The creative challenge: Repurposing shopping malls
Feb 11, 2012 Career Tips
Development, Parks, Retail, Shopping Yeah, its cool that the Rustbelt Market moved into an abandoned Old Navy but how about a creative movement to revitalize shopping malls and strips? From golf to community farms to dog parks, cities around the country are getting creative with empty big box spaces. “Even at many malls that continue to thrive, developers are redesigning them as town squares — adding elements like dog parks and putting greens, creating street grids that go through the malls, and restoring natural elements like creeks that were originally paved over. “Basically they’re building the downtowns that the suburbs never had,” along with reworking abandoned urban malls for nonshopping uses, said Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor at the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.” Read the rest here. Give u Full Article…
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From graduate scheme to first female controller of BBC One
Feb 5, 2012 Career Tips
Lorraine Heggessey says her career has benefited from the BBC’s work to tackle diversity
Diversity does not simply happen, it takes time and effort for organisations to break down barriers that people may not even be aware are there, and enable people from all walks of life to have the same chance of success. Similarly, those in the minority must take charge of their careers and make sure they build the networks and contacts they need to succeed.
My career has benefited from the BBC’s work to tackle diversity. I was taken onto the graduate scheme at a time when the BBC was making conscious efforts to widen its talent pool beyond the male Oxbridge candidates that had typically dominated the field.
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4 Most Rewarding Designer Careers Path
Jan 13, 2012 Career Tips
It is easy to believe that designers just sit around and draw art all day. A minority of them do. But most commercial designers do not just sit around and draw art all day. In general, they take instructions from their clients or bosses before they draft out ideas. Once their ideas are rendered, they are presented to the client. The finished products are seen in our everyday lives.
Want to know where to find designer careers in everyday life? Picture this: you are at a bus stop. You turn to your right and you see an advertisement of an airbrushed athlete wearing running shoes. A career woman standing beside it is decked out in Armani suit, fiddling with her diamond wedding ring.
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10 Most Stressful Jobs Of 2012
Jan 1, 2012 Career Tips
For many Americans, stress is an integral part of work. Whether caused by looming deadlines, balancing demands of job and family, or a career that routinely involves risks to life and limb, stress can both help us do our jobs better — by keeping us on our toes — and take a toll on our overall health by putting us at increased risk for disease.
Not surprisingly, some of the most stressful jobs involve protecting others from harm, according to a survey by CareerCast.com, a job-search website.