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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Make sure you say in your ad description what they need to be successful with you (eg – a computer with internet access, a nice phone voice, computer skills, etc.). If possible, provide some financial incentive like a small hourly rate or commission for work well-done. I have used www.internhere.com to post my request.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. At least for the first while, while you get them skilled up to where they need to be. However, it can get quite expensive.

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Should You Hire an Overqualified Candidate?

Harvard Business Review

People don't stay or leave a company because of their skills. We define it as meeting and exceeding the skill requirements of the job. When considering a candidate who is, in fact, overqualified for the job opening, ask yourself if there is room to expand the role and make use of the skills he brings.

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

Sperling is catching flak, though, for something that was first disclosed in 2009 — the fact that he was paid $887,727 in 2008 by Goldman Sachs. As David Corn tells it , Sperling suggested that Goldman fund a $100 million program to teach business skills to 10,000 women in poorer countries. They paid him $70,000 a month.

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The Business School Tuition Bubble

Harvard Business Review

Initial apprehensions were expressed at least as early as 2009 in places like The Economist and The Chronicle of Higher Education. And Mark Perry , a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, puts it in perspective with a handy chart.). The doom-and-gloom scenarios always struck me as overly pessimistic.

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Why the U.S. Needs Wage Insurance

Harvard Business Review

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. Education and training programs remain necessary for workers to gain the skills needed to land high-wage jobs.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.