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...immorally - including lying or backstabbing - to keep their jobs. The survey was commissioned by Adecco, the world's largest staffing-solutions company, which oversees 700,000 employees around the world in any given week. The company wanted to know how the recession has affected people's attitudes toward their career and job prospects, which are, of course, getting only dimmer - since last fall, the number of available jobs has declined while the number of job seekers has remained constant, according to Bernadette Kenny, chief career officer at Adecco. (See pictures of office cubicles around the world...
...their boss to deepen their bond with a superior. "The negative responses were surprisingly high," says Kenny. "People are very frightened of losing their job, and they become threatened. People make extensive plans for Christmas, for vacations, weddings and holidays, but they put very little planning into their own career, which is a family's greatest investment. So they are not prepared financially and emotionally for the loss of steady income." And under that threat, she says, people are more likely to resort to dishonesty to save their livelihood. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...course, for much of the U.S., working is not optional. But with men making up 82% of the recession's job losses, women are flocking to mom-centric job and career-consulting sites, where they learn how to translate their maternal skills (negotiation, time management) into corporate argot. Mom Corps, a staffing company that pairs women with white collar jobs that have flexible hours, in February surveyed its 500 most recent registrants: 63% said the economy was driving their decision to look for work. Five percent said they joined because their spouse was laid...
...mystery to Lisa Estabrook, 50, who left her advertising job at a bank in Philadelphia when her first child was born 16 years ago. Now she finds herself haunting YourOnRamp, which her husband - who was laid off from a reinsurance firm six weeks ago - heard about from a career counselor at a local church. She rattles off all the networking sites she's trying to get a handle on, including Facebook and Tweeter. Um, make that Twitter. "To my kids," she says, "it's funny to see Mom trying to get with it." (See which businesses are doing well despite...
...offer one semester classes that serve as basic surveys of video game scoring. Berklee’s curriculum, however, continues to grow with the enthusiastic support of its students, the college, and the public. BIGGER THAN A BLIPComposers with training in film scoring who looked to commercial media for career options are now turning to the video game industry. However, the transition between the two is not quite so simple.“When you’re doing a film, you’re doing a specific scene—for instance, where you know that the girl kisses...