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...uptick comes as the broader U.S. economy shows signs of recovery following last year’s devastating financial crisis, but the figure still marks a drop from 2007, when 73.2 percent of such graduates had finalized employment plans by the time they left the Yard...
Recent years have seen an uptick in activity at the University surrounding global health...
Rebekah Getman, the program manager for the Harvard Initiative for Global Health, points to the launch of the General Education program as fostering an “uptick in student interest” in the field...
Companies are often eager for the extra set of hands. Michael Schmidt, an employment attorney in New York City, has seen an uptick in recent months in private employers calling him to find out if they can bring in unpaid interns as a way to cut costs. His answer: volunteering at for-profit companies is, legally, a no-no. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has spelled out several criteria with the goal of ensuring that internships not only provide real training but also can't be used by companies to displace regular employees. (See 10 ways your job will...
...continue to remain curious about the uptick,” he said. “We’ll see if the numbers bear out much differently than in previous years...