What You Need to Know: Your Career Brand

What do you need to know to successfully build and position your career brand?

Companies spend tremendous amounts of money on advertising, brand management, product placement, sponsorships, and a whole host of strategies to build their brands. Careful thought is put into branding, and some of the world’s most successful companies are immediately recognizable worldwide as a result.

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How to Structure Your Staff for Success

 

Interim & Temporary Staffing Employment Up 6.8% from a Year Ago Employment data released in April by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that the staffing industry added 55,100 new jobs (up 2.2%) from February to March of this year. From March 2012 to March 2013, the number of staffing employees increased by 6.8%.

Overall employment growth was mostly driven by new job creation in professional and business services (+51,000) and health care (+23,000) with job losses focused in retail (-4,000) and government (-12,000).

Interestingly, a staggering 40% of employment growth in professional and business services was driven by new jobs created in the interim and temporary staffing industry.

“It continues to be a very strong employment market for Accounting and Finance professionals – CPAs and MBAs – with strong experience in public accounting and Fortune 1000 companies,” says Ron Blair, Managing Director of Century Group Professionals.

“The shortage of qualified Accounting, Finance, Tax and Audit professionals has many clients asking us for help executing interim roles and completing key projects.”

The overall U.S. unemployment rate edged down from 7.7% in February to 7.6% in March

Investment Bankers Spend Their Recession

So How Should an Investment Banker Spend Their Recession?

There was a time when investment banking was a career path representing prestige and respect. After the effects of 2001 with the tech bubble bursting and the tragic impact of 9/11 we believed the worst had happened for the industry. In the years that followed we continued to build careers with the expectation of continued prosperity until this current credit crisis, after which we are now questioning what’s next. The immediate thought is to just get another job, easy enough. Another option would be to take some time off and ride out the storm. Although that sounds ideal, is it really a viable option? With the demise of the most highly respected investment banks in 2008, what can we expect for 2009? The media has prepared us for the worst predicting no jobs in investment banking for the foreseeable future. With all the negative press and talk of a severe recession what lies ahead for most bankers? The good news is that you have options.

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