You’ve probably heard of white-collar, blue-collar, and maybe even pink-collar jobs. Now there’s a new color associated with jobs: green. Any job that focuses on the environment, sustainability, or social responsibility may be classified as a green job or green-collar job. These jobs can be found in a variety of industries, including manufacturing and agriculture….
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New Year's Resolutions for College Students
New Year’s resolutions are easy to make, but hard to keep. Instead of making the same resolutions you make every year, resolve to prepare for your career and improve your grades with a few important steps. Find Your Best Career(s) Career planning should be important to every college student, but many don’t consider their career…
When Your Dream Career is Dying
With changes in technology and culture come shifts in career trends. Some of the jobs that exist today will be obsolete in a few decades, while many future jobs don’t exist yet. Entire industries die and new ones develop. This is all good news if you’ve identified a good career in an up-and-coming field. But…
Work Makes Me Nervous: New Book Tackles Job Anxiety
Work-related anxiety can lead to a host of problems, including decreased productivity, lowered, job satisfaction, job loss, and health problems. Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed, a new book released today, aims to eliminate anxiety in the workplace. I interviewed authors Jonathan Berent and Amy Lemley about the causes…
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards
Intrinsic and extrinsic rewards should both be considered when choosing a career or deciding to accept a job offer, but special importance should be placed on intrinsic rewards. Intrinsic rewards appeal to one’s values, interests and personality. An intrinsically rewarding job will be satisfying in its own right. Career tests can help identify those careers…