$430 Doesn’t Go Far
Lose your job in Boston, Pittsburgh, Seattle or Trenton and you could collect $544 or more per week in unemployment benefits. But get laid off in New York City, as almost 200,000 workers have in the past year, and the most you can collect is $430 a week. via For New York’s Newly Jobless, $430 [...]
Some Laid-Off Workers Seek New Careers as DJs
So this is what it’s come to, eh? From Tiffany to…er…Tiffany (of 80s pop star fame). Mr. Sanchez, 51, was a jewelry salesman at Tiffany & Co., on Fifth Avenue, for 23 years. After hearing what has become a familiar phrase — “You’re being laid off” — he put himself on a different sort of [...]
Should you take a step down the ladder to get a job?
Considering a step down the ladder in your career – simply to get a job – is a difficult decision. This article covers the pros and cons: Pro: …for many people, having a full-time job, even a downgrade, can be better for self esteem than reading the want ads. Says Georgia-based career coach Walter Akana, [...]
Never Say Thank You
This very short piece says everything you need to know about investment banking (and trust me, public accounting was not far off of this, either): Never Say Thank You – NYTimes.com.
the challenge of repatriation
An interesting article (see below) about the challenges of repatriation got me thinking about my own experience. It’s not so much that I had a cultural adjustment to returning to the states, but professionally I faced tremendous challenges. I went from a Russian-speaking (and therefore unique) manager of large teams on critical clients to a [...]
Don’t Neglect to Send a Cover Letter When Applying for a Job
Cover letters are still necessary, and in a competitive market they can give you a serious edge if they are written and presented effectively. via Career Couch – Don’t Neglect to Send a Cover Letter When Applying for a Job – Interview – NYTimes.com. Worth remembering if you apply for a job, although I’d take [...]
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