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Computer jobs lose luster for young aspiring techies
As an eager freshman in fall 2001, Andrew Mo’s career trajectory seemed preordained: He would learn C and Java languages while earning a computer science degree at Stanford University, then land a Silicon Valley technology job.
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How Do Successful Job Hunters Do It?
We are all destined to go job hunting again. The only question is how soon. The job hunt now occurs some five to nine times in most people’s lives, with two or three career changes thrown in somewhere along the way, just to keep things interesting. So the search always awaits us (unless we are retired or semi-retired).
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With the job market returning and companies hiring again, now comes a new wrinkle: How do you write a resume that explains what you’ve been doing for the past four years?
This was a period, after all, when people with master’s degrees drove cabs. When tech workers bounced from temp job to temp job. When the titles “self-employed” or “consultant” were euphemisms for “out of work.”
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The Office of the Future - the skills you will need
Reskilling, upskilling, telecommuting, downsizing, redundancy changes in the workplace are all a bit scary unless you have a high tolerance for uncertainty. According to new research the office of the future will be increasingly mobile, with technology enabling employees to perform their jobs from virtually anywhere. The Office of the Future: 2020 research study warns that greater control over where and how people work won’t necessarily translate into more free time. Forty-two percent of executives polled said they believe employees will be working more hours in the next 10 to 15 years.
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