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by Vault Careers|July 17, 2014
If you were interviewing someone who couldn't make eye contact,
would you give them the job? Probably not. I got the same answer
from a colleague who works in Human Resources, who's had the power
to hire (or to say thanks but no thanks) to many hundreds of
applicants. Although poor eye contact might just be due to nerves
or shyness - and completely understandable in an interview
situation-it's something you need to tackle if you think it may be
holding you back.
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by Phil Stott|July 10, 2014
A cautionary tale out of Washington for those of you who can't wait
to get your hands on some legal marijuana: one of the first people
ever to legally buy pot in the Evergreen State has been fired by
his employer, after being spotted on the news purchasing his bud.
Mike Boyer, a 30-year old security guard and committed pursuer of
altered states of mind, made history when he became the first legal
buyer of pot in his hometown of Spokane, Wash.
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by Vault Careers|July 03, 2014
The dating app Tinder, often touted as female-friendly, may have
done more than create a blaze of hook-ups, relationships and broken
hearts for its users. The cooling of passions between two of the
app's co-founders and other alleged bad behavior by Tinder
co-founders may have resulted in discrimination, sexual harassment
and a host of other labor and employment law violations.
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by Derek Loosvelt|July 03, 2014
Your top career-related news of the week: Tinder's misogynistic
side.It's not exactly news that Silicon Valley is about as female
friendly as a Wall Street trading floor. But a sexual harassment
suit brought by a former Tinder executive is shedding a ton of
fluorescent light onto the extent of the chauvinism and misogyny
that occurs behind start-up closed doors (and on tech firm
employees' Instagram accounts).
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by Derek Loosvelt|June 25, 2014
This past Monday, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.,
President Obama met with several big swinging CEOs in a roundtable
discussion to talk about ways to make the American workplace better
for working families. The discussion was part of the first annual
White House Summit on Working Families, and among the roundtable
participants in attendance were Shake Shack's Randy Garutti,
Johnson & Johnson's Alex Gorsky, PwC's Bob Moritz, and Goldman
Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein.
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by Phil Stott|June 16, 2014
If your employer was a team at the World Cup, which one would they
be? Those of us who follow the beautiful game closely know that the
difference in style between the favorites for the tournament are as
pronounced as the cultures of top firms the world over.
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by Derek Loosvelt|May 30, 2014
A former Goldman Sachs banker helps bring Beats to Apple.Behind
every big M&A deal is a big M&A Wall Street banker. And
Apple's acquisition of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine's Beats Electronics
is no exception. Adrian Perica-who joined Apple in 2009 and who is
an alumnus of West Point, MIT, Deloitte, and Goldman Sachs-is the
former Wall Street banker who helped put Apple and Beats together.
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by Derek Loosvelt|May 14, 2014
With the proliferation of the virtual marketplace and crowdfunding
sources, it's not surprising to learn that today it's easier than
ever to start a business and get it funded. It's also not
surprising that since there are more new businesses than ever,
there are more failed businesses than ever, too. But what is
surprising (at least to me) is that studies show that failure
doesn't equal learning experience in the startup world.
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by Nicole Weber|May 09, 2014
According to a new study released by Ancestry.com, it's South
Dakota, where 79.9 percent of mothers work outside the home
according to the latest Census figures. And it's been that way for
the past 30 years. But in 1930 South Dakota had the lowest number
of working moms per capita. What accounts for the change? Today,
South Dakota actually has one of the lowest unemployment rates in
the U.S. According to an Ancestry.
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by Vault Careers|May 02, 2014
Last year, the Equal Pay Act signed by John F. Kennedy turned 50
years old. The Act was designed to create a society where women
were as valued as men in the workforce and to remove barriers that
caused discrimination. Because of that Act, when discussing
equality in the workplace, 1963 is widely considered the beginning
of establishing a fair playing field for women in the workforce.
However, the problem was not a new one in the early '60s.
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