Webpages concerning "Career"
We all know them. Those slippery workplace chameleons who seem to change and adapt their behavior for each boss, manager or situation. Although it seems as if these glad-handers always get ahead, a new study to be published later this year says that schmoozers are in fact, losers.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/31/chameleon/index.html
The cold Colorado winter forces most people inside. But not Sheriff's Deputy Ted Eichholz.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/24/skicop/index.html
Call them what you want -- annual performance reviews, evaluations or appraisals -- employers and employees alike loathe them.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/22/appraisals/index.html
Want the inside scoop on who may win the Super Bowl on January 28? Bet on whichever team has the most players who say they'd rather be dogs than cats.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/15/nflshrink/index.html
A recent survey of employers indicates that a majority of them are watching employees' activity on the Internet at work. A near-omniscient eye -- and usually an electronic one -- may well be looking your way right now.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/02/surveillence/index.html
I've always been interested in politics. Ever since I was a kid and my mom wouldn't allow me to stay up and watch the Carter-Ford election results of 1976, says Mark Levine, I was mad.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/09/staffer/index.html
Our goal is to transform the stadium, make you forget you're at a football game for 10 minutes and throw you in the middle of the best rock show you've ever been to.
Alex Coletti and his staff make that modest promise to make this year's Super Bowl half-time show as memorable as the championship game itself. With the flip of a switch, they're hoping fans go from chanting to partying.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/25/superbowl/index.html
Sometimes it can be a very physically demanding job. The cleaning, of course. And cutting bamboo. Large quantities of it. Several hundred pounds of it each week.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/jobenvy/01/05/panda/index.html
So What Are You Going to Do With That? -- A Guide to Career-Changing for MAs and Ph.D.s
By Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 165 pages, January
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A recent survey of employers indicates that a majority of them are watching employees' activity on the Internet at work. A near-omniscient eye -- and usually an electronic one -- may well be looking your way right now.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/03/roadkill/index.html
How's this for the job <em>not</em> of your dreams: It typically requires an advanced degree, and a workweek somewhere in the 60-hour range, with work on weekends likely. The pay is low, there are no benefits, no job security. To get by, in the course of any given week, you'll likely have to commute to several, often widely-scattered job sites. At none of those places will you have an office...
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/11/adjunct/index.html
One of the most powerful career enhancements a person can use is to engage in political activity on behalf of their employer.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/08/pacman/index.html
Women are certainly moving, says Betty Friedan. Every day you read about women in the most God-awful, unforeseen places. I think it's really happening. And for women in many countries, it's new for women to be organized.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/01/29/conference/index.html
I hate computers.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/goodgadgetry/01/31/airport/index.html
John Robbins
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/dayonthejob/01/23/commerce/index.html
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) covered over 1 million square feet, drew over 110,000 people -- and is over. The closing, Tuesday, was my fifth day in Las Vegas and although I had that trade-show glaze over my eyes, I liked what I saw.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/goodgadgetry/01/10/ces/index.html
Blair Skidmore
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/dayonthejob/01/02/skidmore/index.html
If you're looking for a great way to light up the room when you walk in, I've got a suggestion that'll work everytime. Bring the Compaq Microportable Projector with you.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/goodgadgetry/01/17/compaq/index.html
We hear it all the time. But we don't listen.
http://cnn.com/2001/CAREER/corporateclass/01/25/listening/index.html
As you enter the new year, with a cell phone on your belt and a Palm V in your hand, remember that you could never have been this connected just five years ago. Would you ever go back?
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John Robbins
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John Robbins
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Wikipedia-Article "Career"
- This article is about a person's occupational history; for the board game, see Careers (board game).
A career is traditionally seen as a course of successive situations that make up a person's worklife. One can have a sporting career or a musical career, but most frequently "career" in the 20th century referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's money. It tended to look only at the past.
As the idea of personal choice and self direction picks up in the 21st century, aided by the power of the Internet and the increased acceptance of people having multiple kinds of work, the idea of a career is shifting from a closed set of achievements, like a chronological résumé of past jobs, to a defined set of pursuits looking forward. In its broadest sense, career refers to an individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.
In the relatively static societies before modernism, many workers would often inherit or take up a single lifelong position (a place or role) in the workforce, and the concept of an unfolding career had little or no meaning. With the spread during the Enlightenment of the idea of progress and of the habits of individualist self-betterment, careers became possible, if not expected.
Career counseling advisors assess people's interests, personality, values and skills, and also help them explore career options and research graduate and professional schools. Career counseling provides one-on-one or group professional assistance in exploration and decision making tasks related to choosing a major/occupation, transitioning into the world of work or further professional training. The field is vast and includes career placement, career planning, learning strategies and student development.
By the late 20th century a plethora of choices (especially in the range of potential professions) and more widespread education had allowed it to become fashionable to plan (or design) a career: in this respect the careers of the career counsellor and of the career advisor have grown up. It is also not uncommon for adults in the late 20th/early 21st centuries to have dual or Multiple Careers, either sequentially or concurrently. Thus, professional identities have become hyphenated or hybridized to reflect this shift in work ethic. Economist Richard Florida notes this trend generally and more specifically among the "Creative Class."
Labor and Employment Research
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Institute for Women and Work at Cornell University
Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School
For a pre-modernist "career" structure, compare cursus honorum.
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