With commencement season just around the corner, it’s a good time for Ph.D. students to remember that you too will enter the workforce. To help you figure out your next step, a new interactive infographic allows you to explore the Ph.D. employment landscape over the past 20 years. The tool allows users to slice and dice the data based on various factors, including discipline, so tailor the information to you and find your fit.
Overall, by the time Ph.D. holders are 10 to 14 years out of grad sc
My picks: HispanicPro celebration and Cinco de Mayo parade in Little Village
By Claudia Urbano, Chicago Urbanite
It has been a while since I last posted, but I am back to tell you where to celebrate the next big holiday in the Chicago. On May 5, Chicago and other cities in the United States celebrate Cinco de Mayo. This is a holiday that celebrates Mexican culture. My recommendation is to network and socialize with a great organization that will be hosting a huge Mexican-American celebration i
Successful entrepreneurs know that networking is not a numbers game. It’s not about how many business cards you pass out or collect. It’s not about how many products you can sell or whom you can instantly impress, exploit or schmooze to get what you want.
Proper networking is a gradual process of making genuine connections with people and cultivating those relationships for the long term. READ MORE AT ENTREPRENEUR
This year, the AHAA Annual Conference will tackle the hottest topics in marketing today: technology, disruption, culture, creativity and content. From June 12 to 14 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, AHAA will bring together experts and trendsetters to discuss how powerful U.S. Hispanics are to brands, how disruption and innovation is changing the way we consume content, and how marketers must adapt, ensuring efforts be free of stereotypes and inclusive of the multicultural community.
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Hispanics in the U.S. are increasingly concerned about bad financial times ahead for their personal finances as well as the U.S. economy as a whole, according to a new national consumer sentiment index conducted by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative (FAU BEPI) in the College of Business. READ MORE AT CPA PRACTICE ADVISOR
Spring feels like it’s finally arrived — but has your next job offer?
If you’ve been slinging resumes for the past few months with no success, take these simple steps now to bring some of that spring cleaning spirit to refresh your job search. If you plant the seeds of growth now and tend to your job search diligently, the right offers will bloom for you soon. READ MORE
Which websites do US Hispanics prefer? What activities do these sites allow them to do? Does gender play a role when it comes to choosing online media? Read on for the answers to these questions, drawn from comScore’s February 2016 ranking. READ MORE AT PORTADA
Multicultural marketing has created a marketing economy based on segmenting the population by ethnicity. While ethnicity segmentation has worked for the past several decades, as I pointed out in an earlier column, that foundation is starting to crack. Our industry is experiencing a paradigm shift. As we attempt to make sense of this existential crisis of marketing models, we should consider how we segment and why. READ MORE AT MEDIAPOST
People over 50 have a hard time finding a job. I know because I am one of them. Employers assume that we’re going to retire at any time and leave them in the lurch or that we don’t know how to use a computer. In one interview, an employer said to me, “You know you have to know how to use a computer,” even though my resumé states that I have computer skills.
Older workers not only bring job experience to the workplace but also life experience. READ MORE AT NEWSDAY
There is a big reason why marketers have spent the last five years obsessed with Millennials — the numbers. Millennials total 75.4 million and have overtaken Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation. The business community is also starting to pay attention to the next generation, Gen Z. This group of people under the age of 20 is already almost as large as Millennials. Millennials and Gen Z combine to make up more than 50% of the entire U.S. population. The future is now.
The youth movement
It's been nearly 10 years since this country was hit with a recession, the likes of which we hadn't seen for decades. Businesses across the country were closing their doors and unemployment soared. This bleak situation was sharply magnified among Latinos, which reported a 66 percent drop in wealth and a 13 percent unemployment rate.
Yet during this bleak period, Latino entrepreneurs created new businesses at a startling rate. READ MORE AT CNBC
Latinos, the nation’s largest minority group, comprise 17 percent of the United States population. And that number continues to rise steadily. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050 nearly one-third of the nation’s population will be Latino.
But Latinos are woefully underrepresented in many professions, particularly in healthcare. Fewer than five percent of registered nurses are Latino, according to the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In cont
Ten years ago finding a new job was a straightforward process.
These days job-hunting is complex. Few schools teach students how to find a job when they graduate.
It is absurd that a kid could spend four years in high school and four in college and never be taught the steps in a job search -- but that is the reality. READ MORE AT FORBES
Last month, Amazon quietly rolled out a Spanish-language version of Amazon.com and in turn, helped dispel the myth that because Hispanics are young and the majority are U.S. born, there is no reason to communicate with them in Spanish.
Amazon’s statement is clear: Marketing to Spanish-preferring online Hispanics makes good business sense.
As a data-driven, consumer-first company, Amazon undoubtedly assessed the Spanish-language e-commerce opportunity rigorously and likely found that there is a
Despite new recruiting technology and systems, we will always have to interview with at least one person before we secure a job. No resume or robot can replace an in-person conversation between a candidate and a hiring manager.
After the economic recession of 2008, companies have been slower to hire and the interview process has been extended from an average of 13 to 23 days. The good news for job seekers is that the economy has rebounded and they can be more confident when it comes to negotiat
Neatly tucked away in just-released data provided by the Motion Picture Association of America is this revelation: While overall 2016 box office attendance remained flat, the number of Latinos going to the movies remains on the increase.
Latinos remain over-represented among frequent moviegoers relative to their overall percentage in the US population. Their attendance has been trending upward for years: from 2015 to 2016 it grew from 7.9 million to 8.3 million (its all-time high was 11.6 milli
The unemployment rates for teenagers, Hispanics and people without high school diplomas fell sharply in March, though not always for positive reasons.
The teenage jobless rate fell to 13.7 percent, the lowest level since May 2001. The drop occurred because 16- to 19-year olds found jobs, likely at entry-level employers such as restaurants, which added nearly 22,000 jobs last month.
For Hispanic and Latino workers, unemployment fell to a 10-year-low of 5.1 percent. More Hispanics began looking f
Searching for a new job can be a full-time job, It's a thankless, tiring -- and, yes, depressing task. Searching for roles, filling out applications, networking, tailoring endless versions of your resume to each potential job, interviewing, handling rejections -- the entire process can be so overwhelming and can leave you feeling unwanted, dejected and sad.
"It's understandable; with the loss of a job, many people feel like they've lost control. And, in many cases, they've lost something that t
Given the many critical functions that lawyers play in our democratic society, the legal profession is one of the most influential and must be as diverse as the population it serves. Our society is founded on the rule of law, including governing, legislating, advocating, prosecuting, and adjudicating functions at all levels of the public sector, as well as running corporations, law firms and nonprofit organizations in the private sector.
Under-representation of certain segments negatively affec
By now, we know all about the dangers of “fake news,” but there’s another form of false information, the concept of “fake trends,” that marketers should be aware of since these can have a negative impact on business strategies. We are witnessing one of them right now when it comes to Hispanic marketing.
The “fake trend” goes like this: Since the Hispanic population growth in the U.S. has been shifting from immigration-based to U.S.-born-based, the need to reach out to this segment from a market
