Career Articles of the Week: Career Shmeer 9/3/10

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Welcome to the 6th installment of the Career Shmeer, where you’ll find links to great career articles from the past week (or so). Posting has been slow the past few weeks: during that time the site got a facelift via Matt Chevy and I took a summer vacation to Chicago to see family, friends, Lollapalooza [...]

September 3, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Want To Change the World? Check Out Advocacy Careers! (Interview)

Environmental advocate PJ Wilson

Advocacy careers are a great way for you to fight for the things you’re passionate about in life. We’ve all heard the famous quote from Ghandi, “you must be the change you want to see in the world”. If you want to be the change, you can be an advocate by working for or starting [...]

August 31, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Animator Jobs: Odd Todd Talks Freelance Animation Careers

Odd Todd

Animation careers are growing in popularity and demand. As today’s media landscape expands, so does the use of animation and computer graphics….and with that comes animation careers. Just ask today’s guest, Odd Todd Rosenberg, who launched a freelance animation career after the success of “Odd Todd: A Day In the Life”, his computer animation video [...]

August 25, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Green Home Building Careers

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Green home building is a growing movement here in America. Green jobs and green careers are on the rise as our government does some serious green investing, entrepreneurs search for new business ideas and the public’s environmental awareness grows. Almost a quarter of America’s energy consumption comes from our homes. Odds are that your energy [...]

August 10, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Career Articles of the Week – Career Shmeer 7/30/10

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Welcome to the 5th installment of the Career Shmeer, where we provide links to great career articles from the past week (or so). Today’s shmeer also includes an update on the good that comes from doing volunteer work…plus a picture I recently took with someone famous who has probably made you laugh!

July 30, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Pharmacy Benefit Management – Healthcare Sales Jobs (Interview)

Bob Eisendrath

Pharmacy Benefit Management, part of the massive healthcare benefits area, is a healthcare career that you may not have considered. I didn’t even know it existed – and neither did today’s guest when he was in college, long before he rose to become an Area VP of National Accounts, overseeing sales and account management specialists

July 29, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Franchise Businesses as College Graduation Gifts

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Franchise businesses are being purchased by parents as college graduation gifts for their children. I’ve heard of gifts like grad school, a new suit or a new brief case but a franchise business?! This is an interesting trend. Sure, there aren’t many job opportunities out there lately for young college grads….but getting mom and dad [...]

July 28, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Summer Jobs and Internships Thanks To Federal Funding

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Internships and summer jobs are being made available through federal stimulus funds to low-income teens and young adults ranging in age from 14 to 24 in many cities around the country. Although summer jobs prospects are currently bleak for youths and debate continues in Congress as to whether additional federal funds should be poured into [...]

July 27, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

College Degrees in U.S. Lagging Behind Other Countries

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College degrees used to be something America could brag about. As of the 1980s, we were the world leaders in college degrees amongst 25 to 34 year-olds. The sad news is that we have not maintained our success and have been significantly passed by. We now rank 12th among 36 developed nations led by

July 26, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Get Outside For Some Adventure! (Nature video)

Marc Luber

Escape the office! Get away from your desk! Recharge! Today is Friday so it’s a perfect time for the important reminder that we all need to take a break once in a while and get outside for some adventure. Thinking about our careers can be stressful. Whether we’re job hunting, plugging away at our current [...]

July 23, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →