Students and graduates sometimes worry that their educational credentials don't stack up to those whose degrees came from more elite institutions.
As strains of "Pomp and Circumstance" drift from college campuses this month, odds are improving that new graduates' next stop will not be their parents' basements.
The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a series where cameras go into small businesses and employees are compelled to rat out underperforming colleagues. At the end, they choose one co-worker to recommend for firing.
The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was aided by a rising stock market, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.
The Street: Officeteam says younger companies, with younger and more informal executive teams, have taken the edge off of corporate dress codes; in 2007, 93% of U.S. executives put a big priority on dressing appropriately at the office, and that's down to 80% today. But 80% is still a big number, even if you don't work at a firm where men and women dress like they're extras on Mad Men.
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.
Just finished covering a trial involving of Vernon Hill 2d, the founder of Commerce Bank, who sued Commerce, and later TD Bank, which bought Commerce, in an effort to get his severance pay after he was ousted from the bank in June 2007 over regulatory issues.
I was glad I wasn't one of the jurors in U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler's courtroom in Camden. The arguments for both sides were pretty compelling.
If you’re a student and you’ve been too focused on your classwork – or spring break – to think about an internship, don’t worry. While some of the most coveted positions are filled at the start of the year, resourceful students can still find meaningful work experience.
Calling a typical American engineering school a boys' club would be an understatement - on average, women make up 18.2 percent of engineering undergraduates nationwide.
ATLANTA - President Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice, and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.
Want a job in today's economy? You may need to think, talk and write better.
A new survey by ELI Inc., a corporate training company that focuses on workplace conduct, found that about 30 percent of working people don't believe there is a "climate of trust" at their company.
Past studies show that a deep male voice is perceived as sounding like a business leader, says Briar Goldberg of Quantified Impressions, an Austin, Tx. firm that analyzes vocal qualities.
Top Workplaces 2013 is an effort to discover the best employers in the Philadelphia region - as decided by each company's employees. More than 26,000 were surveyed by WorkplaceDynamics of Exton. Here are their findings for best large, midsize and small companies, including firms based elsewhere that have a major area presence.
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