Five Career-Building Jobs for Business School Grads
Check out the whole article at knol.google.com, but here’s a quick summary:
Today’s business school grads can look forward to plenty of challenging career opportunities. With the help of a business school career counselor, we identify five top entry level jobs and discuss what the next decade will hold for new business graduates.
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Chin Up, or at Least Keep Your Head Above Water: Staying Positive and Finding Employment During Recession
By Jennifer Boutell, Careers.Org Contributing Editor
Every morning, I look through my inbox to find more depressing news about the economy. Employment numbers just keep getting worse and it seems impossible these days to avoid the bad news.
But - as “The Renegade Writer” points out - no one wants to pay a writer who is [...]
Don’t Give Up on That Technical Degree: The US Still Leads the World In Science and Technology
Seems like every time we turn on the television news or talk radio,
someone is pontificating about the decline of the United States as a
technological superpower. According to a study released this week by RAND Corporation, this just isn’t the case. RAND recommends allowing more foreign workers to enter the United States on H1-B [...]
Americans prefer technical colleges to community colleges
By Amy Rolph on SeattlePI.com
Career and technical colleges are better at preparing students for the work force than community colleges, said about 45 percent of respondents in a recently released survey.
Ray Victoria assembles a heating system during a class at Bellingham Technical College. (AP Photo)
The survey results were released today by [...]
Remember : Your Resume Speaks for You
Think of a résumé as the most important tool you have to sell yourself to future employers. It outlines your skills and experiences so an employer can see, at a glance, what you could bring that organization. A résumé has one goal: to get your foot in the door! A résumé makes an instant [...]
5 Job Hunting Tips
Network! - Think of the people you know - relatives, friends, professors, classmates, co-workers at summer jobs, and others. Make more of an effort to meet with people, and use these conversations to ask their advice, to make them aware of your job search, to learn more about their jobs or their organizations, and [...]
Which College?
What Matters to You?
What’s important to you may not necessarily be what’s important to your best friend, siblings or parents. You’ve got to find the college that’s the best fit for you. The happier you are at the college you choose, the more likely you’ll be to succeed and complete your degree. Consider:
Location
· Geographically, where [...]
Career or Academic Education - Does it Matter?
Not only is career and technical education nothing to laugh at, it’s a way to replace the unrealistic "college for all" bias of public schooling with a greater degree of practical preparation for lucrative and rewarding careers in fields like nursing, desktop publishing, computer networking and the building trades.
So says a report called "Schools [...]
Book Review : Career Education: History and Future
Book Review by Julia Panke Makela
Career Education: History and Future by Kenneth B. Hoyt, 200 pages, 2005, National Career Development Association.
Within Career Education: History and Future, Kenneth B. Hoyt shares his extensive knowledge derived from over five decades of professional efforts to improve connections between education and work. His ten years of experience serving as [...]
Class of 2007 Finds Excellent Job Market
There’s good news about the job market for the college Class of 2007, according to a new report. The Job Outlook 2007 Spring Update, produced by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), shows that employers plan to hire nearly 20 percent more new college graduates in 2006-07 than they did in 2005-06. Overall, [...]