Gerry brings up an interesting point in my last posting, about flexible work being a key issue for today’s workforce: men need and desire flexibility as much as women.
According to the Tuck survey I referred to in the last post:
Men are very interested in career breaks but for different reasons than women. While women ranked parenthood
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Last night, I attended an event at Merrill Lynch hosted by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. It was called the Back in Business Roadshow, and the multi-city tour is meant to appeal to women and men who have stepped off the career treadmill and are looking to step back on.
The panelists painted a fairly rosy picture of all that …
Not really. She seems sweet and all, but how the heck could she win a national singing competition over a true talent like Melinda Doolittle? What is wrong with you, America? And I realize I’m preemptively calling the contest, though there’s still the outside chance that Blake–I don’t even know his whole name–could pull it out. Enough …
So this was my day so far today:
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Beauty swag haul in Rockefeller Center. I don’t write about beauty, or beauty products, nor would anyone besides my indiscriminately complimentary nephew Jack call me a beauty. And yet I was invited–as a workplace writer, somehow–to an event held in a swanky restaurant beside the …
Did you know 85% of entry-level job candidates are poorly prepared for the job hunt? Figures: amazingly, many universities in this country still lack constructive focus on career prep. (But if you want to take a class on the social impact of porn, sign right up.)
So it’s no surprise that many addled grads turn to the bookstore for a …
During the year and a half I worked for TIME as a Tokyo correspondent, I handed out approximately 41,325 business cards. Well, okay. Maybe a few hundred less. But seriously, business cards–meishi in Japanese–are serious business over there, requiring proper etiquette in everything from their handling (always receive one with both …
What would you do for a million bucks?
Me:
• Eat a pound of cilantro.
• Walk around Times Square in briefs and cowboy boots singing God Bless America.
• Curse at my boss in Japanese.
Our sister magazine Money conducted a survey on ethics and money that will appear in its June issue. Some findings:
• When asked what they’d be
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I don’t normally stray into politics in this space; I leave that to the swamp creatures (and I provide a link because I’m a good colleague, not because they need my help in the traffic department…trafficwise, Swampland is Disneyland and Work in Progress is the cubicle down the hall with the mini-Snickers in the jar).
But a comment by …
Something to chew on as Memorial Day approaches:
Did you know that close to 300,000 members of the military enter civilian life every year? And that many of them–despite their honorable service and sharp skills and the earnest promises of politicians–will struggle to find work?
I have a story up on Time.com titled “Finding Jobs for …
The batch is growing, so here again are my thumbnail reviews of business books–or, more accurately, of their covers. I review the jackets. You review the contents. I’m that lazy. The rules:
1) Write a comment telling me which book you want, and fill in the e-mail box so I can write and get your address.
2) Receive book in mail.
3) Read …
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on how the networks are building buzz for the new season’s shows by courting–yes–bloggers. To promote The New Adventures of Old Christine, CBS targeted mommy bloggers (bolds mine):
Warner Bros., the studio that produces the show for CBS, identified 12 blogs about motherhood, a key theme in
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