Will there be jobs for the Class of 2009?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 1.4 million college educated individuals will enter the labor force this year. Unemployment is at its highest level in 16 years and is likely to increase. So will a college degree alone get you a job in a brutal economy?Dr. Robert Reid, Dean of the Business School at James Madison University, notified an alumni audience last week that recruitment visits on campus are scheduled to be down 40% this semester. He added this is the worst job market for graduating seniors he has ever seen in his career.Two years ago, USA Today reported that helicopter parents were extending their

Does Information Addiction Hurt Your Chances of Getting Hired?

A 2005 study, funded by Hewlett-Packard, and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London, discovered that Workers distracted by e-mails and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers. This is one of the statistics that seems to stick with my audience when I present the impact of our modern addiction to electronic multi-tasking. So fast forward four years...and throw in Blackberry messaging, Facebook news feeds and snowball requests, Tweets, and Diggs (to name just a few social networking applications).If we were really stoned 4 years ago, where are we today? And