What if you were to get a promotion or were being transferred but couldn’t sell your home? Many employees are facing this issue and are reluctant to relocate. Some companies are trying to tend to their employees needs by opening offices closer to the person, or by offering incentives such as giving the job provider a raise to cover their home-sale losses. Some companies are even allowing their employees to telecommute to work. Job providers are having to find new methods of hiring to lure employees to new locations.
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The Challenges of Relocating
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Asking for a Raise During Bleak Times
Monday, November 15th, 2010By this point, most people who still have jobs are grateful to have not been laid off and would not even fathom stepping up and asking for a raise during a time of such uncertainty. However, economists say that times are improving slowly but surely and it’s likely if you have not been laid off, you are not going to be.
CNN Money’s article, “Make Money in 2011: Your Job” says that companies are most likely going to hold off on hiring new employees and will focus on strengthening their current employees. The article offers action plans on how to talk to your boss about being promoted or asking for a salary raise. Click here to read the action plans and advice on how to set yourself apart and prove that you are valuable to your company.
The Backbone of the Company
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Many people would read “the backbone of the company” and assume that it’s referring to a CEO. However, the employees with the lower and middle-level jobs are often the ones who are the real backbone of the company and are the glue that holds everyone together. Boston.com’s article “I Run this Place–Workers Make Top Places Tick” ten workday employees talk about their jobs and how they keep the workplace moving. These “behind the scenes” employees take pride in what they do and are clearly passionate about the people they work for, the community and the customers. Do you think these employees are doing work that matters?
Jobs and Taxes
Friday, February 5th, 2010Will the Obama notion of a tax credit for creating jobs work?
Stimulus Report
Monday, November 2nd, 2009The Obama administration reports that its stimulus efforts have generated 640,000 jobs already. Did you get one?
Jobs by Geography
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009If you’re willing to move to get a new gig, think Lincoln, Neb., not Flint, Mich. A look at the jobs picture, market by market.
Willing to Relocate?
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009For anyone who missed it over the weekend, President Obama’s top economic adviser tried to dial back the enthusiasm over a few economic reports that didn’t actually portend the end of financial times, saying that we still had a long way to go before the arrow on the graph turned north. But if you’re willing to move, re-establishing yourself in one of these cities might help you find a new job faster.
Gotta Work.
Friday, December 12th, 2008We need to support ourselves and our families. Still, working only for the sake of working is rarely worth it. Even in hard times, we think about what kind of work matters to our country, to our world, and to our souls. From building staff to administrative support to pounding nails to professional degrees, it’s not the job description that matters. It’s knowing we’re contributing to something important.
TruCorps won’t change popular culture or the economy. But we can match job and career seekers with organizations and job providers with missions that matter.
Setting aside, assuming that’s possible, the innate need to provide for our families, what work really matters? Is a teacher really worth less than a Ferrari salesman? Is someone committed to public service really less valuable than a Madison Avenue ad executive? Does working in hospital matter more than playing professional baseball?
These kinds of comparisons are probably too easy. Though I like to see the occasional baseball game, appreciate and respond to a decent ad and guess it’d be cool to drive a sports car, none of it really matters does it? Especially as a relative matter. Teacher over outfielder? Nurse over rock star? Almost anyone over Wall Street greedsters? Sure. But how does it apply to you and me?
Surely, plenty of us have wasted or will probably waste big chunks of our lives – and others – by doing meaningless work. Beyond a necessary paycheck, contributing to no one or nothing. All the Zoloft and Prozac in the world might change the we feel about it, but it won’t change the reality: we have to “do” something – it won’t just come to us; we have to “work” for it – it’s not easy; and we should do something that “matters.”