Career breaks are no longer the sole preserve of university graduates looking to broaden their horizons on gap years before plunging themselves into the world of work. In fact, about 90,000 people every year 60 per cent of them women take some sort of career break. Typically, these individuals are in their late twenties or early thirties, although an increasing number are in their forties …
More than three decades after San Carlos youth development manager began working with the city on youth councils and addressed teen issues, Jeri Fujimoto recently decided to retire. Fujimoto, 55, said she began her career 32 years ago working with special-needs children, but saw a gap in service…
MIND the gap in your career, Ian Morbin, the customer service assistant who has handed in his resignation over an incident at Holborn Tube station on 15 October. Mr Morbin fund cause to, apparently, threaten/promises to “ sling ” a passenger “ under the train ”. Mr Morbin has apologised. Transport for London calls his behaviour “ unacceptable “. In the video, Mr Morbin is heard calling a “customer” “a jumped up little git” and “little girl”. A statement tells us: “Mr Ian Morbin, a C
by Laura Berger You make less money, but you are doing “good” work, so it’s worth it. You trade less money for a more flexible schedule, so you can take care of your family. You work for an organization that is struggling for money, so it doesn’t bother you that your boss failed to find funding to get you a long-deserved raise. These are only a handful of the excuses that lead people in general, but particularly women, to accept lower salaries in socially-conscious professions. Feminist is
Sometime back I wrote a post regarding the mushrooming of engineering and management colleges in India and how reforms in education (which are making setting up of such colleges easier everyday) are not helping the students in the long run. Most of the students of such tier II and III MBA colleges remain unemployed or get jobs which are not suited to their degree. Unemployability of MBAs has become a trend, a trend so obvious and so common that it now makes business sense to invest in making t
