College Grads Changing Careers to the NYPD
The ranks of New York City’s finest are being joined by increasing numbers of refugees from other New York career sectors, notably the financial services area. Applications to the Police Academy rose 54 percent in 2008 over 2007, when there were 17,212 applicants. The wider pool of candidates has enabled the department to become [...]
New Employment Survey Report in the News
Exhibiting an uncanny grasp of the obvious, CNN’s Money section, is carrying a story about the difficult job market for 2010 college graduates: Job Outlook: Still Stinks. “Hiring for graduates will remain near its lowest level in decades after 40% plunge last year, new survey says. But hiring will spike 15% at smaller companies.”
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Lots of Opportunity in Health Care Technology
Health care and technology have been growth industries for years – and some of the best job openings today are in fields where health care and technology meet. Radiology technician schools are turning out professionals that have been trained to work with the ever-expanding diagnostic tools used in medicine today. Some of these [...]
A Bright Financial Future for Solar Industry Careers
A recent survey by CleanEdge Inc. looked at the growth jobs in what is shaping up to be a growth business sector – green industries. There are job opportunities in every area, with a range of educational requirements. The number one sector for near term growth is in Solar PV, or photovoltaic [...]
Job Opportunities Shifting in Videogame Industry
Yesterday the world’s largest videogame producer, Electronic Arts (EA), announced that 1) its second fiscal quarter earnings were as expected, and; 2) they are laying off 1,500 employees. In an industry that has seen nothing but spectacular growth through most of its existence, the biggest player of all has hit a plateau – at [...]
A Snapshot of the Top 50 Jobs in Indiana
Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development has released a list of the top fifty jobs in the state based on several statistical factors for both long and short term job growth and salary growth. The figures were laid out in detail recently at a breakfast in Fort Wayne for high school guidance counselors hosted [...]
What’s a Jobless Recovery?
If you have been watching the headlines parade by in recent weeks you’d think the American economy has once again surfaced, sputtering for air. It’s been record days on Wall Street, a $1 billion quarter from Ford, as well as banks (B of A) and insurance companies (AIG) who took billions in federal subsidies [...]
Expert Claims Science and Technology Students have “Better Chance at Jobs”
All jobs are not created equal — even when the economy is in full swing recovery, some future jobs will have more potential and offer better opportunities than others, and the paths that some people take may make those opportunities easier or harder yet. According to GradPlus, one expert is pointing to science and technology [...]
Future of Journalism Careers Debated at Conference
The School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley is hosting a conference on the future of journalism this week; the principal question among all the participants being whether journalism as we have known it will survive at all. The Web has become both an advertising medium and a news resource to [...]
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