Does it pay to recruit from -- or even go to -- a prestigious university? There have been a number of studies that follow the careers of students who attended elite universities and those who just missed the criteria for admission.
It looks like one plank of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill might actually pass Congress: a tax break for companies that hire unemployed veterans.
Water, water everywhere — and not a drop to drink. The U.S. labor pool has nearly 14 million unemployed workers, yet more small businesses complain about the dearth of qualified workers.
In this job market, you might expect that hiring new employees would be easy. But many entrepreneurs still struggle to find good people. In a recent survey of Inc. 5000 CEOs, hiring edged out even the economy and government regulation as their top concern, with nearly one-quarter of respondents identifying it as the biggest challenge they had faced in the preceding three months.
LYNN DOWLING BRUNO had never heard of the Wren’s Nest, a nonprofit organization that preserves the home of the writer Joel Chandler Harris. Ms. Bruno, 49, lives in Northern California. Wren’s Nest is in Atlanta. But when the opportunity arose to do volunteer work for the nonprofit this year, helping it raise its Internet profile, she jumped at it.