The News Review:
- Temp agency can be a good start for getting career on track
- Ideal career requires both beakers and brushes
- A practical guide for employers: How to attract and keep 55-plus…
- Faculty discusses ‘glass ceiling’ concept in relation to ISU
- Ghana: British Council Launches “Fast Track” At Legon
- English knowledge is passport for jobs
- Settling for ‘Safe’
Temp agency can be a good start for getting career on track
Modesto Bee – Mar 28, 2008
I have very good office skills and am very proficient with most office programs. Although there were many years when I didn’t have to work, I can honestly see now where it may have been best create and obtain stable work history. Where or how should I start to obtain employment? Can’t Budge A: Dear Can’t, You’ll be budging soon. Go to the best temporary agency in town, where breaks in employment won’t doom you. Sell yourself enthusiastically as a person with more-than-the-usual office skills, including software and customer service. Say that you’re interested in temp-to-hire so you get on track for a full-time permanent position. Capitalize on your resolve and newly-found direction… Although there were many years when I didn’t have to work, I can honestly see now where it may have been best create and obtain stable work history. Where or how should I start to obtain employment? Can’t Budge A: Dear Can’t, You’ll be budging soon. Go to the best temporary agency in town, where breaks in employment won’t doom you. Sell yourself enthusiastically as a person with more-than-the-usual office skills, including software and customer service. Say that you’re interested in temp-to-hire so you get on track for a full-time permanent position. Capitalize on your resolve and newly-found direction.
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Ideal career requires both beakers and brushes
Barrie Advance – Mar 28, 2008
Yes, hers is a generation unspoiled by the greedy pursuit of money and worldly possessions at the expense of those things that are genuinely important. Pardon me for a moment, Meghan has a question regarding her chosen career. ?Do environmentalists make a lot of money, daddy??This just in: Meghan the Elder is reconsidering her career path and is now mulling over many other possibilities for employment. The job talk has now turned to thoughts of working as either an artist or a scientist. ?Maybe I could be both,? she?ll say with unflagging optimism, sure that the two occupations naturally complement one another. I ventured aloud that she could most certainly do both, while mentally trying to reconcile the thought of a career requiring both beakers and brushes. The girls are vaguely aware of what it is I do all day, having tagged along for the rare weekend assignment.
A practical guide for employers: How to attract and keep 55-plus…
Barnstable Patriot – Mar 28, 2008
We recently published a booklet that provides employers with valuable information about hiring and retaining 55-plus workers. What kind of information do we provide?
Well we talk about flexibility on the part of employers. Some of the ideas that we present are:
Change hours of employment. This may be key in retention. Create alternative work arrangements and flexible scheduling. This could include flexible hours, shorter hours, part-time hours, job sharing and telecommuting. Create alternate career paths… Create alternative work arrangements and flexible scheduling. This could include flexible hours, shorter hours, part-time hours, job sharing and telecommuting. Create alternate career paths. Many 55-plus workers are not ready for retirement. Offering options like job rotation, mentoring assignments, or phased retirement enables companies to retain the expertise of employees, while allowing them the flexibility of pursuing other interests. Develop a cafeteria list of benefits and adjust compensation accordingly. Many 55-plus workers already have other health and benefit plans from former employers.
Faculty discusses ‘glass ceiling’ concept in relation to ISU
Indiana Statesman – Mar 28, 2008
substring(0, thispageresult. A “glass ceiling” refers to the barrier to career advancement into upper-level management positions because of discrimination, according to breaktheglassceiling. “A lot of the time when people think about discrimination, they think about individual discrimination where somebody is in a position to act out on sexist beliefs and they act on those beliefs,” said Thomas Steiger, professor of sociology and women’s studies. There are many different forms of discrimination, some of them more obvious than others. Discrimination in the form of different policies can dictate what kinds of employees are hired, said Steiger… “The pool of job opportunities is now broader for women whereas before, ISU had more women in administration since the other universities were hiring men. What could be happening is that we may be losing some qualified women to other universities. “Affirmative action describes policies aimed at a historically socio-politically non-dominant group in order to help them in the areas of education or employment, Downs said. “We work to make sure all qualified candidates are given equal consideration when hiring by looking at the pool of candidates being considered for a position and advertising positions in a way to promote a diverse group for the applicant pool,” Downs said. According to the Indystar. com’s archives, the difference in salary between women and men hired for the same position at the same time differed, some with little or no variance, and some ranging to an almost $10, 000 difference. However, of those receiving the top ten highest salaries at ISU, only two are women.
