The Intern Dilemma: So Many Positions, So Little Pay
Intern Nation by Ross Perlin – review | Books | The Guardian
Molly Fischer Reviews Ross Perlin’s “Intern Nation” | The New Republic
Business Trends
The Non-Mobile Society
Calculated Risk: Labor Mobility: Starting to Increase
This blog post on CalculatedRisk references an article from the Financial Times. I am struck by the differences in word choices. FT uses “picks up sharply” while CalculatedRisk states “starting to increase”. In conversations with my recruiter friends I’ve become aware of slightly higher activity in job openings. Some of these openings included paid relocation. A few years ago employers stopped offering paid relocation. These changes are not insignificant. But the job market remains weak.
Starting to increase is a better choice of words.
What Bubble?
Tracking Suspiciously Explosive Market Growth — New York Magazine
HT Tadas Viskanta at Abnormal Returns. Go to the original article for your Scary Chart of Bubbles.
Economic Thought for Today 5/28/11
Name the Three Types of Consultants
Get Your Money’s Worth from Consultants – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review
- Contractors
- Technical Experts
- Partner Consultants
I have personally worked on engagements in each of these types of consulting.
Are we having fun yet?
It’s Not Just a Job – It’s a Superjob
Change or Die
Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia
One of the most difficult things you ever have to do as a manager, executive or consultant is helping others to change. Follow this link to an interview with Seth Godin. It’s about 30 minutes long but well worth listening to. Godin’s thoughts about the future of the publishing industry are both scary and on target. Could there be another business so entrenched in the past, so tied to doing things the way they have always been done that its leaders are unable to see the changes all around us and that doing nothing becomes the perfect strategy for a slow and painful business death?
More on Multitasking – 04/23/2001
Interviews – Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS
“It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They’re terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they’re terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they’re terrible at switching from one task to another.”
This interview is worth reading in its entirety.
More on Flight Risk
Employee Loyalty Waning as National Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall
No, we are not talking about holes in 737’s. We are talking about MetLife’s 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends. I always credit my sources so instead of a direct link to the MetLife study I’ve linked the article where I first read about the study. There is a link at the bottom of that article to the download page at MetLife.
Flip is Dead
Cisco kills Flip, cuts 550 workers – Apr. 12, 2011
How to buy a business for $600 million (and with accounting charges added in) manage to lose $900 million two years later.
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