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by Vault Careers|February 26, 2015
Don't take this personally, but no matter the career path you've
chosen, your skills are quickly becoming obsolete. With the speed
at which technology is advancing and the business landscape is
changing, new skills are becoming in demand at a lightning-fast
pace. Ten years ago, could you have imagined getting hired as a
social media manager or a Node.js programmer? Not likely-these job
titles and the skills associated with them didn't even exist.
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by Phil Stott|February 26, 2015
The issues of equal rights and pay for women in the workplace have
been making headlines in recent weeks, along with the related issue
of parental leave and benefits.
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by Derek Loosvelt|February 25, 2015
Last Thursday night at Joe's Pub in New York, Jon Stewart appeared
on the live talk show Employee of the Month. The show is also a
regular podcast and is hosted by Catie Lazarus, who put Stewart
through a 45-minute exit interview of sorts.
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by Nicole Weber|February 24, 2015
The 87th annual Academy Awards were full of the usual glitz and
glamor, but an evening of impassioned speeches and inspiring
personalities offered words of wisdom even for us laypeople
watching at home. The Oscars is a night in which Hollywood
celebrates itself, so sometimes it's easy to forget that behind the
bright lights and spectacle are thousands of hard-working
professionals.
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by Nicole Weber|February 18, 2015
Things are looking up for the future of associate compensation
following the 2014 bonus announcements, which started with Simpson
Thacher raising the bar from past years and continued with most big
firms following suit. (Or in the case of Davis Polk, upping
Simpson's ante and setting the bar even higher). This is good news
in the sense that associates can really feel rewarded for putting
in 2000+ billables per year.
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by Deborah Grayson Riegel|February 17, 2015
Planning your next big presentation can be as simple as A. B. C. D.
E. What do I mean by that? In this video, I explain the five things
that you need to keep in mind (scroll down for the transcript):
Planning your next big presentation can be as simple as A.
B. C. D. E. What do I mean by that? Here are the five things that
you need to keep in mind: A stands for Affective: How do I want my
audience to feel while I'm presenting to them and after I've left
the room?
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by Derek Loosvelt|February 17, 2015
New York is in the middle of an employment boom. Since the
financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the city has added close to half
a million jobs. And nearly every sector has been adding jobs but
one: Wall Street. Once the core of the Big Apple, Wall Street has
soured as a career destination among the young and old alike. The
events of the crisis tarnished its reputation among
jobseekers-perhaps for a generation or two (or longer).
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by Phil Stott|February 13, 2015
Maybe it's the office hopping lifestyle? When it comes to office
romance, consultants are one of the most permissive groups of
employees around. Just 1% of consultants who took our office
romance survey indicated that they thought romances between
coworkers were never acceptable, while 31% claim that any kind of
office fling is acceptable-even those between bosses and
subordinates.
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by Derek Loosvelt|February 11, 2015
In the past week, the New York Times published two articles on
international internships. One about the rise of unpaid internships
overseas that can cost students several thousand dollars and that
seem to be very attractive to students who can afford them. And a
second about a young woman who took an internship in La Paz and who
writes, "Opportunities can turn into opportunities for disaster
when students blindly leap into situations in foreign countries.
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by Vault Careers|February 11, 2015
Another year, another sign that office romances are gradually
becoming more and more acceptable in workplaces throughout the
United States. Indeed, the most striking statistic from this year's
Vault Office Romance survey is that just 5 percent of respondents
believe that no office romances are appropriate, down from 9
percent in 2011.
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