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Career Corner: The Top 10 Careers for Business Majors
A degree in business can open a lot of doors for you. Depending on your interests you could apply your education towards accounting, marketing, or a wide variety of other options. But you are probably looking at salary expectations to figure out your final decision. If that is the case, Stacker recently compiled the highest-paying…
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Career Corner: The Top 10 Careers for Engineering Majors
If you are looking for the most lucrative fields to get a degree in, many of the subcategories in engineering comprise some of the highest-paying positions right now. Engineering is a skill that lends itself to many areas, though, so it might just be whichever one intrigues you the most that you pursue. Courtesy of…
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Wiser Wealth: Current Rates are Making Private Credits Funds Appealing for Investors
Money can change hands very quickly with certain investment types, making many investors prefer the ability to enter and leave commitments with ease. However, private credit funds are finally offering enough value to make people look past the long-term commitments that come attached. Bloomberg shares more on the topic, elucidating how investments such as Blackstone…
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Philly Tech Trends: Four Tips to Improve Hybrid Learning
Even prior to the pandemic, hybrid learning had been growing in popularity. It provides convenient flexibility to students who might not be able to commit to being on campus every week. But it can also be a letdown if the virtual component is lacking. More teachers are trying to figure out how to improve their…
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Career Corner: Clever Career Platitudes May Not Be Correct or Fit Your Situation
If you have ever been at a career crossroads you have likely received some of the common career platitudes as advice. “Just follow your passion.” “Let your work speak for itself.” “It’s all about who you know.” But how true are sayings like that? Others were curious too and decided they wanted to find out.…
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Career Corner: Prepare Your Finances Before Joining the Great Resignation
We hear so much about ways to advance our careers and strive for new opportunities, but sometimes our careers don’t go according to plan and we need a break. There are many valid reasons to want to step away from working for a while, such as taking care of young children, tending to an ill…
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Career Corner: 10 Highest Paying Master’s Degree Jobs
If you are dissatisfied with your current position, career trajectory, boss, or salary, people in your circle may have recommended going back to school for your master’s degree. But education can accumulate debt in student loans that might deter people who worry the degree won’t make enough of a difference. That is why it is…
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Wiser Wealth: While Other Markets Struggle, the Art Market is Booming
You might assume that during times of widespread financial hardship leisurely enjoyments would be some of the first to be neglected. While that might have been true for restaurants and movie theaters, it is not at all true about the art world. According to the Wall Street Journal, the market for art is doing unbelievably…
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Career Corner: 7 Ways to Increase Your Productivity
If you have spent close to the last two years working from home, your job has likely been a lot quieter. But people who are now returning to the office are finding it tough to tune out all the extra activity again. Those distractions can make your productivity suffer. Regardless of your environment, if you…
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Philly Tech Trends: How Concerned Should You Be About Screens Violating Your Privacy?
In our digital world, screens are everywhere. But now people are worrying this technology might be getting used to secretly stealing information from ordinary citizens. Some might dismiss that as a conspiracy theory, but experts weigh in on whether that is likely or even possible. In a post for the AVNetwork, the site consulted with…
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Career Corner: How to Overcome Burnout as Life Returns to Normal
In August of this year alone, 4.3 million quit their jobs. The work conditions over the last 18 months have had so many people reaching their breaking point that it has now been dubbed the time of the “Great Resignation”. The incessant stress of the pandemic has pushed many already overworked people to their breaking…
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Career Corner: 10 Qualities of a Family-Friendly Workplace
Your priorities shift when you become a parent, and you have to forgo some things to be there for your kids. That even extends to work, where you will now need to ensure you have a job that is consistent and accommodating to make sure you can maintain your schedule as a parent. However, not…
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Career Corner: 2021 Report Says Women Only Earn 82 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by Men
Since 1963 our country has had the Equal Pay Act, which is supposed to ensure everyone is given the same wage for the same work regardless of their demographic. However, feminist leaders have long said that this law is not truly abided by, and that companies will offer lower salaries to women. Now new research…
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Wiser Wealth: WSJ – President’s Plan for Taxing the Rich Impacts Nation’s Highest Earners
When Donald Trump was president, he was heavily criticized for how little he paid in taxes. Trump, and fellow highly wealthy public figures, claimed they were merely savvy in utilizing tax loopholes. However, President Biden believes it is time for the rich to pay up. Proponents of tax breaks for the rich believe it contributes…
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Philly Tech Trends: Modernizing the Conference Room
Many people get comfortable in their routines, and that can lead to them becoming complacent when it comes time for necessary change. That is likely a contributing factor that led to many offices being caught off guard for being able to communicate with their workers virtually once the pandemic hit. Though some companies are pushing…
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Career Corner: 2021’s Top Paying Tech Careers
The pandemic has made many employees prioritize job security when deciding where they want to work so they don’t have to worry about layoffs again. Technology has always been an in-demand field and it has proven quite resilient from the economic hardships of Covid. Now many want to make the switch to tech. If you…
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Career Corner: LevelUp Philadelphia is Helping Frontline Workers Find Work During Labor Shortage
Though the worst of the economic harm from the pandemic is hopefully behind us, that does not mean the job market has fully recovered. Many businesses are still struggling on the brink of bankruptcy, and a lot of workers have not had it easy reintegrating into the workforce. Over 84,000 jobs that were lost in…
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Career Corner: 6 Hints It’s Time to Look for a New Job
If you have been dreading your workday lately then you have likely pondered whether the position has run its course. Quitting is a big deal, though, so you really need to be sure that’s what you want to do. If you are seriously wondering whether it is time to look for new work, first weigh…
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