Hiring freezes, more lay-offs, double digit unemployment and sluggish economic growth that translates into slow job creation. You’ve got to ask yourself, when is there going to be some on the job front? For workers over 50, these are particularly tense times, with many facing compromised retirement plans and uncertain futures. However, [...]

Although Facebook started as a way for old high school classmates and others to reconnect and to keep in touch with one another, it is quickly creeping into the world of academia is well. Not only do students gather on Facebook to discuss last night’s homework and to help each other study for a big [...]

There is always the complaint that college classes in turn lead to more money being spent on course books. While textbooks are the major money-depleting culprits, having to buy a stack of literature paperbacks are just as damaging to a student’s budget; especially if the student has no intention of ever reading the book again.
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At the rate technology is growing these days, professors are taking advantage of newly-marketed pieces to make learning more interesting and more convenient. The appearance of Kindles to replace eight-pound textbooks is slowly catching on, and iClickers are used to take attendance instead of the regular pen-and-paper roll-call. The other craze, it seems, is professors [...]

There’s a lot of talk about the stimulus package, but are you asking yourself when you are going to feel stimulated? With over 6 millions jobs lost in the last 18 months, you have to wonder if we’ve hit bottom yet – and even if the worst is over, where are those new jobs [...]

An interesting study conducted by Korn/Ferry International, which is an executive search firm, and the Columbia Business School found that mentoring and education were the two most critical components toward helping the most successfully senior-level women and minority executives get to where they are today.
The study, which examined 280 minorities and women who averaged [...]