10 Most Stressful Jobs Of 2012
Jan 1, 2012 Career Tips Leave a comment
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.
TimesJobs dons a new ‘Avatar’
Dec 30, 2011 Job Reviews Leave a comment | Tags: New, New ‘avatar’
This New Year, TimesJobs strives to take your career to new heights of success. In this endeavor, we don a new avatar that will enhance and optimize your job search experience to the fullest.
The new Home Page of TimesJobs.com is clean, user-friendly and absolutely utile. Plus, it also introduces some excellent features to ensure you get the best jobs with minimum efforts and in lesser time.
Highlights of the new features are below –
1. Unlike our old look, the new Home Page of TimesJobs.com flaunts the ‘User Log-in Form’ on the top right hand side. The f
Reagan’s Union Busting in PATCO Strike Reverberates Today
Dec 17, 2011 Career News Leave a comment
Jim Morin was a former Air Force air traffic controller when he joined the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1977 and was assigned to one of the busiest airports in the nation, New York’s LaGuardia, where he became secretary-treasurer of the PATCO local.
But even as air traffic was growing and the air traffic control system was working at near capacity, the FAA was cutting staffing numbers and forcing controllers to work longer hours, especially in the spring and summer when thunderstorms would back planes up across the country.
We’d get hammered. So many planes and so few places to put them. It just wore you down, especially if you worked swing shift [3-11 p.m.]. The
University of Michigan ranks 14th in tech transfer revenue
Dec 16, 2011 Career Tips Leave a comment | Tags: Tech Transfer, Transfer
Higher Education, Investment, Technology Ann Arbor Tech transfer has become big business for universities, adding millions to a schools bottom line. Michigan had only one school crack the Top 20. Looks like our other institutions might want to take a look at what the top ten are doing that theyre not. “2010 was a bit of a bounce-back year for U.S. technology transfer programs, as licensing income inched up 3 percent to $2.4 billion, compared with the prior year. Still, that level of licensing income was a far cry from the halcyon days of 2008, when technology transfer programs reported $3.4 billion in licensing income, according to the latest annual survey from the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). 2 Full Article…