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...Even as these hiring professionals slog through the recession, they are increasingly optimistic about 2010. Two-thirds of companies that have imposed hiring freezes expect to lift them next year, according to a new survey conducted by global HR consulting firm Watson Wyatt. "Things have started to stabilize," says Watson Wyatt executive Laura Sejen, summarizing HR survey responses. "The outlook is fairly promising...
...Three quarters of the HR leaders who responded to the Watson Wyatt survey expect their business to improve by the end of this year. There's some good news on the salary front, too. A new survey from Mercer, a global HR consulting firm, found that average base salary has actually risen over the past year by an average of 3%. Mercer's compensation survey covered about a million workers at some 1,000 firms across various industries. Among HR administrators at firms that have frozen salaries, 69% expect such freezes to end over the next 12 months...
...columnist for the Sunday Times in London, Shane Watson has spent countless hours detailing her experiences as a woman in this era of Botox, butt lifts and ill-advised miniskirts. In her new book, How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved, she traces her transition from a happy, middle-aged single woman to a happily married one. Watson spoke to TIME from her home in London.(See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...hard was it to write the screenplay for David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men? Zach Watson COLUMBUS, OHIO...
...concentration’s women missed out on a camaraderie shared by the men. In some classes, there were three or four girls in a class of over 200. McNeal’s thesis adviser, Carroll Williams, regularly held afternoon teas often frequented by noted scientists such as James Watson. However McNeal, as the resident female, was always in charge of making the tea for the others. Though McNeal thought she could find employment in the sciences, almost no recruiters visited Radcliffe’s campus. “They would come to Harvard, but we didn?...