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We here at HigherEdJobs.com appreciate the efforts it takes to be successful in your job search. We have compiled some original and/or exclusive articles below that we feel will be practical and inspirational during this process. As always, we appreciate the privilege of helping you achieve your goals.
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Community Colleges - October 2009
by Lisa Rabb -
How to Deal With What Used to Be Called Failure - October 2009
by Peter Weddle -
The Vacuum in Our Careers - October 2009
by Peter Weddle -
The 3 Goals of a Career Activist - September 2009
by Peter Weddle -
Coming to America - September 2009
by Lisa Rabb -
The World of Work AGR - August 2009
by Peter Weddle -
In Search of (Personal) Excellence - August 2009
by Peter Weddle -
Dual-Careers in Higher Ed - Part Two - July 2009
by Charles DuBois -
Dual-Careers in Higher Ed - Part One - July 2009
by Charles DuBois -
Micro Careers - June 2009
by Peter Weddle -
How This Mom Will Chart Her Own Academic Future - June 2009
by Stephanie Velegol -
UnNatural Work Sells You Short - June 2009
by Peter Weddle -
Take Your Talent to Work Day - May 2009
by Peter Weddle -
We Don't Do Careers - May 2009
by Peter Weddle -
The Weak Link Syndrome - April 2009
by Peter Weddle
According to Shirley Robinson Pippins, senior vice president for programs and services at the American Council on Education (ACE), the perception of community colleges is changing...
Most of us go into a job search thinking we may be a little rusty, but confident that, basically, we know what to do. Then you do it, and the galling indifference and humiliating rejection begin. Employers don't acknowledge your resume submissions, executive search and staffing firms don't return your calls, and recruiters act as if you are damaged goods. It's hard not to feel as if you're a failure.
And yet, you're not. Let me say that again: You are not a failure. You are not a loser or a deadbeat or a flop. Your belief that you are (or your concern that you may be) is based on two misconcept...
We're all familiar with bubbles. There was the dot.com bubble in the 1990s and the housing bubble in the early years of this century. They were overheated investments that ultimately fell flat. In our careers, however, we've done exactly the opposite. Most of us have invested little or nothing in our careers, and the resulting vacuum is strangling our future. That sucking sound we hear is our future imploding...
Job security has joined the pay phone and carbon paper. It's no longer a part of the world of work. Employers may promise it, but they can't deliver it. The global marketplace is just too dynamic, too unpredictable.
Does that mean there is no security in the workplace? Absolutely not. The kind of security you can achieve, however, is unlike that historically promised by your emplo...
When Flavia Benedito, a language tutor educated in Brazil, immigrated to the United States a few years ago, she applied for several positions to no avail. With a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Language and Secretarial Science from Universidade do Sagrado Coracao, and a master's degree in International Business from Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba, the problem wasn't that Benedito wasn't qualified for these jobs...
If you're looking for a job, you're probably doing so with two strikes against you. I realize that's a harsh statement, but sadly, it's almost certainly true. Why? Because most of the people in the job market today conducted their last job search prior to December, 2007, the date today's Great Re...
We've all heard of the alpha male and female. The dictionary defines them as the dominant person in a group, the one everybody emulates and follows. The term was originally coined to describe behavior in wolf and dog packs, but for most of the 20th Century, it also accurately depicted the way we interacted in our careers. One person was on top, and the rest of us brought up the rear...
Every dual-career couple has its story, each involving a complicated list of aspirations in the balance -- satisfying work for two professionals, a good life for the kids, stability as a family, friendly living environment, adequate compensation and benefits, career accommodation between partners, and more...
While the emerging signs are encouraging for dual-career academics, there is still thorny terrain to be traversed. Institutions are responding to the value these couples represent and partners in academe are finding a more welcoming recruiting environment.
Still, there's progress to be made and talks across the negotiating table must be thought through and deliberate -- dollars, academic reputations, careers, and family ties depen...
The common view has been that we have one career. Typically, it was defined by both our occupational field -- we are an attorney, a salesperson or a logistics professional -- and our employer -- we work at IBM or at Coca- Cola. Although we were often told otherwise, many of us believed that we would spend our entire career working for that one or, at most, two or three different organizations...
When my mother graduated from high school, her career choices included: teacher, nurse or secretary. How far we have come since those days! Girls today are told they can be whatever they want to be. Children's books showcase women truck drivers and construction workers and male nurses. Women have risen to the highest positions in many fields - CEOs, academic deans, physicians, even, almost, president. They have worked hard to prove themselves n...
For many people, work is an onerous, often frustrating and even demeaning experience. It is something they do in order to enjoy the rest of their life. If you find that hard to believe, consider this: According to research, an astonishing 88% of all Americans daydream at work about quitting their job to do something else.
Why are so many people unhappy with their employm...
You are destined to be nothing special, so you might as well accept it. That was the message from a prominent career counselor writing in a major news magazine this week. As he blithely put it, "Failures may help you realize you are average; not everyone can be a star." And then, just to smack you down a little further, he adds the following obtusely patronizing observation: "But plain folk are worthy too." Thanks for the reassurance, pal....
We Americans have any number of attributes that uniquely define our culture. That's true in society at large and in the workplace. Normally, these characteristics are healthy and helpful. Sometimes, however, habits that were once benign can suddenly become foolhardy and even harmful. We love our cars, for example, and although many of us have long driven them to work, that easy, comfortable way of doing things now threatens our wallets as well as our environment...
It was partly my own fault. I realize that now. I naively accepted an invitation on LinkedIn to connect with someone I didn't know. I did confirm that this person was in the employment field, and since I'm terrible at remembering names, I thought that we may have met at a conference somewhere. I still don't know whether that's the case, but as soon as I accepted the invitation, this person started to spam me with email after email about openings he was trying to fill...