The headline on the article (on the www.Nanowerk.com site) says it all: “Young people in Europe interested in science, but not in scientific careers.” The article reports on http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_239_en.pdf ...READ»
I’m a big fan of Chicago Public Radio’s program “This American Life,” with Ira Glass. If I miss the broadcast on Sunday (WHYY, Philadelphia), I listen to the podcast later in the week. This week’s program, “Wrong Side ...READ»
When I write about career choice, I usually encourage people to consider the potential rewards of the occupation: extrinsic rewards such as income and job opportunity, plus intrinsic rewards such as opportunities for leadership or ...READ»
Everyone recognizes that men and women have different career behaviors, including their choices of career goals. I address this difference in my Best Jobs books, which invariably include lists of occupations with high percentages of ...READ»
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been in effect long enough for news to come out about some of the specifics it contains. I’m especially interested in these specifics because when I put together a book about ...READ»
I have been paying more attention to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 than to most legislation, largely because it is the focus of my latest book, Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan. As the title ...READ»
This morning the first printed copies of my most recent book, Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan, arrived at the JIST offices. Here in New Jersey I’m going to have to wait a little longer to get my hands on a copy, but it ...READ»
The recent appearance of automobile executives on Capitol Hill and their dire warnings about the threats to their industry reminded me of another brutal transformation that their industry experienced in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ...READ»
One of the most standard topics of career information is the level of education, training, and/or experience commonly required for entry to the occupation in question. It is a standard part of the career profiles that I put in my ...READ»
If you think I made a typo in the heading of this blog, I guess you haven’t seen the very enjoyable movie with this name, starring Will Smith. It’s about a medical equipment salesworker who competes, against great odds, for a ...READ»
Last week I was at the annual meeting of the Association of Computer-based Systems for Career Information. This year, for the first time, the meeting was held jointly with America’s Career Resource Network Association, and the two ...READ»
Once when my daughter was very small and we were dining in a seafood restaurant, she looked at her placemat and was puzzled. The paper placemat was illustrated with colorful pictures of pirates, and she was wondering why so many of ...READ»
In my book about recession-proof jobs, one of the criteria I used in selecting the recession-proof jobs was that they not be on the list of occupations that the U.S. Department of Labor considers vulnerable to offshoring. I can’t ...READ»
Career development professionals like to have clients take interest inventories because these instruments are easy to administer and fit well into the dominant philosophy of person-environment fit. This theory holds that people are ...READ»
Recently I got in touch with a journalist who was researching a story about how the election of Barack Obama may affect people’s income. I focused on one issue, the laws against wage discrimination. You may recall that, in 2007, the ...READ»
The average age of retirement has been declining for several decades and now is at about age 62. Of course, not everyone intends to retire at that age. (Count me among those who do not.) One of the reasons I wrote 225 Best Jobs for ...READ»
As an informal part of my research for the book I’m presently working on, Your $100,000 Career Plan: Match Your Personality to a Six-Figure Job, I have chatted with physicians who are personal friends and have asked about their ...READ»
In a book that I’m presently working on (Your $100,000 Career Plan: Match Your Personality to a Six-Figure Job), I classify a group of occupations under the heading “professional,” and one common characteristic I note among ...READ»
If you Google the phrase “education pays,” the very first hit you’ll get is a page at the Bureau of Labor Statistics that features a chart representing the median weekly earnings in 2007 of people with various levels of ...READ»
In last week’s entry, I summarized research indicating that congruence or lack of congruence, in RIASEC terms, does not appear to be a good predictor of success or lack of success in a college major. I suggested that RIASEC type ...READ»
In last week’s entry I reported on the research of Smart, Feldman, and Ethington on the effect of students’ congruence or lack of congruence (in RIASEC terms) with their college majors. The researchers measured the degree of ...READ»
Because I am writing this blog about unions, I should start out with full disclosure: I do not belong to a union and never have, but my father and grandfather were both union organizers--when they were not managers. Therefore, I have ...READ»
