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Generation Y let down by schools and managers
The recession is not the only disadvantage facing young people entering or trying to get ahead in the jobs' market. They are also being badly let down by the school system and by entrenched negative stereotypes within the media and the boardroom.
Are computers transforming humanity?
Now you can sit in any airport and hear all the grisly details about a divorce or something like that. I don't know if the convenience overrides privacy or people don't care about the other people around them, but certainly what we let hang out there has changed.
Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less
A recent tweet by one would-be Cisco employee proves that when it comes to placing a permanent black mark on your resume via the Internet, Twitter is now the tool of choice. To illustrate, here’s the tweet the now Web-infamous "theconnor" shared with the world:
Markell urges drastic action on budget
In the first year, the sports lottery would generate a modest $55 million in additional revenue. But coupled with corporate and income-tax increases, program and benefit cuts, and an across-the-board payroll reduction of 8 percent, Markell told lawmakers, his plan would balance next year's budget despite a $751 million revenue hole and an economy that worsens by the day.
Clash of the generations: IT vets and fresh talent scramble for the same jobs
Throughout busy job fairs, crowded boardrooms and hectic IT departments across the U.S., a battle royal is brewing between aging baby boomers and fresh-faced millennials -- two distinct generations with differing work styles, conflicting cultures and disparate skill sets.
Discouraging Days for Jobseekers
With state budgets crippled, endowments declining, and requests for financial aid mounting, universities and colleges around the United States have sharply curtailed faculty hiring
How to Manage Geeks
The main reason IT people are unhappy at work is bad relations with management, often because geeks and managers have fundamentally different personalities, professional backgrounds and ambitions.
Layoffs Send People and Knowledge Packing
All of these bits of knowledge add up to a vast amount of information that a healthy business requires. But the vast majority of companies do a poor job of gathering this information in a systematic way. When people leave, either by choice or not, what inevitably happens is that the company and its future employees are forced to relearn it all through trial and error. The cycle repeats over and over again.
Generation Y job-seekers hit hard
Older workers seem to have a leg up on the youngsters. It’s a harsh reality that happens in almost any downturn, economists and labor experts say, but this one has been particularly hard on younger workers because many were blindsided.
Figuring Autoworkers’ Pay
An histogram showing the labor cost gap between Ford and Japanese automakers in America.
You're Fired!
Getting fired is bad enough, but some companies are finding new ways to be cruel and impersonal when they downsize. Call them slayoffs.
Social networking sites dos and don'ts
Twenty-two percent of employers say they use social networking sites when evaluating job candidates, and an additional 9 percent intend to do the same soon. Yet, only 16 percent of workers with social networking profiles have modified their pages with potential employers in mind.
Teaching Without a Script - Lesson Plans Blog
If I hadn’t been allowed to be an artist in the classroom, if my curriculum had been some stranger’s standardized script, these girls may not have found their voices. To educate like this, a teacher shouldn’t have to break the rules. Experiences like this should be the rule of any curriculum meant to engage this generation. If we want to convince dynamic, young educators to choose the inner city as the place to master their craft — we’ve got to remember that the best are artists.
Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
The non-routine problems offer the opportunity to create competitive advantage, and solving those problems requires creative thought and tenacity.
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