Word: white-collar
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...from down the block: Baber: Again, two-thirds to three-quarters of white-collar jobs are found through networking. For a neighbor, you can introduce him to different people and get his resume to different companies that he would have never had a chance to find on his own. Ask about what he?s done in the past and about what kind of jobs he?s interested in, so you can go through your Rolodex and see if there are contacts that he might benefit from meeting. Also, if you?ve ever lost a job, tell him. Misery loves company...
...enthusiastic reception in Asia shouldn't surprise him. In the late 1970s, white-collar Asians in the region's booming economies sought out new sounds to grace their suddenly affordable turntables and cassette players. Older listeners, bored with rock, began to trade up to West Coast jazz fusion - a connoisseur's form that mingled jazz, pop, R&B and funk, setting store above all on sheen and virtuosity. Although derided by jazz traditionalists, the genre had an exotic sophistication to middle-class Asian ears - and Jarreau was its house vocalist, his marvel of a voice swooping out of the speakers...
...saves money for the airline. The main reason: Barbados data processors are paid $2.20 an hour, much less than the $9 that American used to pay its U.S. keypunch operators to do the same work. American Airlines is one of a growing number of U.S. firms that are transferring white-collar work to Barbados, Jamaica and other locales abroad. Statistics on the trend are hard to come by, especially since many U.S. firms are eager to conceal the increasing extent of their foreign data-processing, engineering and computer activities. According to Harley Shaiken, a professor of information technology...
Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich has written about living as a low-wage worker (Nickel and Dimed) and looking for a white-collar job (Bait and Switch). She spoke recently with TIME's Jeremy Caplan about her new book, This Land is Your Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, a collection of emotionally charged essays...
Where will Israel go? Well, he could follow the path of fellow white-collar criminal Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, who has been openly living in Namibia for two years while the United States wages a slow battle to have him extradited...