The founder of Millennial Branding talks about establishing his position as the personal branding guru for Gen-Y.
Career Strategies
One Reason Why Companies Aren’t Hiring? They’re Buying Equipment
A front-page story in today’s New York Times offers an intriguing reason as to why unemployment continues: companies are investing in equipment instead of people. It’s the most significant disparity between the two in three decades.
We All Need to Feel Valued (Especially at Work), Right Loyal Readers?
Business Insider recently ran a piece by Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excellent at Anything, on how “the need to feel valued at work is as important as the need for food.” Well, kind of.
Private K-12 Programs Decline in Popularity. Smart Move?
The United States Department of Education‘s The Condition of Education 2011 report confirms a trend that anecdotal evidence has suggested for some time: private schools for children from pre-K through high school are declining in …
Q&A: Counselor Lynn Berger on Shifting Careers
Some people turn to counselors when they’re thinking about a second career. Lynn Berger is one of them. For years she’s been helping people decide whether to pursue a completely new field. But a lot of times, changing …
How I Did It: Aaron Patzer on Creating Mint.com
The Mint.com founder talks about some of the challenges he faced while building his business.
College Offers Degree in Multi-level Marketing (a.k.a. Pyramid Selling!)
Mocking students who choose impractical majors is a popular pastime in the blogosphere; HolyTaco.com has a list of the Top 10 Most Worthless College Majors, with fields like Music Therapy, English Literature, and Latin landing on …
Congratulations, College Graduates! But Did You Just Waste Your Money, and Four Years of Your Lives?
There seems to be no stopping the argument that college is overpriced, overvalued, and not particularly good at preparing students for their lives after being kicked out of the dorms. Upon hearing some of the factoids gathered by …
