Walt Disney Co., Lockheed Martin, and Deloitte & Touche are three best companies for new college graduates to launch a career, according to a ranking by BusinessWeek magazine.
The average MBA graduate's starting base salary has climbed to more than $92,000, according to research by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).
If students graduating from college in May are as fortunate as those who graduated a year ago, they'll be pleasantly surprised when they go out job-hunting this summer.
Twenty-five percent of advertising and marketing executives say they would very likely extend a counteroffer if a high-performing employee quit to accept a more lucrative position, according to a survey by the Creative Group, a staffing firm.
Forty-four percent of employers in the United States are having difficulty filling positions because of a lack of qualified talent, according to a survey by Manpower, Inc.
Eighty percent of manufacturers say they are experiencing a shortage of qualified workers, according to a survey released by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute, and Deloitte Consulting LLP.
More than half (51 percent) of hiring managers plan to increase salaries on initial offers for new employees in 2006, according to a survey by CareerBuilder.com and America Online.
"We're all ticked off." That's how writer Keith Hammonds
describes employees' attitude toward HR. Hammonds recently vented his irritation
in a story titled "Why We Hate HR" for Fast Company, which
appeared, to much uproar, in the August 2005 issue.
