I had an early morning flight out of Panama, to Miami and then connecting to come back across the US to Oregon. So it was definitely going to be a long day. As we were wrapping up class on Thursday, my conversations turned to my trip home, and my students assured me that I wanted…
Imagine that you’re looking at your company-issued smartphone and you notice an e-mail from LinkedIn: “These companies are looking for candidates like you!” You aren’t necessarily searching for a job, but you’re always open to opportunities, so out of curiosity, you click on the link. A few minutes later your boss appears at your desk….
Popular cloud storage firm Dropbox has been hacked, with over 68m users’ email addresses and passwords dumped on to the internet. The attack took place during 2012. At the time Dropbox reported a collection of user’s email addresses had been stolen. It did not report that passwords had been stolen as well. Go to Dropbox….
Statistics show that if you accept a counter offer, there is a ninety percent chance you will be out of the job within six months. There are twelve reasons in the article, but do you need more than this one? Go read it anyway. 😉 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-accept-counter-offer-here-why-lushia-van-buuren
As IBM’s Kuhn explained in a follow-up interview, these medical records can be leveraged for a wide variety of nefarious purposes. In some cases, it’s about stealing a person’s identity and billing them for a surgery or a prescription, and in others it’s about opening a new line of credit. Security researcher Avi Rubin told…
But a college education is not about job training—sorry, but it’s true. I’ve talked about the difference between college education and workforce development before—so let me just add one thought. How many jobs are there today that didn’t even exist 10 years ago? How do you train for a job that doesn’t exist? Someone should…