Ghana: British Council Launches “Fast Track” At Legon
AllAfrica.com – Mar 28, 2008
Fast Track is a strand of Management Express – British Council’s flagship Management Development Product, and a unique set of self cum professional development modules specially re-designed to bridge the gap between academia and the world of work. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); The launch which was at the instance of and with the active collaboration of the Student Representative Council of the University of Ghana, unveiled two new modules called Professional Success and Employable Skills. These modules are designed to complement formal academic study by enabling graduating students develop a wider range of skills and personal qualities that would assist them secure employment and achieve successful careers. Speaking at the launch, Mr Albert Eliason, Business Director, British Council, said students graduate from tertiary institutions with an appreciable understanding of the courses they pursued but lacked the skills and competencies that are necessary to secure and perform on the job. Eliason said there is overwhelming evidence to suggest a serious concern amongst employers to the effect that most university graduates do not possess employable skills. He said ‘graduate unemployment’ is a reality because the growth in the number of graduates annually is not matched by the number of jobs created, especially in the formal sector and this is exacerbated by "the mismatch between what employers expect and what the graduating student brings to the workplace.
English knowledge is passport for jobs
deccanherald.com – Mar 28, 2008
Students should mould themselves into excellent personalities. Apart from academic achievements, it is equally important for them to create their own individuality and carve a niche for themselves in this world, opined Principal of Siddaganga College Dr H S Niranjanaradhya. He was speaking at a programme on “Employment Opportunities” organised by the Old Students Association at the College premises here on Thursday. The principal said, students should gear themselves to compete at the global level. Degrees like BA, BCom, BSc, etc should not be mere steps to scale the academic ladder, but also the students should remember that they carry life-long importance in whatever career each of them decides to pursue, Mr Niranjanaradhya added. Competitive scenario
Also, going by the present-day competitive scenario, it is important for the students to pursue their interests in computers and also learn good language and communication skills in English, the principal advised. Director of Jetking Institute H P Suresh, who was the resource person on the occasion, explained about the various employment opportunities which were available at present for the benefit of students… He was speaking at a programme on “Employment Opportunities” organised by the Old Students Association at the College premises here on Thursday. The principal said, students should gear themselves to compete at the global level. Degrees like BA, BCom, BSc, etc should not be mere steps to scale the academic ladder, but also the students should remember that they carry life-long importance in whatever career each of them decides to pursue, Mr Niranjanaradhya added. Competitive scenario
Also, going by the present-day competitive scenario, it is important for the students to pursue their interests in computers and also learn good language and communication skills in English, the principal advised. Director of Jetking Institute H P Suresh, who was the resource person on the occasion, explained about the various employment opportunities which were available at present for the benefit of students. The effects of globalisation and liberalisation had lead to an increase in the number of employment opportunities in India. Only thing that is required for the students to know is – how to go about in search of these jobs, he said.
Settling for ‘Safe’
Chronicle of Higher Education – Chronicle of Higher Education (subscript… – Mar 28, 2008
Over my career, in several places of employment, I’ve seen this observation played out a number of times. Administrators who feel threatened by “strong” underlings hire weak persons to work beneath them. Complacent faculty-search committees recommend weak candidates who will not “shake things up. ” I know of one vice president for academic affairs who finally had his fill of weak recommendations, so he instructed all search committees to send him a list of finalists for each position and HE selected the candidates for on-campus invitations! On the other side of the campus, faculty senates seem to spring into action in the wake of weak administrative appointments, trying to gain a stronger voice in those searches. Perhaps the most maddening situation, however, is if you are a member of a department or are an administrator who works in the midst of searches that keep making safe choices.
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