by Kerry Hannon If you are job hunting in your 50s, and some of these ‘don’ts’ describe you, here’s what to do [metaslider id=1408] http://www.aarp.org/work/job-hunting/info-2015/job-search-mistakes-photo.html?cmp=SL-DSO-OUTBRAIN-DESKTAB-WORKJOBS-WORKJOBSALTHEAD-MIXED-DIVERS_8+Don%27ts+for+Job+Hunters+Over+50_922038017_384871#slide1
by Maureen Conway The American workforce started out as the goose that laid the golden egg for American business, but now it is suffering a death of 1,000 cuts. Americans work harder than almost anyone else in the world, putting
By: Jim Michaels My personal exposure to Silicon Valley is limited. Back in the 1990s, I was interviewing for a job at a large technology company expanding into the media business. When the interviewer asked about my management experience, I pointed
By: Jason Tanz Salman Khan sits at the head of a conference table, surrounded by about a dozen children, talking about Hitler. It’s late June, nine months into the first year at Khan Lab School, Khan’s educational R&D lab in
by Ricky Riley As technology increasingly becomes a vital part of our lives, diversity in tech will continue be a major issue. According to a study by New York startup Course Report, coding boot camps like Black Girls Code and Code
By PATRICIA COHEN When the Obama administration agreed this summer to erase the federal loan debt of some former students at Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit school that filed for bankruptcy in the face of charges of widespread fraud, education officials
by Scott Bittle An increasingly technology driven economy is creating a new category of “hybrid jobs” that combine programming skills along with abilities in design, data analysis and marketing, according to a new report, “Blurring Lines: How Business and Technology Skills
By: Kurt Badenhausen Arizona was absolutely hammered during the financial crisis of the late 2000s. Median home prices in the state plummeted 53% over five years from $250,000 in 2006 to $117,000. The foreclosure rate was the second highest in
By PAUL THEROUX EVERY so often, you hear grotesquely wealthy American chief executives announce in sanctimonious tones the intention to use their accumulated hundreds of millions, or billions, “to lift people out of poverty.” Sometimes they are referring to Africans, but
