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Women ‘earn less’ after career break

Professional women who put careers on hold for family or other reasons earn 18 per cent less once they return to the workforce, a new US survey reports.

The salary penalty for hopping off the career track is even higher in the business world, where earnings dropped an average of 28 per cent, according to the survey by the New York-based Centre for Work-Life Policy.
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Multi-Story Rsum, Higher Profile

Turn your life into short narrative tales of achievement — and no one will dream of filing that job application in the trash. Sometimes, I think I missed my calling — that I should have been a man born in the Middle Ages. True, the medical care was abysmal and life was a lot shorter, but I would have liked to have been a troubadour, traveling and telling stories. Singing, networking, and gossiping, with free room and board in every town — what’s not to like?
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Give your resume a makeover

Its a New Year time for a makeover.
When Jan. 1 rolls around its natural to start thinking about making a fresh start. The events that make up your daily routine start to feel stale and enthusiasm levels for things you once loved, or simply tolerated, begin to plummet. So you get a new hair color, a new wardrobe or new furniture.
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As Computer Jobs Continue To Shrink, Health Care, Service Work Replace Them

When it comes to jobs, California’s Silicon Valley is beginning to look a lot more like the rest of the country.

The engine that helped drive the U.S. economic boom of the 1990s is finally close to emerging from the employment slump that saw 10 percent of its jobs vanish between 2001 and 2002. The jobs it is adding aren’t in the computer-related industries that made it famous, though.
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Ageism warning to employers over new recruitment laws

But the skills shortage could also help older IT workers

Changes to discrimination laws and a skills shortage will force employers to tackle the problem of ageism in IT, according to a leading industry recruitment body.

New laws on age discrimination come into force in 2006 and the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (Atsco) claims employers will have to tread carefully.
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WorkingForChange-The myth of the greedy senior

Of all of the arguments for cutting and privatizing Social Security, the most obnoxious and misleading focus on the alleged “greed” of senior citizens — present and future.

Arguments that are false in their conclusion often contain grains of truth, and so does this one. It’s true that the aging of the baby boomers and relatively low birth rates in the post-boomer years mean that our population will get older in the coming decades and expenditures for Social Security and Medicare will rise.
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