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The Job Market for MBAs is About to Take a Hit

Harvard Business Review

If you’re graduating from business school this spring, you might want to be sitting down for this: the job market for recent MBA graduates looks poised to get a lot worse in 2014. Though not random, it samples nearly 6,100 employers who recruit across 300 U.S. Which brings us to MBAs: The market for new MBAs has been hit hard.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. as young adult.

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How to Curate Your Own Personal Job Feed

Harvard Business Review

If you were searching for a pair of shoes online, it wouldn't be a very good strategy to go to Google or another search engine and type in "shoes." If you cast too wide a net, such as searching on "marketing" or "Atlanta" or "writing skills," you'll receive too many results that waste your time and energy. Here's how: 1. Get specific.

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Possibility Maximizer: LinkUp Monthly Jobs Report

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving. License. .  Enjoy!

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The Unintended Consequences of Diversity Statements

Harvard Business Review

Yet despite the proliferation of interest in diversity and costly initiatives aimed at increasing it, discrimination continues to be a major problem in the labor market. We found that roughly one-third of our sample had engaged in whitening, and two-thirds knew someone else who had. So where do we go from here?