Why a $90,000 Job Goes Unfilled

Despite record unemployment, recruiters said they can’t find enough candidates to fill certain jobs, according to a survey of recruiters by the Human Capital Institute (HCI) and TheLadders, which operates Career-Line.
The trouble for recruiters isn’t finding willing applicants. They can’t find candidates with the necessary skills and industry experience to fill the positions, several recruiters [...]

Overqualified for the Job? Recruiters Say, “Change Careers”

Recruiters don’t like placing or hiring overqualified candidates. It’s a recipe for disaster, said Nancy Anton, a corporate recruiter, consultant and speaker.
“Overqualified workers will be quickly bored, frustrated and discouraged, and the moral in the office may suffer,” she writes on her ERE.net blog. Anton said the only acceptable hire is one wh0 balances experience [...]

Fewer Harvard, MIT, UPenn Grads Seek Finance Jobs as Salaries Shrink

Dramatically fewer college graduates want to work in financial services and many Wall Street veterans are turning away from the industry, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Only 20 percent of the Harvard class of 2009 wanted to work in finance, down from 40  percent in 2008, and 47 percent in 2007, according [...]

Top Jobs for 2009 Are in Math, Science and Technology

Math careers top out the list of best careers in 2009.

The greatest revenge of the nerds may be in the realm of careers.
Math, science and numbers-centric careers have topped out a list of 200 as having the best jobs, according to  a study published by job site CareerCast.com earlier this year. The numbers were culled from the [...]

Career Advice: Learning From General Motors

With news today that General Motors has been approved to start a new company, the automotive giant will also be selling off or killing some its major brands including Pontiac, Hummer, Saturn and Saab. The new GM, which was approved by a bankruptcy court, will be 60 percent owned by the U.S. government.
The new company will buy the remaining assets [...]

Switching Industries: New GM CEO Comes from AT&T

Talk about transferable skills and results.
Former telecommunications executive for AT&T and SBC Edward Whitacre was named the chairman and CEO of General Motors. Whitacre, a Texan with a reputation for killing snakes and acquiring companies, has a pretty big task ahead of him in helping to turn around a foundering American auto industry.
What qualifications does he [...]