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Diplomas and Dilemmas: How 2023 Graduates Can Navigate Job Market Chaos

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2023 grads are entering a job market that is not so quick to employ new grads. This is a shift from the past two years where companies were fiercely competing to recruit interns and recent graduates. Although the U.S. February of this year saw an unemployment rate of 4.6%

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Is Earned Wage Access A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing?

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This has led countless people to switch jobs hunting for higher pay, continuing the Great Resignation, and leaving companies to struggle to fill roles. While inflation has now stabilized enough that the Fed has taken a pause on raising interest rates , it’s still a pressing issue for the many families struggling to pay their bills.

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"Don't be messy. Be on time."

On The Job

But some enterprising teens got together and decided they wanted to set up their own job site, and have done so at myfirstpaycheck.com. While pretty limited in scope, it is interesting to read some comments from job-hunting teens and the lessons learned. She did impart these words of wisdom: "Don't dress messy. del.icio.us.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I have heard of EAs working for successful international corporations and earning a very large salary. You care less, you’re easily annoyed, you start to do a cost-benefit analysis, you feel resentful, and you feel short changed. Even asking to intern, shadow, or be mentored by someone well respected is a great first step.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

As for entitled, now and unlike many previous generations, we work for free on top of working a menial job to make the bills. Interning is supposed to get you ahead, to help you find a job but now it seems people are just taking advantage. 8 tips to help you find your way in this tough job.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Are You Stuck in Gender.

On The Job

While being competitive is good in business, such a win-at-all-costs nature is destructive to teams, and will negatively impact business results. By believing only he can do a job right, a man who has this attitude undermines his leadership because “you can’t be a leader without followers,” they say. Stop trying to “one up” colleagues.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

6) Be strategic about your career plan and job hunt. If you’ve been doing the same job every year without any growth or increased responsibility, you really only have 2 years of experience that’s been repeated X amount of years. The kicker was, since the event was international, there was a time zone difference.