While America’s leading tech companies (again) top the annual list of popular employers for soon-to-be graduates, you may be surprised at three companies that rose from the grave of popular opinion in 2012.
College graduation used to be filled with hope and excitement. Lately, though, it seems as if the feeling most likely experienced while dressed in cap and gown is that of dread, with visions of a future burdened by unemployment, underemployment, and student loan payments in grads’ heads.
It’s been reported that more than half of the nation’s recently minted college graduates are either jobless or underemployed. That’s the highest percentage in over a decade. Some grads, though, have landed their dream jobs with great companies. What sets these applicants apart from the pack?
On Monday, thousands of college students, recent grads and those simply looking for work experience will begin internships en masse across the country. Knowing the right moves to make as an intern could mean the difference between a job and the unemployment line.
It’s never too late to start planning your retirement security. Here’s a one-size-fits-all strategy that will help secure an adequate stream of income in your later years.
This should cheer you up: You spend days, weeks, maybe even months working on your resume, fiddling with fonts and wording and getting it into perfect shape for your dream job. Then a recruiter looks at it for mere seconds and tosses it. (We’re not joking about mere seconds.)
In recent months, car sales have been booming at the same time that consumers have been paying more per vehicle. Because demand for cars is high, it would seem like a safe assumption that people need new wheels because we’re all driving more nowadays. Actually, the opposite is true.
Is now a good time to switch employers? Or is it wiser to stick with your current job and make the best of it? The days in which workers could expect to have one long career at a single company are long gone. In more recent times, the assumption has been that the quickest way [...]
Tax preparers toil in obscurity for most of the year, trying to keep track of the ever-changing kaleidoscope that is our federal tax code. But when crunch time comes for taxpayers to get their returns filed to the Internal Revenue Service’s satisfaction, everybody wants an expert in their corner willing to dispense advice and explain the [...]
The U.S. economy has finally started to see some steady, robust job growth — adding more than 220,000 jobs each of the past three months. This is surely good news for the country, but we all know that America is anything but a monolithic place. The unemployment rate for individual states varies widely. The most [...]
Employers’ practice of demanding access to job applicants’ privacy-protected social-networking pages has sparked concern among privacy advocates and outrage among ordinary Americans who object to tactics like “shoulder surfing”: the practice of demanding in, say, a job interview that someone log in to Facebook and reveal the privacy-protected parts of their profile. Now Facebook has [...]
