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When thinking about how today's financially-stressed African Americans can update the survival strategies of earlier generations of blacks, Dr. Cecilia A. Conrad keeps returning to the economic significance of the old-fashioned rent party.
Thanks in part to our technology-dependent lives and our country’s economic woes, the demand for graduates with an understanding of math, science, and engineering is exploding.
Job hunting is never easy, so it’s no wonder that so many professionals are even more frustrated with the process today. We all know that in these very competitive times crossing t’s and dotting i’s is important, but what else should you be conveying to make yourself more attractive to employers?
Randy Moss, widely known as the New England Patriots’ All-Pro wide receiver, hopes to gain the same notoriety in his new business venture. Last year Moss purchased a 50% share in Morgan-Dollar Motorsports and renamed it Randy Moss Motorsports. The team will compete in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
As massive job cuts have forced many companies to reorganize and reprioritize spending, the diversity budget is taking its share of hits across industries. Nearly half of the 452 respondents to a recent Society for Human Resource Management poll said their discretionary HR spending had decreased in the past year, and 39% said they had cut spending on training unrelated to the core business, including anti-harassment and diversity training. Ten percent of respondents said they had reduced spending on initiatives that targeted diversity recruitment, and 12% predicted that diversity-related recruitment efforts would be cut. “If diversity truly is a key strategic objective of a corporation, then it should be treated like any other key strategic initiative of the corporation,†says Joe Watson, CEO of StrategicHire, an executive search firm in Reston, Virginia, and author of Without Excuses: Unleash the Power of Diversity to Build Your Business (St. Martin’s Press; $24.95). “That is a test in many ways to show whether a company’s rhetoric matches its reality.†We’ve looked at two companies that are working to continue efforts to make diversity a business imperative to grow their bottom lines.
