee_screening/index.htm
A recent survey by staffing firm Spherion found that 79 percent of companies said they conduct background checks on some or all job candidates, 50 [...]
Can you really get a job with any college major?
16 July 2006That’s the thesis of an article here on CareerBuilder. The article argues:
“Don’t worry. The biggest secret in career development is that you can get a job with any major, according to Donald Asher, career consultant and author of “How To Get Any Job With Any Major” (Ten Speed Press). Asher says that even though all [...]