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OUTLOOK NOT-SO-GOOD FOR LEGAL JOBS
Graduates of law school have little to celebrate this year when they found out last year’s class had only a 50/50 chance of landing legal jobs within 9 months of graduation. New analysis conducted by the Wall Street Journal found that only 55 percent of the Class of 2011 had full-time, long-term jobs that required a law degree. To provide con [...]
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT ACCO...
Q: Can I work accounting jobs without my CPA?
A: Many people work accounting jobs without the Certified Public Accountant designation, although employers do prefer CPAs. Also, Hudson Financial estimates that CPAs earn 5 percent more money.
Q: What accounting jobs can I get with no degree or experience?
A: Entry-level accounting jobs include S [...]
GOOD RESUMES LEAD TO SALES MANAGEMENT...
Creating a good resume that sells your qualifications is the first step to landing sales management jobs. At the top of your form, you’ll begin with your name and contact information. Next, you’ll want a catchy job title, such as “Award-Winning Sales Manager” (if you’ve won awards, that is). You can then include a few bullet points to explain [...]
NURSING JOBS GROW, BUT THERE’S A CATC...
Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce says that the number of healthcare jobs will expand by 3 million positions by 2020, increasing 30 percent to keep pace with demand. While this sounds like great news for those seeking nursing jobs, there is also a catch: the educational requirements are also increasing.
In 2010, 81 percent of [...]
HUMAN RESOURCES JOBS: EVIL OR BRILLIA...
The hit TV show “The Office” portrays a very real stereotype of individuals who land in human resources jobs. They are often viewed as “the people that no one in the company likes” – that middle-man between hiring and performance-reviewing. HR personnel are often seen as polarizing figures and it’s unclear whether these people are trustworthy [...]
SURVEY SHOWS WANING CONFIDENCE IN BAN...
OneWire recently conducted a survey asking 500 people currently working in banking jobs what advice they’d give to recent graduates. Of those surveyed, 51.5 percent said they would recommend that college students pursue banking jobs. Another 48.5 percent advised students against seeking employment in the industry, citing “lack of job stabilit [...]
HAVE CUSTOMER SERVICE JOBS GOTTEN TOO...
Harvard Business School did a study of customer service jobs and found two key human resources trends. The first is that the average employee is “drowning in complexity.” The second is that the best employees are “a much scarcer resource than management is willing to acknowledge.” In the book Uncommon Service, researchers found that HR person [...]
LOW UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THOSE IN TECHNOL...
The technology jobs sector boasts a surprisingly low unemployment rate. This month, the Federal Reserve predicted that overall unemployment would remain at or above 8 percent for the rest of 2012; but as of May, the computer and mathematics sector of technology jobs stood at an exceedingly low 3.5 percent. This low rate is down further from t [...]
AMAZON GIVES ADVICE FOR LANDING TECHN...
Amazon is a huge success story. Its growth over the past few years has been truly mind-boggling. The company may have anywhere from 90 to 4,000 technology jobs to fill at any given time. These include software development, warehouse positions, product management, design, digital media and more.
Yet, for eager jobseekers, it can seem like a hu [...]