An estimated 55 million Hispanics live in the U.S., approximately 17% of the country’s population, according to the Census Bureau. Further, there are more than four million Hispanic-owned businesses throughout the U.S., and their revenues have climbed to more than $660 billion, according to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. In fact, Hispanic entrepreneurs have been starting businesses at a pace 15 times the national average over the last decade. READ MORE AT FORBES
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In 2012, I was working in the Park Avenue offices of BlackRock, investing in hedge funds. I managed a great, diverse team of people, and every day I got to chat with the most successful investors in the world.
But I felt an itch. I wanted to learn about a new industry. I wanted to be more creative. I wanted to tweet using my real name, and break out of my rotation of the same five Brooks Brothers slim-fit shirts.
Here’s where you might expect to hear about my big epiphany... READ MORE AT QUARTZ
Law school enrollment has decreased each year since 2010, according to numbers from the American Bar Association (ABA). That was the all-time high with more than 147,000 students at the 204 ABA-approved schools. But, there’s an interesting trend taking place amid this overall student reduction: more minority students are being admitted and attending law school.
Hispanics are applying to law school less frequently than in 2010, along with all other groups. The change is that more Hispanics and o
September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. This is a good opportunity to reflect on the progress Latinas have made in the workplace. Compared to previous generations, today’s Latinas tend to be more educated, empowered, independent and comfortable putting themselves at the center of life decisions.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the workplace, where Latinas are making extraordinary advancements.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Latinas’ share of the labor forc
Growing up as a fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, freckled girl with ethnic hair, people around me struggled with identifying my race, nationality, and ethnicity. Too many times, I have found myself correcting my peers, colleagues and friends on who or “what” they think I am. Time and time again, I’ve had to explain that being Latino is more of a cultural identification than just merely a racial marker. We identify ourselves based on countries of origin throughout Latin America. READ MORE
Perhaps you’ve been told this. It’s similar to that other simplistic slogan: “Do what you love and the money will follow.”
The biggest problem with these extremely popular pieces of advice is that they make the process of choosing and building a career look easy. Just follow your bliss, as the saying goes, and your life will fall into place as if by magic.
The fact is, however, that finding meaningful work that reflects our interests, values, responsibilities and, yes, pas
Mayra Navarro’s bank closed her account after a series of overdrafts. She wasn’t eligible to open another bank account because she had been blacklisted by ChexSystems, an agency that tracks consumers’ banking histories. Like many unbanked Hispanics, she turned to prepaid debit cards, check cashing services and money orders, which all came with fees.
“I felt like I had failed at life and lost all control,” says Navarro, an executive assistant in California.
She’s not alone. Recent data by the Fed
It makes sense for advertisers to target Hispanics, considering the continual growth of the segment.
But there is another advantage in focusing on the Hispanic audience: They’re great at passing along word of mouth brand endorsements.
That’s according to a study from Keller Fay Group, which looked at brand mentions per week over the course of a year.
It found the general public made an average of 62 brand mentions per week, both online and offline. That number was 58 per week for non-Hispanics.
Read feature guest biographies of the 2016 Fall Banking and Finance Networking Forum next Wednesday October 19 at the Dana Hotel and Spa Chicago.
Moderator
Nora Renteria, TV Host, Un Nuevo Amanecer, as featured on Telemundo Chicago
Nora Renteria is a professional Operational Risk manager at BMO Harris with more than a 10 years in corporate financial. She is a TV co-host for “Un Nuevo Amanecer” on Telemundo, as well as an author of “Today’s Inspired Latina” and public speaker at schools and corpo
If you sit at your desk, stare out the window, and wish for a job that actually makes you happy, then it may be time to move your career in a new direction. This is especially true if you've been at it for a few years and find that nothing ever gets better. While we all occasionally get stuck in a bad gig for money's sake, life is simply too short to spend your working hours doing something you find boring, tedious, or unfulfilling.
This is true long-term jobs, but it also applies to new jobs t
If you’re not working with Hispanic clients, you’re missing a huge market, as they remain one of the fastest growing homebuying demographics.
