by Barbara Safani | Oct 12, 2008 | career management, career research
Last week I went to hear Pamela Skillings speak at Pace University. Pamela is the author of Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. In her presentation, she shared some chilling statistics about the American workforce...
by Barbara Safani | Jul 18, 2008 | career research
I just came across a site called Glassdoor that allows you to browse employee reviews on companies and check out self-reported salary information. Anyone can look at partial reviews, but in order to view full reviews you need to become a member (it’s free) and...
by Barbara Safani | May 1, 2008 | career research, salary negotiation
Indeed recently added a feature that allows job seekers to enter a minimum salary requirement in the keyword search box. This feature will allow users to only receive information on jobs estimated to have similar salaries. Besides the obvious benefits of improving job...
by Barbara Safani | Mar 17, 2008 | career research
According to U.S. News and World Report, six key megatrends will help drive future job growth. The six megatrends are: the growing demand for healthcare an increasingly digitized world globalization clinical genomics environmentalism terrorism Career opportunities in...
by Barbara Safani | Mar 6, 2008 | career research
Fortune Magazine recently released their Most Admired Companies list. With the help of the Hay Group, 3,700 people from dozens of industries were asked to select the 10 companies they admire most. The larger list includes 317 companies that were rated based on...
by Barbara Safani | Dec 12, 2007 | career research
Here is the last installment in my three part series on job search research tools. The Corporate Finance Sourcebook features over 1,900 of today’s top investment sources and over 1,400 service firms. Securities Industry Yearbook includes information on...