However, if you’re not Hispanic yourself, there are a few things you might want to know before you dive in. Below are some tips from the top two winners of NAHREP’s Top 250 award, Mario Negron, owner/broker associate, RE/MAX Prestige in Houston, Texas, and Claudia Restrepo, of Keller Williams Realty The Legacy Group in Spokane, Wash.
Don’t forget to liste
Jorge Gutierrez had a degree in business and a passion to own a company. His wife, Erika Gutierrez, had a degree and after working her way to the top position at an early child learning company was at a crossroads — continue as director or open her own school.
The Schererville couple chose the entrepreneurial route, joining a growing number of Hispanics in Indiana and across the country in owning their own businesses. READ MORE AT CHICAGO TRIBUNE
ABC 7 CHICAGO will highlight the rich culture and traditions of Chicago’s Hispanic community during Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15. ABC 7 will celebrate Chicago’s diverse community with special news reports; the broadcast of the The 26th Street Mexican Independence Day Parade; a half-hour edition of THE Ñ BEAT; a series of vignettes and special segment on ABC 7’s Windy City LIVE featuring a Latino Fashion Week fashion show.
The 26th Street Mexican Independence Day Parade, sp
Janeth Barrera Cantu has spent most of her 18 years living in a cramped trailer in rural North Carolina with her three siblings and parents. Eight years ago, her father was deported to Mexico, where he was shot and killed, a crime that remains unsolved. For several years afterward, her mother, Maria, was left as the sole breadwinner for the family of five.
The trailer is just down the road from Hickory, a town Reader’s Digest named one of the 10 best places in America to raise a family and that
A new GenForward survey finds more young blacks and Latinos feel that they can't depend on family to help financially than do whites or Asians. That includes big-ticket items like college tuition as well as smaller expenses.
More than half of millennials of all races and ethnicities think an unexpected bill of $1000 would cause them financial difficulty. Nearly two-thirds of whites and Asian-Americans say their families could help them cover that expense, compared to 46 percent of Hispanics and
Are you a recent college graduate? Or is your career stuck in a low gear? I’ll bet you’ve been receiving a lot of career advice from your family and friends. All well intentioned, I’m sure.
So I’m going to give you some career advice that, most likely, no one has told you yet — and that you might not want to hear. But if your goal is to climb the proverbial career ladder, then you should keep reading.
Your career is YOUR responsibility. That’s right, your responsibility. READ MORE AT THE SEATTL
With less than two months to go before voters head to the polls to elect our next president, our nation’s political parties, candidates and deep-pocketed donors are once again throwing around significant amounts of money to get the outcome they desire this November. Money is flowing everywhere, it seems, except toward the changes that will ensure Latino voters turn out not just for this election, but for the next one and the one after that.
NALEO Educational Fund projects that more than 13.1 mi
The U.S. Hispanic population may be the fastest growing ethnic segment in the country, but according to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study, it is also one of the most misunderstood, with a large portion of younger viewers in the demographic watching shows on multiple devices and preferring English-language content.
Hispanics currently number about 55 million residents in the U.S. and are and expected to grow to one-third of the entire country by 2060.
In its recent report – Always Connected:
Introversion can be a limiting character trait in the hustle-and-bustle of job-seeking. Getting a job is all about ‘who you know’ rather than ‘what you know’, which makes it very hard for those who don’t exude effervescent confidence.
At some point you will have to suck it up and dive headfirst into an opportunity but until then, there are ways to still network without being the person to walk up to a higher-up at a party and introduce yourself.
The fact of the matter is that there is an overwh
Every year during Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) we recognize the contributions made and the presence of Hispanics in the U.S. However, your PR and marketing efforts should not be focused around this one month celebration but instead should continue year round. Here are 10 reasons why:
Fifty percent of the U.S. population growth from 2010 to 2015 came from Hispanics and now stands at 57 million, making it the nation’s second fastest growing group. The U.S. Census expects this
